mayorga is such hype. just a lucky brawler guy with an awkward if not weak style. it's only his crazy attitude that intimidates people. all people gotta do is just catch him with a straight shot when he gets reckless with those wide looping shot.
i think judah is still immature. fools around a little too much. decent skills and speed and power but need to be more serious. i think his training would suffer because he is too cocky
i dont think judah was winning at the time. if you look at the whole fight, tszyu was VERY cautious, he did nothing but paw his left hand in the air while waiting for a good chance to throw the right. if you notice, he throws his right hand maybe a total of 6-7 times and when he does, he commits to it and really tries to connect as opposed to just letting pass by and letting it be a wasted shot.
pacman...barrera...mayweather...tszyu...mayorga...trinidad...morales
if this was a couple years ago, you could've added....gatti, klitschko, corrales, freitas
The song Trinidad came out to against Hopkins.
If any of you guys know the name of the song I'll owe you my life......or 5 dollars. You pick.
i think i know the song! britney spears - do something
judah was definitely not ready. shaky legs means his body won't be able to run away or fight back efffectively. your punches wont be hard if you dont have your legs solidly planted behind them. judah didn't feel hurt because he had his adrenaline still running from when he nailed tszyu really well in the first round. i think in the 2nd round both were looking to establish respect, with tszyu trying to get judah back, and judah was pumped up looking for an early knockout and that made him more stiff and took the punch harder.
hatton has never failed a big test. so for that much, we can trust that he will put a decent effort. as far as who wins? i would say tszyu... tszyu is comfortable fighting forward or backward and does not run from his opponents. tszyu has dangerous power and accuracy while hatton is known for keeping a high work rate. I think both will collide and an early fight will happen. I do pick tszyu to win simply because of his experience against elite opposition
miguel cotto uses it alot. i think the left hook also needs to be carefully timed so that you aren't countered when you throw it. It's hard to setup, and then difficult again to perform. But if it connects, it also opens your opponent to headshots. Personally, I think it must be used in a combo. You can't just wing it out of nowhere. You use it during a firefight and commit enough to it, or else your opponent wont feel it and he'll hit you in the head right as you're recovering that arm.
i think it's important to state how large were the amounts of steroids found in his blood. and to check the levels in the next couple of weeks to see how they drop
true, i do think the morales pacquiaou was between 2 top-notch A-level fighters and there was alot more drama and hype being played into it. i dont think arce VS hussein was all that good because it was a little one-sided with hussein being very passive hoping for arce's cut to get worse.
boxing today is not as popular anymore. not too many people boxing because not too many can afford to watch it and keep up with it, and therefore because they dont have the true appreciation for it...they dont' box. every now and then people will buy a punching bag thinknig they know what to do but not much else.
bute, andrade, and lacy
Talent-wise, Bute is at the top of the pack. I don't know how anyone can miss that. He's got a ton of movement and fast hands. He's outboxing everyone and he does it with a very short arm reach. Please watch ALL his fights, not just the tough scraps. Andrade gets hit a lot but he does have a lot of defensive skills (he drops his hands so he can see everything and then flicks his head to deflect punches). It's his offensive repetitiveness and slow hand speed that hurts him during fights. Other than that, he's got an amazing chin and beats his opponents down "homer style". Hahaha. Jeff Lacy
Speed - Bute's got the most speed. Lacy & Andrade rank at the bottom.
Power - Bute has the most. Lacy's got the least. Lacy is a friggen PUSH-puncher. Sure he's knocked out a lot of guys but not prime ones. He doesn't sting when he punches because he's got far too much muscle. He moves slow and he isn't very agile. The moment they put him in against a slick mover like Calzaghe, he lost flat out. Now he's 30 years old but fights like he's 40. Win or lose, Andrade never stops coming!
Hopkins lost
Joe Calzaghe beat Bernard Hopkins. It's as simple as that. You can call the punches slapping all you want but I am 100% sure that those punches hurt. Kessler was noticeably hurt by the punches and many other fighters were hit just as bad by the punches. For those who say the Calzaghe only slapped, let me ask you this: IF Hopkins wasn't hurt by Calzaghe's punches, then why did he run the entire fight? Against De La Hoya, Tarver, and Wright, Bernard Hopkins came forward. Against Eastman, Taylor, and Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins ran away. Coincidence? I think not. After all, Calzaghe's a come forward fighter, wouldn't it make sense to back Calzaghe up?
The truth is that Calzaghe fought a perfect fight. Calzaghe was clearly the smaller fighter but he made the best of it by backing Hopkins with shorter, more compact, fewer, but more accurate punches. Believe it or not, that's how you beat a speed fighter. You don't try to counter from the outside where his hand-speed beats you all night. You get close and throw numerous short punches to disrupt his game. Hopkins was moving all night and Calzaghe treated him like a speedbag, not a heavy bag. It was a VERY smart fight and Hopkins was clearly disturbed. Hopkins waited all night to counter and never really got the chance because Calzaghe threw very few big punches. The right hand in the first round caught Calzaghe as his balance was slipped up. Hopkins cleverly leaned into him and threw a PUSH-punch as Calzaghe was standing square. It was clearly a slip and you can see it if you watch the fight again. Hopkins' best punch was the right hand at the end of the round that froze Calzaghe for a second.
Hopkins knew he lost the fight. It's sad that he can't fight like a man anymore. While he's certainly physically capable, his overblown ego won't let him behave like a gentleman. The white boy comment might have been to sell fights or cause psychological damage, but his bad acting job on the two low blows seriously damaged his image in my eyes. Hopkins held during the entire fight and used every opportunity to throw illegal punches and "cheat" when things didn't go his way. This is something that I've said before and I'll say it again. It was very possible that Hopkins would be arrogant by thinking he had the fight won and not give any extra effort to ensure that the round was his. He made this mistake before against Taylor and he did it again. What the hell did he expect?
Bute & Andrade beats Lacy easily.
I don't think that Highly of Bute,.. bet a used up Jeff Lacy would beat him and Andrade on the same night,.. Taylor and Kessler would be a good match,.. Dirrell and Andre Ward are knocking on the door,.. would like to see Dzinziruk vs Paul Williams at Jr Middle.
Sorry brownsugar7, I'll have to disagree with you on the comment about Bute, Andrade and Lacy. Bute is a very high-level boxer with a ton of speed and slick movement. He's just like Calzaghe but with shorter arms and more durable hands. The muscle-bound Lacy won't be able to handle his speed and that's for sure.
As for Andrade, I've trained at the gym alongside that guy and seen him spar many many times. To make things short, Andrade will have no problems with Lacy's style. Lacy is a slow puncher, and slow mover that doesn't punch fast enough. Andrade may look crude in the ring but he's actually pretty clever. He has an excellent chin and non-stop pressure. Lacy sucks at fighting on his backfoot and he also won't be able to throw enough punches to keep Andrade away. Only fast-handed/quick-footed fighters like Kessler & Bute have been able to beat Andrade. (Again, Lacy has slow hands and even slower feet.) If they ever fight, Andrade will easily outhustle Lacy and outpunch him.
I'm not too sure about that.
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Calling this a 'push' is a bit of a stretch as well.
Watch hopkin's left hand in the knockdown. He eases the off-balance joe to the canvas.
As for the stupid clip... I can show you 100 clips of hopkins running away. Facts are facts. If Hopkins wasn't hurt, he would've gone forward. Simple as that.
cotto was relaxed
Cotto performs best as a relaxed fighter. Don't be fooled by the "slow" movement. He stays relaxed and subtle and then quickly pounces with power punches. If Cotto was really that slow, why is it that everybody keeps getting hit by his punches? The punches look slow because he's not moving his entire body and twitching when he throws - again, he stays relaxed and only the arm moves as the body leans in a bit.
As for the Jennings fight, it proved nothing. Cotto beat him just as easily as he beat Gomez. Jennings was running the entire fight like an amateur and only looking to score "touch-punches".
Joe calzaghe is damn good!
I don't understand why everyone's knocking on Joe Calzaghe. He's always been an exciting fighter - Always moving forward and dropping his hands and putting on a show when he doesn't have to. In his younger days, he was knocking out everyone. Now he's got hand problems (very common among hard punchers) AND STILL CONTINUES TO FIGHT AND WIN.
The biggest reasons why Calzaghe didn't fight all those guys is because they won't travel to his hometown and/or because he knows they aren't worth the fight. I honestly don't see anything from Pavlik that would give him a chance against Calzaghe. He has no footwork and no head movement. He's great at blocking normal punches and pivoting around but that's it.
You have to give the Calzaghe some credit, everyone he beat (whether or not they were truly that good), he beat them when they were ranked very high. Who cares if he gets a tomato can mandatory every now and then. EVERY boxer does this sooner or later. You can't call ALL his opponents bums when they were prime contenders before he humiliated them.
Even after Joe Calzaghe beat his opponents, there are a handful of his victims that still went on to win title belts. Look at Floyd Mayweather's last 10 opponents and only about 2 have gone on to win legitimate titles. When was the last time Mayweather fought a DANGEROUS young up & comer in his last 10 fights? Look at Hopkins, this guy is a light heavyweight who stays in shape and has been picking on smaller guys throughout his whole career! He sure as hell didn't GROW to light-heavyweight at age forty-something. He's a normal light-heavyweight!
And please, STFU about Calzaghe barely beating Hopkins. NOBODY has come close to cleanly beating Hopkins. Even SUPERMAN ROY JONES JR in his prime only won by a few points. Hopkins is a great in his own right and is still able to fight at a very high level.
For what it's worth, Calzaghe is far more entertaining to watch than HOPKINS, MAYWEATHER, TARVER, and some of those other "safety-first" fighters that we keep seeing on PPV. All you haters don't know jack crap about boxing and will learn anything because you're too busy being a hater. I suggest you go watch Calzaghe's fights and count his number of control attempts VS his opponents' and then come back and make a solid argument. They're going to put him in the Hall-Of-Fame for what he achieved (which is more than just being undefeated).