Quote Originally Posted by Taeth
I think people aren't seeing Robinson's obvious flaws... he had almost not defence, he had great offence, but his defense wasn't there. I have no problem seeing Leonard winning a UD against him because Leonard actually moved out of the way of punches, and used defence on the inside. More often than not he would probably lose, but Robinson was getting hit a lot by the jab of Lamotta when he was only 31 at MW or not that shouldn't happen against a guy so much slower than him, but Leonard, his equal in speed, would give him fits with that stiff jab. I am not sure if Monzon or Hopkins would have beaten RObinson at middleweight, it would have been good, and I also don't think Leonard would have had a better chance at middleweight than at welterweight, I think the higher they go the more advantage to RObinson.
I don't mean to pick this apart man, but Robinson's defence was seen as revolutionary at the time, he inspired Ali to use his reflexes to keep out of the way of punches and the reason he got caught a lot by La Motta was because jake was a fast guy on the front foot and could cut of the ring well.

As for Hopkins, i'm not sure. But if you propose that SRL could beat him at MW then Carlos Monzon could. Monzon was as hard hitting a middleweight as there ever was (excluding the monstor Jackson) he had good speed nice combinations and a bloody mindset.

And I think you mean The higher the weight the greater the advantage to Leonard?

Again don't mean to pick your post apart, just observations...