Best Fighter At Cutting Off The Ring

[PrettyBoyRoy 88]

Prime Mike Tyson.

[TheGreatA]

Frazier just marched forward relentlessly, knowin how to cut a ring off is a different ball game, Chavez took one or two steps and you were trapped!

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[hammerhiem]

being in the ring with prime Tyson must have been like being in a cage with a pissed off tiger, I vote for him.

[PittyPat]

Hatton, Tyson and Glen Johnson come to mind.

[Roger Mellie]

For me its JC Chavez

[Fox McCloud]

In his fights with Margarito and Mosley he was more effective to box them rather than to walk them down.

Against Jennings he was back to his pressure fighting ways although to be honest he didn't look at his best.

He pressures against limited competition (because they generally seem to be the ones trying to move away, and generally don't really have any power that he should be worried about), but he sticks to boxing against the good fighters I think.

[big paulie]

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Very good clip, not as affective as prime Chavez though

[TheGreatA]

Ali would probably not have invented the rope-a-dope had Foreman not been so good at cutting off the ring. Ali's plan going in was to dance and dance and dance.

You're right.

Ali said that for every step Foreman took, he had to take two or three which would've led to him being tired out in the later rounds (especially under the Zaire heat). So instead of dancing away from Big George, which at that time was close to impossible (I don't remember anyone beating prime Foreman by moving away from him), he chose to let Foreman tire himself out instead.

Ali, Young, Lyle and Peralta earlier in Foreman's career had success against him but none of them were truly able to use movement, all of them had their backs against the ropes and countered inbetween Foreman's wild punches.

When Foreman came back in his 40's, using a lot of movement was the key to beating him.

[Fox McCloud]

You're right.

Ali said that for every step Foreman took, he had to take two or three which would've led to him being tired out in the later rounds (especially under the Zaire heat). So instead of dancing away from Big George, which at that time was close to impossible (I don't remember anyone beating prime Foreman by moving away from him), he chose to let Foreman tire himself out instead.

Ali, Young, Lyle and Peralta earlier in Foreman's career had success against him but none of them were truly able to use movement, all of them had their backs against the ropes and countered inbetween Foreman's wild punches.

When Foreman came back in his 40's, using a lot of movement was the key to beating him.

Ali was a very, very smart man... that's a really brilliant gameplan.

[TheGreatA]

Ali was a very, very smart man... that's a really brilliant gameplan.

It wouldn't have worked if he hadn't been so tough though!

Ali used the same strategy against other opponents as well but it never worked as successfully since his opponents already knew what he was doing. For example against Ron Lyle he gave away a lot of the early rounds with Lyle simply outworking him without expending any energy and had to stage a late rally to TKO Lyle in order to win the fight.

I remember he used it against Frazier and Norton as well but they never seemed to run out of stamina.