Punchiest Of Them All While Still Active

[The Old LefHook]

How did you miss this one, Alex?

I will have to say James Toney was the punchiest of fighters while still active.

[Anthony342]

Yeah. Holyfield too maybe, since he stuck around until 2011. What about Meldrick Taylor? Kind of sad.

[The Old LefHook]

Was Taylor punchy while active? Holy was on the all star punchy team. Terry Norris and Jerry Quarry were pretty bad. But was it while they were active?

[Anthony342]

Yeah Taylor totally was as he fought into the 2000s.

Skip to about 5:07 to hear Meldrick Taylor's slurred speech. Very sad IMO.

[i got the keys]

I'd put Toney at #1 unfortunately.

[The Old LefHook]

Yeah Taylor totally was as he fought into the 2000s.

Skip to about 5:07 to hear Meldrick Taylor's slurred speech. Very sad IMO.

Yes, that was a beautiful example, Tony. For years I have had an idea of sound clips of punch drunk fighters intermingled with sound clips of Ozzy Osbourne speaking. It is actually a game I have come up with, probably suited for Howard Stern. Stern had Leon Spinks on once, and they of course had great fun with his punch drunk speech.

[Anthony342]

I'm surprised there isn't some treatment or cure for that. Like, a voice box transplant or some kind of brain surgery that can correct that by now.

[Ben Bolt]

Every guy making the choice to be a (professional) boxer is ******** with the only life he has, his brain and his health.
That’s why you can get so disgusted with these forum trolls (often noticed in the non-stop boxing section), who love to label lots of fighters “bums”.
The real bums are themselves.

[The Old LefHook]

I'm surprised there isn't some treatment or cure for that. Like, a voice box transplant or some kind of brain surgery that can correct that by now.

You have got to be kidding, Tony. Yes, of course you are. There will never be a successful operation for punch drunkenness. When delicate brain structure is destroyed it cannot be rejuvenated. Lost memories cannot be returned, because the tenuous structure that held them in the mirror of consciousness is destroyed, gone. What is nowhere cannot be retrieved.

Some functions in nature are one-way functions. It is easy to shatter a light bulb on the floor, impossible to put it back together as it was. One-way function. Brain structure is a one-way function. Voice box? Their problem is brain functioning. Give them the same device that Stephen Hawking has, that is as clear as their speech is ever going to get.

Now cauliflower ears--those we can fix to look like a teenager's.

[BKM-]

Ali was slurring pretty badly in his last two fights. Some still think the parkinson didn't have a link to his boxing career but I know better.