
Originally Posted by
Preme
This is just a topic that gives me a fucking head ache to be honest.
Truth is, i don't like either of these so i think i'm pretty neut looking at it, and every way i look at it there is a a different outcome and reason for either winning?
but that is what makes boxing one of the greatest sports in the world, good matches are so very hard to call, no matter how would like to big up our ego by saying our pick was right, a lot of the time in even match ups, it comes down to a lot of luck.
I think this match, out of the all the "What if they fought" threads is one of the most itneresting, but hardest to call, luck will play a bigger factor in this than any amount of anaylisying.
The classic thing for all of us to predic in a match that faces to great punchers against eachother is an early KO; but this could very well have seen to very gun shy fighters, both knowing that one clean punch will put them in la-la land.
Neither had a great chin, neither had a BAD one, most of the time they have been in a toe-to-toe it has been their own impressive punch power that has forced the other to back off or go down, rather than their chin that getting them through it.
I personaly would favour Naz in the early rounds, slovenly and recklass in his attacks, he leaves him self very open if he doesn't land big and Naz was all about dodging an attack and landing big with a counter, he had great agility, speed, timing and power, all combined would be a nightmare for a reckless fighter like pac.
While Naz had that, i don't think he was ever tested with someone like pacs hand speed, with his sometimes questionable balance, which was part of his style, if pac landed he could hurt him badly and finish him quick, i just think pac would struggle to land, while Naz wouldn;t so much. it would be very close.
If you want to look at this over a distance, i favour Naz again slightly, there is a good chance pacs sustained attacks could break naz down slowly if he couldn;t connect with the big one, and a fatigued fighter will become sloppy and an easier target to hit, but i think for this to go to the latter rounds, pac would try to box more and get countered a lot, Naz was all about patience, strutting around that ring like the cocky son of a bitch he was, just waiting for the slight opening to land that killing blow, he could controll him self and stay focused, pac i don't think could in a big match, its come forward, all out attack, a more skilled Ricky hattont ype fighter.
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