Willie Pep and other defensive Wizards of our time

Anybody ever seen the full Buchanan=Paduano bout?I have a copy but it isn't the full bout.

 

over here (Britain) they showed afew rounds afew months ago on TV

 

Defense is the art of boxing in the truest sense. When ignoramuses deride boxing as primitive I always tell them to watch the defensive masters, the ones who didn't get hit. The greats were pure genius, artists.

 

To someone who once said to me that boxing was "just two guys trying to knock each other's brains out" and other equally stupid things, I replied that boxing, in it's truest sense was the art of hitting without being hit..true artistry, and since I was at work, with access to the internet, I showed him a video of the great defensive masters, and to my surprise, this guy was singing a different tune afterwards, saying that he had never seen anything like (Pep and Locche)...I agreed that slugging was the "yin" to the defensive boxer's "yang", (getting into Chinese philosophy a bit), and that it was just as much a part of the sport as defensive boxing, and probably appealed to the casual sports fan and the beginner more, but that the more you got into boxing, it was quite possible that an appreciation of the artistic side of the sport could be developed. Not trying to "sell" boxing to the "unwashed", but all the same I hate the stupid stuff that these detractors of boxing say about the sport, and I wanted to show him how full of **** he was.