Fastest Welterweight Ever?

[Truth]

How about Sugar Ray Leonard?

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

Why is Roy being talked about? Granted he was very fast, but he was never a welterweight.

Fastest welterweight ever...hmm, that's though. Handspeed I'm going to go with Hearns. That's what made his KO's so deadly...never saw that right. His handspeed is underrated due to the attention his power gets. Ray Leonard and Robinson close behind. Hard to judge Ray Rob due to film. Perhaps he was faster.

[MikeHunt]

Who would you think was the welterweight with the fastest handspeed ever?

My vote would be for the one and only Thomas Hearns. Leonard you could say was faster, but Hearns had one of the quickest jab's I've ever seen. Match that up with the best right hand in the history of boxing and you have a great, great fighter.

Thomas Hearns? The fastest hands for a Welterweight.... ever?

[onetwopunch]

Sugar Ray Leonard hands down.

[SugaShane]

yeah Sugar Ray Leonard had the fastest hands I've ever seen but Hearns was close and he used his better because all Ray Leonard did was throw flurries that looked good but barely landed.

[USA4LIFE]

How about Meldrick Taylor, may not be the fastest but was still fast as hell.

[onetwopunch]

Hearns had a hell of alot more power but Ray Leornard had the fastest hands I have seen at that weight class.

[rsl]

Sugar Ray Leonard is in a league of his own when it comes to speed @ 147, I think Meldrick Taylor and Oscar De La Hoya are about even. P4P,PBF is probably faster than both DLH and Meldrick but he has yet to take on a true 147 w/ skills to see how fast he really is at that weight

[Keleneki]

Thomas Hearns or Sugar Ray Robinson were the fastest in my book (I am taking a logical guess at how fast Robinson was at welterweight, seeing how quick he was a middleweight). I often wonder about that fantasy matchup. They both had several styles to choose from, depending what the opponent did. Too bad there aren't any films of Robinson at welterweight. Why is that anyway that they never filmed him at that weight?

[Keleneki]

He was fastest at jr. welterweight IMO

Taylor would get my vote at jr. welterweight as well. My goodness, his handspeed was otherworldy at that weight class.