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Obviously, I forgot the L in the title thread. I find no way to correct it.
A slick boxer who boxes your ears off like MW or Pep then suddenly KO's you with one punch.
Fiction, right? Doesn't happen, right? One can point to a stray counter example here and there. Benitez's KO of Maurice Harris, or did I get the last name wrong, would be a good stray counter example.
This has lot to do with living off the back foot and always being on the move in the ring. These fighters are usually not set to throw the hardest punch.
But what one notices is that even when they are set they do not know how to punch. Chris Byrd, Nico Locche, MW himself, Jimmy Young, Whitaker and hundreds of others like them simply cannot punch hard even when they try. Even Ali was but a medium puncher.
Slick boxing is mostly a defensive game. Slick boxers are often not set, but in general they cannot punch anyway, which might have influenced their decision to become slick boxers. Maybe I have the chicken and the egg mixed up. Maybe these guys' propensity for slick boxing came first and interfered with the ability to throw a hard shot. Gavilan himself was barely a medium puncher.
Career counter examples are rare, if barely existant. Jersey Joe is one of the few actual slick boxers who could punch your lights out with either mitt.
You can be slick at attacking a la Robinson, but that does not make you the kind of slick defensive boxer I am talking a bout.
RJJ is not a good example, since his slick boxing was mainly to confined to jumping in from halfway across the ring, throwing a punch and jumping back out of reach.
Hopkins is a slick boxer on the other hand and not much of a puncher to go with it. He is not feather-fisted, however, but a medium puncher, just barely.
One might even say De La Hoya was a fairly slick boxer who could punch, at least with one hand. Lennox Lewis is not a great example either.
I guess there are a lot of reasons slick boxers overwhelmingly cannot punch. What are they?
A slick boxer who boxes your ears off like MW or Pep then suddenly KO's you with one punch.
Fiction, right? Doesn't happen, right? One can point to a stray counter example here and there. Benitez's KO of Maurice Harris, or did I get the last name wrong, would be a good stray counter example.
This has lot to do with living off the back foot and always being on the move in the ring. These fighters are usually not set to throw the hardest punch.
But what one notices is that even when they are set they do not know how to punch. Chris Byrd, Nico Locche, MW himself, Jimmy Young, Whitaker and hundreds of others like them simply cannot punch hard even when they try. Even Ali was but a medium puncher.
Slick boxing is mostly a defensive game. Slick boxers are often not set, but in general they cannot punch anyway, which might have influenced their decision to become slick boxers. Maybe I have the chicken and the egg mixed up. Maybe these guys' propensity for slick boxing came first and interfered with the ability to throw a hard shot. Gavilan himself was barely a medium puncher.
Career counter examples are rare, if barely existant. Jersey Joe is one of the few actual slick boxers who could punch your lights out with either mitt.
You can be slick at attacking a la Robinson, but that does not make you the kind of slick defensive boxer I am talking a bout.
RJJ is not a good example, since his slick boxing was mainly to confined to jumping in from halfway across the ring, throwing a punch and jumping back out of reach.
Hopkins is a slick boxer on the other hand and not much of a puncher to go with it. He is not feather-fisted, however, but a medium puncher, just barely.
One might even say De La Hoya was a fairly slick boxer who could punch, at least with one hand. Lennox Lewis is not a great example either.
I guess there are a lot of reasons slick boxers overwhelmingly cannot punch. What are they?
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