Ok, Ok... 1. Naseem Hamed 2. Jorge Paez 3. Johnny Tapia 4. Terrance Alli 5. ...and there was one other fighter who I can't think of who tried to do a back flip off the ring corner ropes and landed on his face.::
btw, mosley, taylor, lacy, not even hopkins are flippity floopy fighters. so don't pretend this has one iota to do with race :nono:
Surely Monte Barrett entered into the Flippity Floop hall of fame after his ringwalk extravaganza against Haye?
Surprised to see Tyson @ so many peoples #1. It's easy to look like a Flippity floopy fighter when you're fighting tomato cans. Duran showed flashes of Flippity floopy-ness early on in his career, but it tended to dissapate as e moved up in weight. Interestingly, the same could be said for trinidad, although (and I know this is controversial), IMHO he showed, if not Flippity floopy-ness against RJJ, then definately flashes of drippity dropy-ness-the likes of which I hadn't seen since the Hopkins fight. BTW Hopkins is a rare example of a guy who can switch from Flippity floopy-ness to drippity dropy-ness mid-fight.-I can't imagine anything more confusing for an apponent, & it really isn't something you can teach-It's innate. We've all heard corners on many occasions pleading with their fighters to "change it up"-"you've got him-all u have to do is get Flippity floopy in there & he's yours!"-Sometimes it's almost as if the fighter doesn't know what the hell the corner man is talking about -We saw a prime example of that in Hattons corner against PBF (who gets a lot of credit for Flippity floopy-ness, but for me what passes for Flippity floopy-ness with PBF is border-line illegal & he wouldn't have gotten away with it in SRR's day, whom anyone who knows anything about boxing would havetoo admit was the master of "Flippity floopy-ness") -You just have to watch his fight's with LaMotta-Lets face it-It's not rocket surgery
Agreed. -He can also switch from Flippity floopy-ness to drippity dropy-ness mid-fight just to confuse an opponent-Very versatile fighter. As I said B4-It's something that cannot be taught.