If Toney and Pernell had such great defense, why do they slur so badly?

They probably took allot of punishment during sparring, your sparring partner trains everyday with you , he knows your style. So sparring partners usually hit you more then your opponent This here^^^^^^, Boxers get hit a lot in sparring too, Thats why its nice to fight get your money and leave with a clear health. No need to take too much punishment, I saw a Meidrick Taylor interview the other day and the guy could hard speak..Unbelievable.

Aww yea no doubt.. Its the Sam Peter fights which really did the damage imo. Especially the second fight

Toney's problems really come from his lack of conditioning in fights which would of had a negative impact on his reflexes and the fact that he had so many fights. 70 fights is a lot of fights to have. Aww yea no doubt..

even with the shoulder roll toney still got hit in his head alot wheter it was behind the head or anywhere he didnt protect his head with his shoulder as good as Floyd does..that my opinion on toney.. Toney's problems really come from his lack of conditioning in fights which would of had a negative impact on his reflexes and the fact that he had so many fights. 70 fights is a lot of fights to have.

even with the shoulder roll toney still got hit in his head alot wheter it was behind the head or anywhere he didnt protect his head with his shoulder as good as Floyd does..that my opinion on toney..

THe simple Answer is they dont have great Defense. Pernell cared more about Flash than function, and would just randomly bob and weave, sometimes even into punches. He was not better than Floyd. True defensive wizards dont slur: Willie Pep Floyd Jr Bhop Chris Byrd winky wright SRL RJJ Joe Calzaghe As of March 2006, Pep resided at a nursing home in Connecticut, suffering from Dementia pugilistica, before his death on November 23, 2006. He is buried in Rocky Hill, CT. He has two children: William "Billy" Papaleo and Mary Papaleo. Both reside in Wethersfield, CT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Pep

411Mania.com: Pernell Whitaker Interview from JayPea Gonzalez on Vimeo. cause they weren't cowards like floyd and they fought the best fighters around them

Get in the shower ur gonna get wet, get in the ring ur gonna get hit

You gotta count all the sparring as well. But remember sweet pea was a drug addict

THe simple Answer is they dont have great Defense. Pernell cared more about Flash than function, and would just randomly bob and weave, sometimes even into punches. He was not better than Floyd. True defensive wizards dont slur: Willie Pep Floyd Jr Bhop Chris Byrd winky wright SRL RJJ Joe Calzaghe

Carl Froch takes lots of shots and speaks the queens English. That must be the key to having a missus like that, because he didnt win her over with looks, thats for sure. Im gonna have to start watching his interviews and taking notes! http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz238/jayfurjay/girls/rachael_cordingley_118065_12.jpg

Different people react to taking punches differently. I think it just comes down to that.

Im sure they have spoken like that there entire careers. More than just boxing can give you slurred speech. Its like saying why are Oscar De La Hoya and the late Arturo Gatti so well spoken even though they have taken some decent beatings gatti definately talk different early in his career then later. you have to go listen to him. and pernell and james talk different then they used to.

Carl Froch takes lots of shots and speaks the queens English. froch is still very young.

Carl Froch takes lots of shots and speaks the queens English. Obviously then he's a lot better defensively then toney or whitaker.

Carl Froch takes lots of shots and speaks the queens English. It won't be like that in 10-15 years time if he keeps fighting with his hands down. The reason that Toney and Whitaker had bad speech is because they both stuck around for longer than they shouldve done. Toney took alot of punishment in his losses to Samuel Peter and Whitaker took alot of punishment in his loss to Trinidad. I think Pernell's condition has worsened due to his heavy drug abuse in the years since he retired. But I think what he took was more bad for him because he was a small guy who could proberbly have made 130. Instead he was fighting at 135, 140, 147 and even 154. Against much bigger opponents. It's the same with James Toney. But I do think that the defensive skills of both fighters were slightly overrated. They both got hit alot towards the end of their careers and even in their prime, they had tough fights. Your defence can be great but when your fighting elite competition, they are still going to land. Dave Tiberi landed over 400 punches against Toney in their fight according to compubox. And Pernell had close fights with Buddy McGirt, Wilfredo Rivera and Diosbelys Hurtado so they must have hit him a few times.

I mean Toney while being a defensive great also had over 80 fights plus all the sparring and so on and so forth. So I mean that just takes a toll no matter how great the defense

Im sure they have spoken like that there entire careers. More than just boxing can give you slurred speech. Its like saying why are Oscar De La Hoya and the late Arturo Gatti so well spoken even though they have taken some decent beatings

A one punch knockout is less worse then getting punched over and over again for 12 rounds becaue tommy hearns slurs really badly. and even young guys like litzau slurs badly.

They probably took allot of punishment during sparring, your sparring partner trains everyday with you , he knows your style. So sparring partners usually hit you more then your opponent what does more damage, a bad knockout or a lot of medium punches? tommy hearns took a couple bad knockouts and he slurs bad. pernell and toney took some medium punches but not that many. in some fights pernell almost did not get hit.