fastest fighters of all time?

[marciano1952]

Willie Pep

[clarkhillfitnes]

Willie Pep was one of the fastest boxers of all time, if not the fastest!

https://www.clarkhillfitness.com

[wpink1]

As an ameteur I say Leonard, he hand speed and combinations, etc..Roy nor Mayweather nor Taylor could touch the 1976 olympics version of Leonard in the category of speed.

As a professional, I personally thought Roy Jones was the fastest I have ever seen. At middleweight he was faster than Leonard was at welter, However even thought Roy had power, he rarely committed to his punches like Leonard learned to do under Dundee and thus slowed from his days as a olympian.

From what Leonrad and everyone has said, Taylor's combinations were faster than Leonards as a professional, but he could not knock you out like Leonard could with any individual punch in the combination. Camacho was super fast, and Mayweather and Roy's counters where that the fastest I have ever seen.

Roy never did weights until Ruiz. I am not sure what specific training methods they ever did to build on speed. You may want to emaikl John Scully, as he knows Leonard personally, and he knows the game and all the training strategies that goes on.

[Fidayin]

Nah, Roy Jones never did weights. i think he only did them for the Ruiz fight so he could move up in weight.. otherwise he would build the muscle as naturally as possible (pressups, situps, jumprope etc..)

all great fighters never or rarely used weights

explain me the science why pressups,situps and jumprope are natural and weightlifting isn't.

[BG_Knocc_Out]

explain me the science why pressups,situps and jumprope are natural and weightlifting isn't.

Those mentioned like push ups, situps, etc, seem to be more about keeping in shape and lifting weights as to get bigger. But I don't know much, I just do what my trainer tells me to do, no questions asked.

[them_apples]

weights are good for boxing, bodybuilding is not

[Brunswick Assassin]

- Floyd Patterson
- Ike Williams
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Jack Dempsey
- Mickey Walker
- Ali
- James Toney
- Harry Greb
- Meldrick Taylor

[Dambala]

Sugar Ray Leonard
Roy Jones Jr.
Meldrick Taylor
Floyd Mayweather
Naz
Shane Mosley
Zab Judah
Oscar De La Hoya
Ivan Calderon
Willie Pep

[Dynamite76]

Howard Davis Jr
Ray Leonard
Bernard Taylor
Roy Jones Jr
Sugar Ray Robinson
Hector Camacho
Muhammad Ali
Floyd Patterson
Greg Page
Michael Dokes.

[joseph5620]

[QUOTE=wpink1;3841600]As an ameteur I say Leonard, he hand speed and combinations, etc..Roy nor Mayweather nor Taylor could touch the 1976 olympics version of Leonard in the category of speed.

As a professional, I personally thought Roy Jones was the fastest I have ever seen. At middleweight he was faster than Leonard was at welter, However even thought Roy had power, he rarely committed to his punches like Leonard learned to do under Dundee and thus slowed from his days as a olympian.


I don't agree with that. Jones punched very hard at 160 and 168 to the body and the head. I didn't notice any loss of speed either.