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MOST CONSECUTIVE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE DEFENSES 1. Joe Louis -- 25 2. Larry Holmes -- 19 (20 if you include the Marvis Frazier fight, which was unsanctioned by the IBF) 3. Wladimir Klitschko -- 15 (has 20 defenses in two title reigns) 4. Tommy Burns -- 11
Tough assignment for Julio Diaz, who's not busy enough to outhustle Keith Thurman and also not known as a puncher. Working behind a steady jab (7 of 33 landed per round), Thurman landed 47% of his power shots and has plenty of pop.
Both throw and land similar amount of total punches, but junior welterweight contender Lucas Matthysse has more pop and faced better opposition. John Molina's opponents (Lundy, Bey, Williams) landed 47% of their power shots. Matthysse can be touched too, as his last 4 opponents landed 40% of their power shots.
Jerry Belmontes is not a puncher, his best shot is to keep the fight at distance. WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa wants a phone booth fight- 90% of his landed punches were power shots.
Ageless wonder Bernard Hopkins outlanded novice Beibut Shumenov in each of the last nine rounds of their light heavyweight unification clash. The selective Hopkins landed 51% of his power punches and 46% of his jabs, averaging 32 punches thrown per round. Shumenov, who oddly trains himself (and his performance showed it), landed just 20% of his total punches and 20% of his power shots.
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IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter cut Paulie Malignaggi in round one, then dominated the next three frames. Porter outjabbed the jabber, landing 39% (27 of 70) to just 17 of 80 (21%) for Malignaggi. That jab setup the power shots, as Porter landed 50%
Bernard Hopkins throws well below wgt. class avg. and landed 41% of his power punches. Hopkins opponents landed 50% fewer punches vs. BHop than in their previous 4 fights and threw 41% fewer. Beibut Shumenov, making a huge step up in class, threw and landed above wgt. class avg. (vs. Kovacs, Ornelas, Santiago, Campillo I & II) and landed 42% of his power shots. Can the inexperienced Shumenov (he's fought 101 pro rounds- Hopkins 301 title fight rounds) put up those numbers vs. the master BHop?
Both Shawn Porter and Paulie Malignaggi throw and land a similar amount of total punches- but the breakdown of punches is significant. 66% of Porter's thrown punches are power shots, while 66% of Malignaggi's thrown punches are jabs. Translation: Porter will need to crowd Malignaggi and smother his jab, while the challenger will want to stay outside and box.
WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin threw and landed well below weight class average- but has the great equalizer- a hammer right hand. Quillin's opponents (Rosado, Guerrero, N'dam) landed 41% of their power punches. Lukas Konecny threw and landed above weight class average vs. Achour, Baysan, Dzinzurik), who landed just 20% of their total punches.