Jack of all trades

[violaandme]

I was recently watching my collection of Pernell Whitaker fights and noticed not for the first time the wide varieties of styles he would use from fight to fight and was wondering if someone could tell me a more well rounded fighter to watch he changed his styles so drastically from fight to fight sometimes even from round to round no wonder he was so dominating what would you train for and even if you started to time him and figure what he was doing the next round would be a total reversal of what he was doing many people remember the sweet pea from Jose louis Ramerez 1 or Azumah Nelson where he was back peddling and jabbing constantly and diving under power shots to land crushing body blows though I see those fights completely diferent from each other I think mainly because of the opponents defense

but there was also many other fight plans that Pernell used from the Anthony Jones fight where he caught alot of punches with his gloves and would fire back power shots with great accuracy and standing his ground

also Buddy mcgirt fights where he stood his ground and even sometimes backed buddy up a lot of feinting and about even on catching and ducking punches their second fight he would counter buddies straight rights with a left over the top

even when he fought Jorge Paez forehead to forehead and traded blow for blow
or Poli Diaz he backed him up and stalked him around the ring
every fight was different stylistically was this just a product of his amateur experience and knowledge or did it have to do more with his work with the great George Benton or posibally a little of both?

[greeh]

I was recently watching my collection of Pernell Whitaker fights and noticed not for the first time the wide varieties of styles he would use from fight to fight and was wondering if someone could tell me a more well rounded fighter to watch he changed his styles so drastically from fight to fight sometimes even from round to round no wonder he was so dominating what would you train for and even if you started to time him and figure what he was doing the next round would be a total reversal of what he was doing many people remember the sweet pea from Jose louis Ramerez 1 or Azumah Nelson where he was back peddling and jabbing constantly and diving under power shots to land crushing body blows though I see those fights completely diferent from each other I think mainly because of the opponents defense

but there was also many other fight plans that Pernell used from the Anthony Jones fight where he caught alot of punches with his gloves and would fire back power shots with great accuracy and standing his ground

also Buddy mcgirt fights where he stood his ground and even sometimes backed buddy up a lot of feinting and about even on catching and ducking punches their second fight he would counter buddies straight rights with a left over the top

even when he fought Jorge Paez forehead to forehead and traded blow for blow
or Poli Diaz he backed him up and stalked him around the ring
every fight was different stylistically was this just a product of his amateur experience and knowledge or did it have to do more with his work with the great George Benton or posibally a little of both?

Myung-Woo Yuh was very well-rounded and could do a bit of everything.

/greeh

[greeh]

The Argentinean flyweight Santos Benigno Laciar was also a very good all-round fighter.

/greeh

[IronDanHamza]

Harold Johnson is very well rounded.

[violaandme]

Harold Johnson is very well rounded.

ah yes Harold Johnson I have seen him he was great and a very hard one to beat at his best I will have to check out the other two though

funny thing about Harold Johnson is I first heard about him while watching Pernell Whitaker vs Harold Braiser fight and Larry Merchant was talking about him and why the old match maker at MSG did not put him on more cards I think the guys quote was Harold Johnson is the closest thing to perfect in the ring and there is no room for perfection in boxing I remember hearing Merchant tell the story and it had inspired me to check out some of his fights

that was another sweet pea style against Braiser he just brutalized Braiser's body and swamped him with punches something like 995 punches in 10 rounds and braiser's body was hurting so bad he wouldn't lift his arms and by round 7 he was throwing less than 15 punches/round with nothing on them it was when the crowd started to boo because the fight was so one sided and sweet pea would not finish him because he needed the work at 140lbs that merchant told the story of Johnson

[violaandme]

Myung-Woo Yuh vs Oh Kon Son and that was a fight holy hell they never stopped punching neither one of them they punched out of all the clinches they punched through the bells at the end of the rounds they punched and punched their workrates were incredible and both had great chins I recomend that one to any fight fan that has not seen it or if you had watch it again

the only problem is I watched it 11 hours before two big fights tonight and I doubt Garcia vs Mattysee or Canelo vs Floyd will live up to that

[Anthony342]

Didn't Whitaker actually stop someone on body punches? I seem to remember that, I believe it was on HBO.

[violaandme]

Didn't Whitaker actually stop someone on body punches? I seem to remember that, I believe it was on HBO.

yeah he knocked down Jake Rodriegez twice in the 6th round with body punches the second time he doubled over and waited for the 10 count he also was the first person to knock down Rafael Pineda and it was with a rib shot

[Anthony342]

Yeah I always thought he should've attacked the body more with his timing, his fights probably would've ended sooner.