Winky Wright vs Ray Robinson

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  1. emallini

    emallini Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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  2. JLP 6

    JLP 6 Fighter/Puncher Full Member

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    Wright's best days are at 154. I would throw the welterweight Robinson in there with him who regularly fought 154 and 160.

    Wright best fight was when he just simply out-jabbed and embarassed Trinidad. Other than that Wright was a coulda been very good, solid pro with some good wins but nothing crazy.

    In Robinson day he would have been a good, solid contender who would have had to learn more than holding your arms close over you entire upper body as defense which slows up your own offense and makes you offensively predictable.

    OK, Robinson would have been jabbing away at that defense and keeping Wright on defense and also getting Wright's timing down. Wright was going to have to become the agressor at some point or just get swept on the cards. If he did decide to open up and try to make it a fight. I think we know that the artillery advantage would be heavy in Robbie's favor.

    It would take Wright about one round of exchanging with Robinson before he realized that he had no hope of winning that way and the best how he could have was trying not to get KO'ed hard.

    After that he would make it respectible, and by that I mean not get KO'ed, and he would lose with no need for a rematch.
     
  3. sugarkills

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    As a fight fan of 'Winky' Wright, I think he would've been knocked out by Robinson. Wright's strongest weapon was his jab, which alone is not going to keep Ray's larger arsenal of weapons away. Winky would also get outworked so he wouldn't be able to outpoint Ray either.