Montel seemed to have his timing and just a bad style for him. I remember watching the first fight and being like woah, Roy is in trouble here! Montel took his left hook away so well and timed beautiful right hands.
Montel's chin let him down against both Roy and Daruisz.
No one ever legitimately decisoned him in his prime.
That's the thing with Griffin, he relied completely on skill. Didn't have a great chin, didn't have much real talent, wasn't fast, didn't have much power, just a whole load of skills. Shame.
At his best, he was fantastic and he showed it in his biggest fights.
Holyfield, SRL, Greb, Morales, Robinson, Ali & Pac have some of the greatest resumes for me. In fact Pacquiao's run from featherweight to light middleweight was probably one of the most impressive thing's I've seen in boxing.
6 times I think. From reading about the fights, Robinson came out 5-1 winner in the series but never really looked dominant until the 'St Valentines Day Massacre'.
Robinson had fought Jake Lamotta (x4), Sammy Angott (x2), Fritzie Zivic (x2) and Henry Armstrong before he had even won his first title Admittedly from what I have read he badly ducked early on, but still that was only 4 years of being a pro.
Jesus he did more in 4 years Then most present boxer will ever does
do you acnkowledge he didnt defend his titles as much as floyd? stop beading around the bush....i wasnt on boxrec reading off a list of opponents i just went off the top of my head
since you got all he stats post them and you'll see, outside of collecting trinkets in different weights, floyd has the edge in every category
either way, his numbers and stats surpass Manny, so what point are you trying to proof?
Jesus he did more in 4 years Then most present boxer will ever does
different era
they also fought like 2 times a month back then and fought a lot of bums too.
JCC had an old school record but it also mirrored many resumes of the past.
if you have 100 fights you better have at least 10 legit opponents.
look at julio cesar chavez record, he is a champion with 60 or more fights at some point fighting guys with less than 10 fights, losing records, and mexican cab drivers
they also fought like 2 times a month back then and fought a lot of bums too.
JCC had an old school record but it also mirrored many resumes of the past.
if you have 100 fights you better have at least 10 legit opponents.
look at julio cesar chavez record, he is a champion with 60 or more fights at some point fighting guys with less than 10 fights, losing records, and mexican cab drivers
quality>quantity.
Still more credit for Lamotta 6x then for Pac even 3 times,and 6x Lamotta is only part of his great Resume its unbelivable how tough was fighters bavk then and they wanted to be the best fighthing arch rivals not once but 3 or 5 times to prove who is the best no daubt.And its not like it was easy the was fighting in Bloody wars many time a year,some of this 20s fights are much brutal then Gatti-Ward,and it was only one of many for them.And now fighters are shoot after 1 or 2,Boxin was much better then.
Angot2x,Zivic2x,Armstrong,Lamotta 6x ,Kid Gavilian 2x,Bobo Olson many times idk how many xD,Turpin,Graziano,Basilio,Fullmer,Villemain ,Fusari
He even Tried to beat ****ing Maxim and fought Archer when he was past it,it must be best resume ever,so its far from bums.
Still more credit for Lamotta 6x then for Pac even 3 times,and 6x Lamotta is only part of his great Resume its unbelivable how tough was fighters bavk then and they wanted to be the best fighthing arch rivals not once but 3 or 5 times to prove who is the best no daubt.And its not like it was easy the was fighting in Bloody wars many time a year,some of this 20s fights are much brutal then Gatti-Ward,and it was only one of many for them.And now fighters are shoot after 1 or 2,Boxin was much better then.
Angot2x,Zivic2x,Armstrong,Lamotta 6x ,Kid Gavilian 2x,Bobo Olson many times idk how many xD,Turpin,Graziano,Basilio,Fullmer,Villemain ,Fusari
He even Tried to beat ****ing Maxim and fought Archer when he was past it,it must be best resume ever,so its far from bums.
oh no i wasnt pointing out a particular fighter, especially not Robinsons resume...sometimes people get enamored by the quantity and not the quality, was my point
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