All Time Great Fighters Who Just Cound't Handle A Certain Fighters Style?

[Southpaw16BF]

Well.....

Name some All Time Great Fighters, who just cound't handle a certain fighters style, and could just never get to grips with it/him.

Even do, he was a greater fighter than the fellow fighter and even if he may of won in the fight, but still struggled.

Here's a few......

-Ken Norton to Muhhamad Ali
-Frankie Randall to Julio Cesar Chavez
-Iran Barkley to Thomas Hearns
-Junior Jones to Marco Antonio Barrera
-Chucho Castillo To Ruben Olivares
-Ray Mercer To Lennox Lewis
-Wilfredo Rivera To Pernell Whitaker

Get Thinking........

[joe strong]

joe Frazier had problems with foreman & mosely vs vernon Forrest

[joe strong]

add Roy jones vs tarver(I thought tarver won or at worst had a draw with rjj the first fight).Forrest vs mayorga...Forrest I guess isn't an alltime great.

[Southpaw16BF]

Mosley vs Forrest
Tarver vs Jones Jr
Forrest vs Mayorga

Are great picks........

[Takamura!!!]

joe Frazier had problems with foreman & mosely vs vernon Forrest

Yea, Frazier's tendency to take a few punches in order to give them put him in a spot of trouble against Foreman

[mickey malone]

Sandy Saddler to Willie Pep
Iran Barkley to Thomas Hearns
Ray Leonard to Roberto Duran
Gene Tunney to Jack Dempsey
Willie Meehan to Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills to Sam Langford
Jim Corbett to John L Sullivan
Sonny Liston to Floyd Patterson
Muhammad Ali to Sonny Liston
Ken Norton to Muhammad Ali
Bernard Hopkins to Felix Trinidad

Arguments could be made for DLH JCC and Paul Pender SRR, but in fairness, both Chavez and Robinson were past their primes..

[J23]

Pryor to Arguello
Hearns to Duran
Wright to Mosley

[EzzardFan]

Nobody who fought Harry Grebb could handle his style.

[JAB5239]

Nobody who fought Harry Grebb could handle his style.

Besides Tunney who went 3-1-1 with him and Kid Norfolk.

[EzzardFan]

Besides Tunney who went 3-1-1 with him and Kid Norfolk.

Greb was blind in one eye in all of those fights. The decision in Grebb vs Tunny II is somewhat disputed. Many people think that Grebb won 3 of those fights. It wasn't really until their fifth and final fight that Tunny had Grebb sussed (something that Grebb Acknowledged. But it should be taken into account that Tunny outweighed Grebb by 15lbs.

Grebb was probably past it by the time he fought Kid Norfolk, he's clocked up over 300 fights by that time. Kid Norfolk was a great fighter though.

I think if you look at how many fights Grebb had, how many opponents were involved, the vast disparity of styles and weights... then Grebb was the hardest opponent for anyone to get to grips with. Nobody ever fought like him before or since. He was utterly unique.