nah floyd was always feather fisted. a lot of his stoppages were corner stoppages like corrales, jesus chavez, and genaro hernandez. floyd was landing at will and any decent puncher would have knocked them out but they were still standing. it was more of an embarrassment from so many clean accurate punches than being hurt so they threw in the towel.
Regardless of his funny sounding name, Rosenbloom is a Hall of Famer and one of the Greatest Light Heavyweights ever. He had something like 299 fights, which is incredible.
But a 15-1 record and then retiring is a very short career! If he was technically brilliant, why did he retire before his career had really got started?
no he was not. maybe he was a corner stoppage artist but that's it. genaro hernandez, jesus chavez, corrales, augustus and gerena were all corner stoppages cause their guy was getting hit with flush punches over and over but weren't getting knocked out cause floyd has no power. he has a couple other stoppages but nothing great. he was an accurate puncher that didn't possess much power.
if you define knockout artist by just the number of stoppages someone collects then yea maybe you could define him as a knockout artist. then i guess calzaghe is a knockout artist too? i define knockout artist by someone who possesses great power and can end a fight with a couple punches at any time. floyd doesn't have that quality.
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