Who invented the Shoulder roll?

[The Noose]

George Chuvalo.

[NChristo]

George Chuvalo.

Like Toney and Mayweather, Chuvalo had his own but instead of using his shoulder to block he used his face.

[them_apples]

niccolino lochee used it a lot

[ModernTalking]

It all started by Rick. If you watch the full video you can see as Mayweather Sr. was imitating the sholder roll when he was a bar tender back in the day. He took the bar tender job as a coverup just to learn the sholder roll from Rick.

[Mikhnienko]

Good point, although I think there is an actual answer for the fighter who invented the jab.

To the Ts if you at George Benton, Archie Moore, Joe Walcott you can see them using some variation of the technique

Those are the guys Toney liked watching.

Toney pwns Floyd, especially in regards to the shoulder roll.

I'v seen Nikolai Korolev, a 1930's and 40's Soviet HW, use a shoulder roll. No doubt guys like Moore and Walcott weren't the first either.

I imagine old timer defensive wizards like Young Griffo used similar techniques long before TV was invented.

[etlux]

c'mon now guys....that's ridiculous......

it originated in the mid-west......my guess is philly.....since it is often called a philly shell.....or otherwise Michigan would be a good bet too..........it's obviously taught by the "old school legendary trainers" as floyd puts it in Michigan....you can actually see Roger Mayweather using it to great effect in his fight with Vinny Paz...in a similar, albeit less polished way to Floyd Jr..........it was taught to guys like Toney, Roger Mayweather, Big Floyd, Little Floyd etc....it's no coincidence the 2 current guys who use it are both from Michigan.......

check hooks, pull counters and all that stuff that requires great skills to execute is taught in the mid-west.......

philly is on the east coast not the mid west

[AntonTheMeh]

pea had his own as well. my guess is the modern version originated from philly, hence the name.

[DE100]