If you stand in front of him, you're going to sleep..

Which fighter in history was/ is this, the most true of?
Tito, Tyson, Liston, Foreman... et al

 

Naz.

 

Beat me to it.

 

Beat me to it. Good one.

 

Beat me to saying "beat me to it". Good one.

 

Tito was the first to come to mind. Not that he was the hardest puncher in history, but it would always be easier to nullify his offense in many different ways. Standing right in front of him was about as dumb as it could get.

 

Foreman

 

agreed with the consensus that NAZ is the definitive answer.

 

Nah......lots of guys stood in front of Foreman and didn't go to sleep. Peralta was one. Chuvalo was another one. Wepner too. Fuck it, even Frazier wouldn't stay down, and he was fucked from the first Ali fight. George had chilling power , more power than Naz ever had.....but probably didn't have the hand-speed to effortlessly KO people when they stood in front of him, and, there were guys who stood in front of George and made him miss and countered him.

A guy could be stood in front of Naz , in no danger, and seemingly out of range, when he'd just get put to sleep like a stray dog. And it wasn't just damage cases or bums. Vuyani Bungu was a solid contender and he just got laid out with one punch off a right jab.

Its not a question of power, its a question of how not to go about fighting a guy, and the way to beat Hamed was to NOT stand in front of him for any given period of time.

 

I don't know......with Hamed, guys could put on the ear-muffs and he would KO them with an uppercut that had started with a jab, or with a body-shot that had started as a hook upstairs.

If you stood in front of Tito with your hands down and your chin out, yeah, sure, you might get blasted on, but Tito's hook was wider than Marlon Brando.

A good example is the first knockdown of Joppy. Joppy inexplicably drops his hands and Titos wide left hook catches him.

 

Malignaggi

 

Yeah, you're going to fall asleep.

 

Well Tito and Nas are kind of apples and oranges in that regard.

Trinidad basically had to have his feet planted to get his power shots off. It's just easier to tell when a guy is standing in front of Tito. Not very many guys could have replicated the ear muffs job Winky did.

When Hamed unleashed power shots it wasn't always a guy standing there expecting to take shots and return fire. They could come from almost anywhere.

Barrera certainly outboxed Naseem, but he didn't use near the amount of movement De La Hoya did against Trinidad either.

 

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First proper answer that came into my head was ray robinson.

 

JACKSON....

 

Foster and Julian Jackson

 

How the fuck did I not think of the Hawk?! Great shout.

 

Fuck, missed this one too. GREAT call cdogg :bears:

 

Don't edit his post. :nono:


It was Buddy McGirt.

 

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Julian Jackson was the first that came to mind

 

Lol
:bears:

 

Fucking nobody. There isn't a fighter in history who didn't face someone that could take their punches. Of the fighters mentioned though I'd think Julian Jackson over Tito and especially over Hamed.

Tito rarely 1 punched finished guys. He could hurt them badly and eventually KO them, but it was rarely a one and done affair or even a 1 rd affair. With Hamed his opposition was of such low caliber that it's no wonder he appeared to be so powerful. MAB easily took his shots and MAB was dropped by Pacquiao, Morales, and Jr. Jones yet the great Hamed couldn't dent him. The reason is because Hameds punching power was overrated from stopping a slew of tomato cans.

 

Audley harrison, cause he was so boring to watch and probably fight against too

 

Lennox Lewis knew how to put dudes to sleep.

 

Tua & Mercer stood in front of him & never looked like getting stopped though.

 

McCallum was right in the pocket against Jackson too

 

Mike Tyson in his prime