Human Punching Bags

[Russell]

What fighters lived and died by their ability to be punch sponges?

Not fighters like LaMotta with underrated skills, but fighters who's greatest asset was literally just catching punches with their face until you were exhausted.

David Izon did this. I swear to god he did nothing against Derrick Jefferson. Jefferson was so exhausted that he fell down multiple times near the end of the fight and Izon got the TKO.

Ross Purrity also did this. How he stole Wladmir's 0. Hung around until the very end of the fight, gloves held ultra high, Wladimir just unloading on him. Ross really didn't even land anything KO worthy, Wladimir was just so exhausted he couldn't stand up.

Who else?

[RockyJim]

Ali in the 1970's...

[abraq]

Ali in the 1970's...

Ali in the 1970's?

Like against Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier, Ellis, Chuvalo, Patterson, Foster, Foreman, Norton, Bugner, etc. :lol:

[Russell]

Pretty obvious he means late career Ali, obviously, abraq.

Shavers, Spinks I, Holmes...

And yes, regardless of beating Foreman he had the living shit beaten out of him.

[DamonD]

Brian Nielsen basically outlasted a lot of his opponents. Pudgy guy but very durable.

Oliver McCall 101 is soak up everything in the first half, rally when they're exhausted and batter them about.

[Russell]

Yeah, McCall against Akiwande and Seldon was a textbook example on raw durability and how to keep marching forward to wear a guy out.

[Rebel-INS]

Carl Thompson vs David Haye and Iran Barkley vs Thomas Hearns I.

[mr. magoo]

James " Quick " Tillis

[GPater11093]

no ones mentiones the real life rocky

chuck wepner

[la-califa]

The best of this type Matthew Saad Mohammad.

[dav8d777]

The best of this type Matthew Saad Mohammad.

That is so true. I remember when he would win while looking like he had just been in a car wreck. Then one day a friend was over and Saad, Matthew Franklin at the time was taking a whipping. I told my friend, "Watch this guy. He's gonna donate two pints of blood, but still win."

Okay, well I was wrong since he was fighting Dwight Braxton, but yeah, no one could get run over by a car like Matthew.

[dav8d777]

no ones mentiones the real life rocky

chuck wepner

"The Bayonne Bleeder"!!!

[WhataRock]

Jorge Castro was an excellent example.

[COULDHAVEBEEN]

What fighters lived and died by their ability to be punch sponges?

Here's one for you:

PETER BUCKLEY

After 256 defeats, you would have thought that boxer Peter Buckley would have got the message sooner.

But after 300 fights, with only 32 wins and 12 draws, the man with the worst record of anybody still involved in the sport is finally hanging up his gloves.

The super-featherweight, 39, enjoyed an unusual winning feeling as he outpointed Matin Mohammed in Birmingham on Friday - his first win since 2003.

"Win lose or draw, this is definitely my last fight," he said beforehand.

Despite the catalogue of losses, Buckley's career has taken in fights against several world champions, including Prince Naseem Hamed, Duke McKenzie, Scott Harrison and Colin McMillan, on his CV.

"It will be fantastic to bow out in a city where I've not fought for years. Plenty of my mates are coming along to the show to cheer me on."

And Buckley says boxing has turned his life around, regardless of the unflattering statistics of his career in the ring.

"Boxing has been good to me over the years. When I was a youngster I was in trouble with the police, a really wild kid," he said.

It's a pity he wasn't just a little bit wilder in the ring!

[heehoo]

Joe Grim. That guy was literally a human punching bag. It was said when he fought against Jack Johnson, his record was 0-75, and never was he knocked out. He would get in the middle of the ring, raise his hands and declare in his loud voice "I am Joe Grim and I fear no man". And he never did.

[flamengo]

Joe Hipp... Tomato Can factory.

[Russell]

Joe Hipp... Tomato Can factory.

Actually a decent fighter.

Key word decent.

[abraq]

Pretty obvious he means late career Ali, obviously, abraq.

Shavers, Spinks I, Holmes...

And yes, regardless of beating Foreman he had the living shit beaten out of him.

Russell, the 1970's literally means all of the 70's. I think that much is pretty obvious. He didn't say the late 70's or something of that sort.

And yes, regarding Foreman. There is no denying the fact that Ali took lot of punches in Kinshasa. He took a beating from Frazier, Norton and a lot of the other guys too.

But I think what we are discussing are human punching bags. Ali's 'rope a dope' was not exactly that. He blocked and rode as many punches as he could. He also clinched Foreman a lot. And towards the end of the round he would fire sharp, machine gun punches. There is a strategy there. I feel that Ali's finishing barrages each round also contributed a lot towards Foreman's defeat. It was not as simple as taking all the other bloke had to dish out and hoping that he would tire. Of course, he could not avoid all of Foreman's punches and as I have already said took a lot of shots.

Regards.

[Bigcat]

Everett Martin ............

[BUDW]

Tex Cobb

[Rock0052]

Antonio Margarito's a good example of this.