Thread: Who's Skills?

This may have been asked before but I have been thinking about this recently.

If by some magic you could take the skills of any one boxer current or past, who's skills would you have?

I am not talking about there career or how they used or didn't use there skills, you would have there strength, power and boxing brain to wield as you wish for your career now

I know this doesn't exactly answer the question but i'd like to have the skills of whoever it is that can figure out a way to beat floyd, other than that i'd take floyd's skills themselves.

Originally Posted by sonny78

This may have been asked before but I have been thinking about this recently.

If by some magic you could take the skills of any one boxer current or past, who's skills would you have?

I am not talking about there career or how they used or didn't use there skills, you would have there strength, power and boxing brain to wield as you wish for your career now

Roy Jones at SMW...He had it all...Speed, Power, he was slick...At 168lbs Roy was about as good as any fighter could possibly get...IMO better then Floyd...

He played with James Toney
http://youtube.com/watch?v=83nbHy2KjhY&feature=related

He owned Pazienza
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aUvrSbAKq9M&feature=related

Everyone just likes to think about the Jones who was KO'd by Tarver and Johnson but forgot all about this version of him..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Kx9y-hF6lA

Impossible not to look at those and not realize he was great during his prime

Originally Posted by sonny78

This may have been asked before but I have been thinking about this recently.

If by some magic you could take the skills of any one boxer current or past, who's skills would you have?

I am not talking about there career or how they used or didn't use there skills, you would have there strength, power and boxing brain to wield as you wish for your career now

Good topic.... I sent some Rep. your way.

If I have to choose just 1 name: Ricardo 'Finito' Lopez definitely the most complete fighter my eyes have seen. Brilliant defensive boxer rarely tagged in his career. Offensive forget it, power! power! power! some of the sweetest TKOs you'll see.

I'll now give you 1 name per division....

Lennox
Holyfield
Foster
RJJ
Toney
McCallum
SRR
JCC
Duran
Arguello
Salvador
Morales
Olivares
Roman
Canto
Humberto
Lopez

For me i would have the speed and power and boxing brain of my hero Thomas Hearns.
be nice to throw in the chin of Marvin Hagler

Nah .... people like Roy Jones had fantastic athleticism, but their technical skills were extremely flawed. The way to judge a fighter's SKILLS is to check out whether they degenerate when their reflexes and youth disappear.

For me, the boxers whose skills I would most like to have:

Benny Leonard, Jack Johnson and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Pernell Whitaker with power.Lopez is an excellent choice as is rjj,no-one compared to him in his prime.

Currently, for me would be Ivan Calderon OR Juan Manuel Marquez. I LOVE the way those guys fight. Counter punching and pure boxing,awesome to see.

If I could take the physical attributes of any one fighter it would be henry Armstrong.
You can work on skill and strength but what he had was god given.
Stamina like no other.
A chin bigger than any on Mount Rushmore.
The ability to put on pressure which saw guys simply fall before him

I have to choose Wilfredo " The Bazooka " Gomez , the most complete boxer that had P.R. in the history........
Was a great Warrior with his great speed , power punch , where everybody said that his power power was like a Mule Kick ........

I could watch the skills of Julio Ceaser Chavez, Herol Graham and Donald Curry any day.