Quote Originally Posted by Lionheart Lacy
no fighter has used the philly shell defense like James Toney and at the highest level and against the most opponents, truly the most effective boxing style however it isnt very crowd pleasing if the other guy is a boxer style , so being ppv is tough. watch fights of toney against holyfield and barkley where he schools em both with poetic efficiency, and at the same time he is busting em up pretty badly, the thudding from his punches that landed on holydfield was amazing. them fights sell.

but not everyone is a come forward type of fighter.
How can you say that? Mayweather has used so much more effectively in defensive manner. Toney's style was good, but he couldn't adapt when a fighter game him troubles. Noway would he have p4p dodged those punches from Oscar Dela Hoya. Toney couldn't adapt to the speed of Nunn or Roy though he was countering against Nunn was effectively Nunn was still connecting a lot. Mayweather adapted to Judah much quicker, and Mayweather had the bigger obstical to overcome in that he was always used to being the fastest man in the ring by a long shot, and so he had to adapt in ways he never had before while Toney had faced faster fighters before in his life.