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Post by LKeet6 on Apr 6, 2020 15:24:08 GMT -5
Ok mate. Massively disagree with you. Good talking to you  |
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Post by BillySastard976 on Apr 6, 2020 15:29:12 GMT -5
Ditto |
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Post by BillySastard976 on Apr 7, 2020 5:21:13 GMT -5
Is hard to follow boxe in these days. Heavyweights especially. Between little talent available and the usual dirty stuff like referees and pilotated "roads to the belt(s)", they did everything to kill this glorious discipline in these years. If we think at what (and who) we had the chance to saw just 20-10 years ago, it seems impossible to believe. And..honestly..the simple fact that we should hope to see Joshua - Fury to have a "good" heavyweight fight, is only the easiest way to understand how disperately low is the level of this discipline. Unfortunally, heavyweight boxe seems to be dead. Honestly i don't care too much, after all i always preferred other categories, in which is required more technic, speed, stamina..and a single punch is hardly enough to win..but is sad to see. (And the situation in the welters is not so better, anyway..at the moment..with the only difference that in the welters actually THERE ARE the good fighters for some great match for the title, but...they simply can't fight for the title cause is time to push other people..Old story.) Anyway...i saw a bunch of great heavyweights in the past..and loving this discipline, in these years i had also the curiosity and the chance to see a lot of great fighters of the past..and, with no need to be too nostalgic and to make embarassing confrontations, i sincerely believe that Joshua is one of the most overrated (and, the worst thing, also strategically boring) boxeurs i ever saw to win the belt. He has a single punch and is tall. That's all. Ah no..He is also hard pumped by the media. And not only by the media (just look at the Olympic Games...). About nostalgy..how it would be your hypotetical all time heavyweights top-5? My heavyweight top five, a very difficult question, so many great fighters. I think number one has to be Ali. We should always bear in mind he missed his best years because of his ban, over three and a half years inactive, so the Ali who came back to fight Frazier, Foreman and Norton was a lesser Ali, yet he prevailed (admittedly Norton in my opinion won at least two of their three fights ) A tremendous chin, later paid for dearly. Number two is just as difficult. Foreman had the potential to be the greatest ever. His defence often goes unnoticed, everyone looks at his tremendous hooks, uppercuts but he stifled attacks before they started using old boxing techniques. See videos on YouTube regarding this. Ali was his downfall, but I feel sure he would have won a return. A tremendous jab too. We could go right back to Jack Johnson or a little later to Joe Louis, or forward again to Sonny Liston. Who knows who was better, boxing can be all about styles. Frazier was great vs Ali, yet had no hope vs Foreman. A favourite of mine is Holyfield, but would he beat a young Foreman? I doubt it, but may well have given Ali a lot of trouble. Larry Holmes, a great jab, sharp punches and fast hands, and a great chin. It is possible he is right up there with Ali. Ali takes it, his story is just too good, his personality too big, his heart even bigger. After him there are too many great fighters to choose from. My favourite fighter of all time is John Conteh, a light heavyweight who wasted his talent but what a fighter. |
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