A video tribute to the art in human form..

Stick your sluggers up your ring. This is the Greatest pure boxer who ever lived. Poetry in Motion. The sweet science personified.

RIGONDEAUX!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kfOfz2fBHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPztlXk3JSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Amgp8Qd9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoz6dsBi0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZIqQwlFWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uayc6pdfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-t41JDW51k

That's not Floyd.....

Well done for reading the opening post Kareem

I agree its not Floyd.

Just watched the first clip, never knew floyd spoke spanish. Multi-talented guy.

Eat your heart out Lomachenko.

He looks vulnerable to a check hook.

Stop it you Scottish kumquat we're seeing quite an increase in quality of article and discusson. Don't ruin it.

And Mackem. .. iis this you?

Off topic but interesting little fight for your boy Glenn foot this weekend fingers. How do you see it going?

He is a master Fingers but for all round mastery you can't look past Leonard, being able to slug it out as well as floating like a butterfly is on another level.

superflyweight wrote:He looks vulnerable to a check hook.  

It has to be good old Mackem, surely? The flowery prose about Rigo's lavish talents and style, the anger and sense of injustice when people stated that the first knockdown against Amagasa was legit. Classic signs!

To be fair, there has been a whispering campaign amongst some Rigondeaux fans for a while that, despite his less than granite chin, Rigondeaux is THE best-ever practicioner of hit and don't get hit / essential boxing. In terms of what he does, he is brilliant. But controversial / unpopular as it might be for some - doesn't Mayweather have basically as good a claim as anyone else in history of being the best practitioner of the sweet science ever in those pure terms? Criticise his personality, antics and selection of fights all you like, but don't pretend that you've seen too many guys who've got boxing down to a science like he has.

If you're looking at versatility though, a smooth boxer with that killer instinct and who could approach fights differently, then as Hammersmith says Leonard always comes to mind for me. Could mimic the fighting style of his opponent and do it better than them a lot of the time.

Plus he made Strongy look a wally on the check-hook thread.....

TopHat24/7 wrote:Plus he made Strongy look a wally on the check-hook thread.....

First thing I was taught was how to throw a spinning backfist and check hook.........

Later we learned how to throw both at the same time...

Boston has got the best fistic heritage for a reason...........Rumor has it John L perfected the spinning back fist.............

Source : Windy in his pink dress at the Kilrain fight ..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:.....Rumor has it John L perfected the spinning back fist.............

Source : Windy in his pink dress at the Kilrain fight ..

Aye, and Sully was p*ssed half the time. Imagine how good he would have been sober.

Argh wrong thread

(unt!

Im away from home milky but I've just received a text to say glens lad has pulled out. Half of sunderland are skint and have made the trip to London on a tight budget.

Glen found out now at the last minute (at the weigh in) the lad is poorly (diddums). Second time he's duffed it now.

Frank gavin says "people are running scared of glen foot at welter. The winner of eggington/singleton vs foot should be the final eliminater for my British title"

... Bit of a sickener all round fingers... And it's not like the beers cheap!