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Best overall: Michael Watson. He had the best blocking ability I've seen, and in our second fight kept up the pace of a lightweight with the strength of a cruiserweight for 10 and three-quarter-rounds, which has never been done elsewhere.
Best boxer: Graciano Rocchigiani had the best timing with straight shots and out of an airtight defense.
Best puncher: By far it was Nigel Benn. Not even a muscled heavyweight on the night in Carl Thompson hit as devastatingly hard. Joe Calzaghe hit me with a clean knockdown early, but I didn't see the shot coming and was laughing in a second or so. Benn pulverized you with any shot where you wanted to cry.
Best defense: Watson or Benn, depending on the criteria. For blocking it was Watson, for evading it was Benn.
Fastest hands: Benn or Calzaghe, depending on the criteria. For a single shot it was Benn, for a combination of shots it was Calzaghe. Only Roy Jones in his prime was as fast in either criteria of hand speed, ever, pound-for-pound.
Fastest feet: The late Tony Thornton was super effective at cutting the size of the ring down.
Best chin: Steve Collins took my hardest shots in our second fight, I was able to perfectly pivot my feet on occasion as he came in; a left uppercut, a left hook, a right hand - 'bang!', no effect. He had the best chin and work-rate combination I've seen that night.
Best jab: My forte was slipping a jab expressionlessly by a centimeter, but the jab that ever really landed against me more than a couple of times in a fight was that of Rocchigiani, the southpaw. Great timing. He out-jabbed Henry Maske and Michael Nunn.
Strongest: Pound-for-pound, Michael Watson. On the night he just seemed to be a Superman, and battered me in every round after the third, until the last second of the 11th.
Smartest: Dan Schommer. My word, where did this cat come from? And where did he go? He judged distance and spacing better than any boxer I ever shared a ring with. He was always a centimeter out of range, so when I went to strike I would miss and he would counter every time with a southpaw right hook or southpaw left hand. He would've won world middleweight titles if he wasn't self-managed and dieted better.
Best overall: Michael Watson. He had the best blocking ability I've seen, and in our second fight kept up the pace of a lightweight with the strength of a cruiserweight for 10 and three-quarter-rounds, which has never been done elsewhere.
Best boxer: Graciano Rocchigiani had the best timing with straight shots and out of an airtight defense.
Best puncher: By far it was Nigel Benn. Not even a muscled heavyweight on the night in Carl Thompson hit as devastatingly hard. Joe Calzaghe hit me with a clean knockdown early, but I didn't see the shot coming and was laughing in a second or so. Benn pulverized you with any shot where you wanted to cry.
Best defense: Watson or Benn, depending on the criteria. For blocking it was Watson, for evading it was Benn.
Fastest hands: Benn or Calzaghe, depending on the criteria. For a single shot it was Benn, for a combination of shots it was Calzaghe. Only Roy Jones in his prime was as fast in either criteria of hand speed, ever, pound-for-pound.
Fastest feet: The late Tony Thornton was super effective at cutting the size of the ring down.
Best chin: Steve Collins took my hardest shots in our second fight, I was able to perfectly pivot my feet on occasion as he came in; a left uppercut, a left hook, a right hand - 'bang!', no effect. He had the best chin and work-rate combination I've seen that night.
Best jab: My forte was slipping a jab expressionlessly by a centimeter, but the jab that ever really landed against me more than a couple of times in a fight was that of Rocchigiani, the southpaw. Great timing. He out-jabbed Henry Maske and Michael Nunn.
Strongest: Pound-for-pound, Michael Watson. On the night he just seemed to be a Superman, and battered me in every round after the third, until the last second of the 11th.
Smartest: Dan Schommer. My word, where did this cat come from? And where did he go? He judged distance and spacing better than any boxer I ever shared a ring with. He was always a centimeter out of range, so when I went to strike I would miss and he would counter every time with a southpaw right hook or southpaw left hand. He would've won world middleweight titles if he wasn't self-managed and dieted better.
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