philly shell fails

[margaret thatcher]

saw this term used to describe edgar berlanga's attempts to use it in a previous fight

and indeed so many fighters who try it fail miserably


who besides floyd was/is good at it?

[Monzon83]

George Benton/James Toney were good at it. Benton pretty much patented it.

Anthony Yarde is pretty bad at it but it doesn't stop him doing his Floyd impression.

[margaret thatcher]

ah yes, toney was good for sure

havent seen much of benton, but if the man invented it he must be good

[oogiebe]

kenny norton, no?

[DrDuke]

Broner and Kudryashov definitely failed using it.

[margaret thatcher]

kud was the last guy who should ever try it

berto pulled some awful ones too, it led to this

[DrDuke]

kud was the last guy who should ever try it

Yeah. Btw, last night he has finally won. Although it was against some sh!thouse, a local MMA fighter, who decided to try boxing.

[margaret thatcher]

from 2014 to 2017 or so he had a fun career, a lot of forums loved him. but then he stepped beyond his level and became a punchbag. vs the right opposition i enjoyed watching him though

[DrDuke]

from 2014 to 2017 or so he had a fun career, a lot of forums loved him. but then he stepped beyond his level and became a punchbag. vs the right opposition i enjoyed watching him though

It was the same last night. He fought a nobody again and finally scored the 1st round KO. Also, he bulked to 105 kg. However, hardly he'll face a decent HW, probably he'll take part in local freakshows in the nearest future.

[Frostieballs]

Ian Napa!

[high tower 1]

Pretty sure AJ briefly tried it

[dookus]

Ian Napa!

Beat me to it!

[Frostieballs]

Ian Napa!

Beat me to it!

Loved watching Napa

[GreenLightning]

Philly shell was coined as a term by the fight night games I think, it was just called the crab defence

[jameswilson]

George Foreman.

[orbtastic]

Foreman’s defence was more in the mould of Archie Moore’s cross arm defence. Frazier used a variant of it at times too.

Hopkins as boring as he could be at times used a decent Philly shell in his bag of tricks. He was very good at nullifying and drawing the sting out of opponents.

[margaret thatcher]

and making fights stinky

move around a bit, single pot shot. hold. whine about something. repeat. win a decision. that was most of post middle weight hopkins fights in a nutshell. i dont see how even purists could be entertained by that.

[orbtastic]

Ring mag even gave him a regular “tactics” spread where he would explain with photos how to tie someone up. It was even more boring than the letters page.

[oogiebe]

Foreman’s defence was more in the mould of Archie Moore’s cross arm defence. Frazier used a variant of it at times too.

Hopkins as boring as he could be at times used a decent Philly shell in his bag of tricks. He was very good at nullifying and drawing the sting out of opponents.

Exactly right.

[brilo33]

got popular from you tube coachs like coach anthony, i think you have to be gifted fighter to fight in those stances and have success