Who currently has the best hand speed in boxing?
Also, who do you guys think had the fastest hands you ever saw, historically?
Who currently has the best hand speed in boxing?
Also, who do you guys think had the fastest hands you ever saw, historically?
Hmm, cant think of his name but he was something like a bantam or feather then went up to something around welter and had a look of Mike Tyson facially. Fast hands, not alot of power and do e fuck all with the talent he has. Seems to have been around years as well. I think he came in stupidly overweight in a fight.
So fucking annoyed that I cant remember his name!!
Probably all time Roy Jones or Meldrick Taylor, at least off the top of my head for pure handspeed. Mosley at lightweight, or Terry Norris were also stupidly fast. Ray Leonard of course is up there, and Thommy Hearns probably had almost equivalent handspeed given his technique and leverage. A young Zab Judah was lightning as well, still has fast hands if not much else. Right now I couldn't really say for sure. In theory I'm sure it's someone who's really tiny, but for me the real killers are guys who put blinding speed behind powerful and technically sound punches. Maybe Donaire, or even Pacquiao until quite recently.
Yuriorkis Gamboa is a quick little guy. Roy Jones probably the p4p king in speed.
Khan has some pretty fast pistons!
Today inpo
Gamboa
Broner
Benavidez
Gonzalez
Historically
Jones was on another planet
Tyson for a hev was extremely fast especially in the pocket
Taylor
Robinson
Leonard
Pepp
Jofre
Shane
Today - Gary Russell Jnr, Amir Kahn
Historically- Meldrick Taylor, Mosley, Pernell Whittaker
Nothings Sweeter Than Sugar
Gamboa, Amir Khan, Broner IMO.
Historically, p4p Roy Jones was the fastest IMO.
By p4p I mean if you could take an average punch speed for each weight division, and measure how much faster a fighter was above the average for his weight division, Roy Jones had the fastest hands in boxing history.
No, youd then be talking about Mike Tyson...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ccyxU2OEf_0
Last edited by ross; 01-04-2013 at 03:31 PM.
Nah, Roy Jones was faster for a LHW than Tyson was for a HW.
Cassius Clay was faster than Tyson.
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