Graceful Fighters All

**pinkpanther** · 10-26-2004, 05:22 AM

you have to look at the likes of Sugar Ray Lenord, Arron 'the hawk' Pryor and more recently Floyd Mayweather Jnr

**J !** · 10-26-2004, 05:37 AM

yip both the sugar rays in full flight were a thing of beauty, Im openly biased but Lennox when he was letting his combinations go was nothing short of awesome to watch, the ko of Botha and Tyson were just heavweight poetry.

Tommy hearns whipping in those combinations could be impressive to watch also. (sotry I keep ****ing on about him but Ive been watching a lot of dvds on tommy lately, I forgot how awesome he was). What an era that was!

Peenell whitaker, floyd mayweather, also nice to watch form a defensive perspective. Ali goes without saying.

**JOM'S** · 10-26-2004, 07:28 AM

I love Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard & Tommy the hitman Hearns, just like yesterday I was cheering them on during their fights, as a kid Ali was the first boxer I ever cheered for....

And I could never forget how the Aaron "the hawk" Pryor demolished one of my favorites Alexis Arguello...

**jabsRstiff** · 10-26-2004, 07:38 AM

Aaron Pryor......GRACEFUL ?

Not at all.

He was perpetual motion.....& could contort his body, punch off of angles, unlike just about any fighter I've seen.

But "graceful" ?

Nah....saw him off-balance too many times....running into shots....getting floored by DuJuan Johnson, Akio Kameda, Antonio Cervantes.

**LuKahnLi** · 10-26-2004, 07:42 AM

Graceful fighters.

Jabs, that footage you showed of Orlando Canizales taking apart Kelvin Seabrooks was beautiful.

Willie Pep, from what I have seen. Robinson of course.

**cple** · 10-26-2004, 11:14 AM

Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles
Wilfred Benitez
Ray Robinson
Ray Leonard

**JOM'S** · 10-26-2004, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by jabsRstiff

Aaron Pryor......GRACEFUL ?

Not at all.

He was perpetual motion.....& could contort his body, punch off of angles, unlike just about any fighter I've seen.

But "graceful" ?

Nah....saw him off-balance too many times....running into shots....getting floored by DuJuan Johnson, Akio Kameda, Antonio Cervantes.

as a kid I just saw the hawk fight against one of my favorite Arguello one or two times and it is forever etched in my memory, but its quite long time that I have seen it, to me then up to now its devastingly graceful, how will you rate Aaron performance in this one....

**jabsRstiff** · 10-26-2004, 11:25 AM

It was an amazing victory for Pryor.....in one of the greatest matches ever.

Pryor showed his versatilty.....storming Arguello early....boxing like a master in the middle...surviving some incredible punches....then storming through again for a classic finish.

An A+ performance, without a doubt.

**Great** · 10-26-2004, 11:39 AM

Actually Tyson 85-91 also may be 95-97 was very graceful fighter: you only look at his fast, exact and extremely entertainment movements; on his tremendous abilities...
To look at fights Muhammad Ali one pleasure. One of the most graceful fighters of all time.
Sugar Ray and Leonard, De La Hoya also always made upon me huge impression.

Graceful Fighters All