Jazzed today
Roberto Duran was my idol. As a lightweight, champ for 8 years, 5 titles, kicked Leonards' ass. Just an incredible fighter. Take a punch, hit you super hard with both hands,
hands of stone...
As a lightweight, he was the best of all time.
Ray Arcel and Freddie Brown for managers, really the original dream team.
I use one of their techniques. You tie your feet together with rope, shoulder width apart, at the knees, or lower, and try to fight like that. It teaches you to keep your feet out of the bucket, and gives you more punching power, with both hands, on your combinations.
I thought Duran was the best of all time, until I saw a tape of Sugar Ray Robinson...
As Ali said, Ali was the greatest heavyweight of all time, but Sugar Ray Robinson, pound for pound was the greatest fighter of all time. Why? He had a whole bunch of guys, that if not for Ray Robinson, would have been the greatest of all time. Marcel Cerdan, Randy Turpin, Jake LaMotta,
Bobo Olson, that welterweight from the midwest that kicked ass, all of these guys were incredible. Most moved up and won the light heavy title, since they couldn't beat Ray at middleweight.
Plus, his record, 222-and 20 something losses will never be equaled, or approached.
Worked very well for me.
I also got my ass kicked by Dennis Alexio, the undefeated world heavyweight Karate champion, who is a better body puncher then Mike Tyson, and, if he ever fought Tyson, would give him a good fight. Mike has 10 pounds on Dennis.
Anyway, he was trying to hit me in the heart, and stop mine. I blocked one with my arm, but another I turned, and caught it on the end of one of my ribs, breaking off the tip.
Hurt for 4 months.
The upside is I spared him for days, usually 5 -10 rounds a day.
And, the reason he was mad is he put his head in the middle of a beautiful 7 punch combination.
since knee surgery, today was the first day I've felt really good on my legs. I went full court, as the only ref, for a 9th grade girls game, for about an hour and a 1/2, and was out running the girls on the break.
I'm jazzed.
Lately I have been practicing a bit of another martial art.
It mainly involves 45 caliber, and JEHH would enjoy it.
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