I Like Pot-Shot Fighters

[Code Red]

Often you see people complaining that this or that fighter is just dancing around pot shotting. My question is what's wrong with that? Ever stop to think that to be a successful pot shotter a fighter has to be an extremely fast and accurate puncher. That takes skill, talent, and years of experience.

One virtue of pot shotting is that you can clearly see when punches land. A major criteria of scoring is clean accurate punching and no one does that better than a pot shotter.

Let's take Orlando Salido into consideration. Recently he fought Vargas in an all out brawl, 12 grueling rounds of brawling, slugging, wrestling, neither guy had any pot shot skills or an ability to hit and not get hit. A few years back however Mikey Garcia fought Salido and pot shotted him into oblivion, easy fight. There's the blueprint...pot shotting... why not follow it?

To me, making a fight easy is the smartest and most skillful thing to do. If you are fast enough, slick enough, skilled enough to pot shot your way to victory why not? Judges can't rob you cause your punches land clean and effectively!

[John Locke]

Welcome to boxingscene, it's ****** central on here.

Of course outside fighting is an art and takes great skill, anyone who understands boxing appreciates it.

[Hype job]

That's dope OP because I was thinking the same thing, often you see people complaining that this or that fighter is just dancing around pot shotting. My question is what's wrong with that? Ever stop to think that to be a successful pot shotter a fighter has to be an extremely fast and accurate puncher. That takes skill, talent, and years of experience.

One virtue of pot shotting is that you can clearly see when punches land. A major criteria of scoring is clean accurate punching and no one does that better than a pot shotter.

Let's take Orlando Salido into consideration. Recently he fought Vargas in an all out brawl, 12 grueling rounds of brawling, slugging, wrestling, neither guy had any pot shot skills or an ability to hit and not get hit. A few years back however Mikey Garcia fought Salido and pot shotted him into oblivion, easy fight. There's the blueprint...pot shotting... why not follow it?

To me, making a fight easy is the smartest and most skillful thing to do. If you are fast enough, slick enough, skilled enough to pot shot your way to victory why not? Judges can't rob you cause your punches land clean and effectively!

[Code Red]

Cool. So who's your favorite pot-shotter of all time?

In all honesty Floyd and Roy were great at it! Got to pot them in a top 5...and Mikey Garcia, though he hasn't fought in years, is an accurate pot shotter

[Code Red]

Roy Jones was special. I'd say he's my fav too.

What I like is that Floyd can dominate an entire fight with pot shotting, Roy could literally Knock you out, put you to sleep with a pot shot. What they have in common is they could both lead with either a long right hand or leaping left hook. Crazy thing is how accurate they were with it!

[Code Red]

The Baldomir fight was a virtuoso performance by Floyd. I knew he was going to go down as one of the best pot-shotters of all time after watching that fight.

When you are outsized and outweighed by 20 lbs pot shorting is not a bad strategy. Baldomir had a significant weight advantage how could you expect Floyd to stand and trade when he's outsized to that degree.

A better example of pot shotting is Floyd vs Alvarez, Mosley, and Corrales.

[MrClutch85]

I like Mayweather and Roy Jones master two handed pot shotters.Lara and Rigo are great one handed pot shotters

[mathed]

Often you see people complaining that this or that fighter is just dancing around pot shotting. My question is what's wrong with that? Ever stop to think that to be a successful pot shotter a fighter has to be an extremely fast and accurate puncher. That takes skill, talent, and years of experience.

One virtue of pot shotting is that you can clearly see when punches land. A major criteria of scoring is clean accurate punching and no one does that better than a pot shotter.

Let's take Orlando Salido into consideration. Recently he fought Vargas in an all out brawl, 12 grueling rounds of brawling, slugging, wrestling, neither guy had any pot shot skills or an ability to hit and not get hit. A few years back however Mikey Garcia fought Salido and pot shotted him into oblivion, easy fight. There's the blueprint...pot shotting... why not follow it?

To me, making a fight easy is the smartest and most skillful thing to do. If you are fast enough, slick enough, skilled enough to pot shot your way to victory why not? Judges can't rob you cause your punches land clean and effectively!

[ShoulderRoll]

It's always been a part of the sport.

[Boxfan83]

hmmm I may need to go rewatch some old Roy Jones highlights but I dont recall RJJr ever being a "pot shotter" (except Understandably against John Ruiz) or even being close to resembling Floyd "Money" Mayweather maybe PBF. The Roy Jones I recall threw combinations with crazy hand speed and great eye hand foot coordination but who knows I may just be a dumb ass posting on a thread with a clear bias and ulterior motive. Also Mikey Garcia seems to be an aggressive combo throwing (1,2,3 rinse and repeat) counter puncher but again I probably dksab.

And yeah pop shotting is a part of boxing, its a style but Id prefer to watch RJJ and Mikey Garcia "pop shotting" over others...