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Originally posted by El Cabron
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I was told that at times his footwork was compared to that of Sugar Ray Robinson's. Gomez was a talented guy but his accomplishments are somewhat covered up by his losses to Sanchez and Nelson as well as fighting in a division where all the talent was North or South of it. I wouldn't rate him as the best technical pressure fighter but he deserves a shout out at lest. -
I wouldn't rank him the best pressure fighter either, but he has an excellent resume and has to be looked at as one of the best punchers ever. LaPorte, Zarate, Pintor, Kobiashi.....those are some pretty solid names.Originally posted by mhager91490 View PostComment
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Not the best of all time but one of the best modern day pressure fighters that comes to mind is Mormeck. He gets in and chops people to bits in a very entertaining manner. He isn't the most talented fighter but he put a tremendous amount of pressure on the unlucky fellow he was in the ring against.Comment
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Us French are proud of Mormeck because of this very French characteristic of bravery. He was an underrated gem who would have beaten them all up in his prime!Originally posted by DeepSleep View PostComment
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Aaron Pryor?Comment
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pryor should be up there. he had a huge workrate, chin, solid technique, and unordinary stamina.Comment
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I still think Duran is the champ by a good mile or two.Comment
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among the ATG's, its Duran.....Duran.....DuranComment
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Some great views in here. I've always kind of agreed with BlackIrish about Duran's style. I've always thought of him as a much more aggressive version of someone like James Toney today. Mainly fights with a counter punching style on the inside using the other guys shots against him, but I also agree with GreatA that he was more of a straight up pressure fighter than Toney too, but they both used very similar fighting strategies but Toney would fight a little more from the outside and Duran would fight a little more on the inside.
Anyway, the second is pretty simple in my opinion. Leonard came in with a completely different fight plan than his usual style, which was how he fought in the first fight and Duran was also simply not in as good a shape as the first fight either so it works both ways.
Leonard may certainly have still won, but he had fought guys before that fought exactly the same as Leonard did in the second fight and never got so frustrated that he would have wanted to stop fighting. Go check out both Viruet fights. He uses mocking taunts, runs away, flicks out the jab, laughs at him.....everything Leonard did and even more, but in those fights Duran was much quicker than against Leonard and was actually able to slip most of Viruet's jabs and win all the exchanges. Unlike the first fight though, he wasn't nearly as quick with either hands, head or feet.
As Leonard also said, he was stronger than in the first fight and Duran was weaker than in the first fight. He was able to shove Duran off and move whereas he had great trouble doing that in the first fight.
Leonard has also said that in the first fight it took him quite a few rounds to shake off the effects of that left hook he got caught with, and normally he would have been quick enough to clear his head without someone ****ing away and trapping him hurting him more. Duran, unlike other opponents, didn't allow Leonard to reset. He jumped on him and went berserk and hammered his body non stop for the next few rounds at which point Leonard would have struggled to move with any consistency after that anyway.
Either way, Duran won the first and Leonard won the second ..... and third if that (a supermiddleweight 40 year old Duran) counts .... ?Comment
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