Fighters who are tailor made for other fighters

[Toney616]

Barkley, Pavlik, Glen Johnson:
Toney, Hopkins
Frazier, Tyson:
Foreman, Liston
Toney:
Jones
Ali:
Norton, Witherspoon

Can anyone here list any more?

[Vadrigar.]

Witherspoon? never heard of him.

[Toney616]

Witherspoon? never heard of him.

Terrible Tim Witherspoon was the man, you should check out his fight with holmes its on youtube. He fought out of a "crab" defense like Norton did

[Vadrigar.]

Terrible Tim Witherspoon was the man, you should check out his fight with holmes its on youtube. He fought out of a "crab" defense like Norton did

Interesting choice, I see where your getting at. The crab style did trouble Ali.

EDIT: Nortons identical twin. I only watched a few seconds, lol. Stopped watching at 2:43.

[Toney616]

Interesting choice, I see where your getting at. The crab style did trouble Ali.

EDIT: Nortons identical twin. I only watched a few seconds, lol. Stopped watching at 2:41.

Ali rarely went to the body, so a fighter fighting out of the "crab" defense would always give him fits, due to the fact that Ali would struggle to land his jabs and straight rights

[Vadrigar.]

Ali rarely went to the body, so a fighter fighting out of the "crab" defense would always give him fits, due to the fact that Ali would struggle to land his jabs and straight rights

I thought of my own.

Ken Norton:
George Foreman, Cleveland Williams, Sonny liston

[Toney616]

I thought of my own.

Ken Norton:
George Foreman, Cleveland Williams, Sonny liston

To beat guys like Foreman/Liston who have to have a fight style like a young Cassius Clay - a fighter with a good jab, great foot speed and fast reflexes.

Why do you think Williams is a bad style match up for him, Norton was good at defending against left hooks, it was right hooks that he had a problem with?

On the flip side I could see you point, he didn't really have very long arms, which meant that he would always had to step into the range of a big puncher to get off his shots. He carried his left arm low and didn't have the foot speed to get in and out on time.

[Vadrigar.]

To beat guys like Foreman/Liston who have to have a fight style like a young Cassius Clay - a fighter with a good jab, great foot speed and fast reflexes.

Why do you think Williams is a bad style match up for him?

Tall, fast heavy hitter, good counter puncher. Basically, any big hitter could give him trouble. Even the most limited of them; earnie shavers got to him. Cleveland Williams' skillset is better on top.

[Toney616]

Tall, fast heavy hitter, good counter puncher. Basically, any big hitter could give him trouble.

I just thought about that and had just finished reediting my original post, lol

[Vadrigar.]

I just thought about that and had just finished reediting my original post, lol

At 3:00 is a beauty:



Counter punching an 84' jab is quite impressive. Now what do you think would happen if that hit Nortons chin?