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What are ur thoughts on the way jersey joe shuffled, moved, feinted, slipped. didnt it look like he was doing the moonwalk at times??? it honestly look like he was sliding. He looked like he was dancing. It was called "The Walcott Waltz". He could keep an opponent at bay just with his footwork and shoulder feints.

i have never seen anyone past present or future, move, suffle in the ring that way he does. who taught him it?? did walcott ever show his shuffle to anyone else??? i mean i hadnt seen anyone do it since, though ali used some version of it.

i heard bruce lee watched films of walcott and took tips from the way walcott moved.



I have a two minute clip on VHS of him sparring in preperation for Rocky Marciano. Amazing stuff - he'd change direction in the blink of an eye, could turn on a penny, feint a guy into making mistakes and also slip and weave on the inside. Occasionally he would grab the rope and use it to slide from left to right, and he would propell himself off the ropes to land a surprise punch.
and Walcott does this move that just looks surreal, he is sparring letting the guy hit is body he moves to the left then like someone pressed the rewind button the video his entire body goes backwards and go to the right completely dumbfounds his opponent who goes the wrong direction.It's hard to describe but it looks damn weird, everything he did even the way he moved was just weird

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i saw him fighting louis, he looked like he was dancing to a ketchy tune as he was movign in on louis, he was kinda bobbing up and down n almost dancing around too

he just developed his own style, like Jones Jr. or P. Whitaker . . . he had the physical gifts to just do unorthodox stuff

Walcott had all the tricks, he was ahead of his time.

The punch he knocked Ezzard Charles out with was awsome.

Walcott is much underrated.

I actually think Walcott gets rated correctly for the most part. Highly respected, lauded for his exceptional skills, but wisely not included within the upper echelon (Ali, Louis, Foreman, Frazier etc) where he definitely does not belong.

Crease wrote:Walcott is much underrated.

Its Charles who gets hugely under-sold at Heavy, not Walcott.

Crease wrote:Walcott is much underrated.

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