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name the fastest fighters in the traditional weight classes
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Fly - ????
Bantam - Tim Austin
Feather - Gamboa(for total speed. Pacquiao and others have faster hands)
Light - Camacho
Welter - This one is tough all the fastest guys come from lower weights
Middle - RJJ
Light Heavy - RJJ
Heavy - Ali
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Originally posted by billeau2 View Posta lot of you have mentioned Camacho (does my heart good). Any opinions on prince Naseem? I never watched enough of his fights, I always got the sense he was aping Camacho actually....
i wouldn't call hamed a deviant speedster as much as i'd call him a deviant powerpuncher. he hit like a much, much bigger man. his speed was more appropriate for the weight.
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Originally posted by billeau2 View PostYes....I wanted to mention guys not already mentioned, i.e. obviously Ali was incredibly fast and quick....Ruiz has extremely fast hands. Actually so does Telefio Stephenson.
he's got fast hands, but i think they're made to look more spectacularly fast by the crap opponents, and the fact that he's giggling all over the place. you just don't expect him to throw combinations with speed when he looks like that.
i wouldn't say he's that fast, though. he's also a bit of an arm puncher by the look of things.
i haven't gone through that much of his tape (four fights or so on youtube, and obviously the hammer fight.) evidently he was around 3 bills when he debuted
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Originally posted by Sugarj View PostIn terms of sheer hand speed I'm sure that he was found to have a faster left. Its a very close call on the combination front too.
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It depends what you mean by fastest. Do you mean speed of foot or hand, or the two combined?
Anyway… I will give it a go with fighters that haven’t been mentioned yet:
112 - Jung-Koo Chang, Chan-Hee Park, Hiroyuki Ebihara
118 - Takao Sakurai, Lionel Rose, Miguel Lora, Fighting Harada
126 - Jose Legra, Ernesto Marcel
135 - Roberto Duran, Howard Davis Jr
147 - Donald Curry
160 - Ronnie Harris
Just to clarify in case anyone wonder - the reason I have Duran in is because of his excellent footspeed.
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