What current heavy-weights are good combination punchers? Who among heavyweights consistently throws combinations?
I haven't watched recent Wlad fights...but at the beginning of the 00s he was a great combination puncher. Are you saying that he's lost this skill?
Wlad is a great combination puncher except he doesn't do it anymore. No wait actually he does still do it even 1-2 is a combination but he used to do it a lot more
It's one punch and hold with Wlad these days. Can Povetkin throw decent combos these days? Been a while since I've seen him fight.
How 'bout Eddie Chambers? He fights like a lighter weight; also, Tomasz Adamek, he's been kicking some heavyweight ass with his combo's and it looks good because he can't hurt guys with one punch so he has to use combos.
Wlad, if he chooses to, Povetkin, Chambers, Adamek and Chagaev. Two questions though: has there ever been a heavyweight era packed with good combination punchers? And two: is there a point to throw combinations if you can beat opponents with single punches (a la Foreman)?
A lot of the heavyweights from back in the day were boxers because they did not have the one punch knockout power, they were smaller than today's heavyweights. Granted, the fighters they fought were smaller, too but most times that crushing power wasn't there. Ezzard Charles (Former light heavyweight), Jersey Joe, Zora Foley, Floyd Patterson, and others like that were just good boxers that had a punch but were not knockout artists.
For 9 rounds Mesi was handling Jirov easier than Toney was. Mesi was then hit in the back of the head. For all the BS excuses in fighting, that wasn't one of them. He seemed to fade late for some reason, he always seemed to have above-average levels of body fat. But he had genuine skills and quick hands and a decent punch. It was his conditioning, and eventually that injury, which did for him in the end.
But he fought after that a few times. Mesi had good skills, but I saw Clay-Bey lay him out in one of their matches so I always had concerns about his chin.
I think Povetikin, Chambers and Adamek are all good choices, although Adamek at heavyweight doesn't throw nearly the number of combinations he did as a cruiserweight or a light heavyweight - I guess that's to be expected. Whatever the reasons or justifications for there are for the seemingly small number of top heavyweights who actually throw combinations, I don't think anyone would disagree that it makes for less exciting fights.
