Just played the game all weekend long with a friend. I change my viewpoint. The game isn't too slow. I still wish haymaker-type punches were a bit faster so that I could set them up outside of a parry, but this game is the bomb. Fighting a human opponent really brings out the truth in a game. Not only did our fights last longer in round 3, but they really did go at the many different paces of a boxing match. I've gotten used to Frazier's speed, and can set up the double left hook; but I still wish he were a tad faster.

What really showed how good this game is, was going back and playing the older games. We did that, and the past to games were so fast that we wondered how we could possibly strategize in them.

So, I retract my previous blind statements.