charley burley had a very nice step back.
any guy with a good step back is very hard to hit.
he was very hard to hit and he can hang you out on the end of his jab and step back from your counter. so he was very hard to counter.
from what i can see which is only what i can know burley was not a check hook guy or even very much of a counter puncher. he wanted to hang you out on the end of his punches and step back from your punches. not a mover. not a busy puncher.
there is hagler the boxer who tamed bennie briscoe with finesse and grace and there is hagler the seeker and destroyer who seeked and destroyed tommy hearns. there is orthodox hagler and there is southpaw hagler. but i am not sure any hagler beats charley burley.
burley beats hagler.
a former sparring partner of burley once compared burley to jones. i can understand this point of view. they are much the same in some ways however jones was more of a mover and more of a counter puncher and he played chess with his check hook.
jones beats burley. barely.
the story is burley was working at his factory job in san diego and was asked to get in the ring with archie moore that night. so with his boxing shoes in hand he got on a bus to hollywood. burley knocked down moore for a five count in the 1st, an eight count in the 3rd, a seven count in the 4th, and had moore ready to go in the 10th. moore had a term he used to represent his own interesting boxing style and this term was escapology. this is as it sounds. moore was an escape artist. my own theory is moore used to try to show you what to hit teasing you to hit what he was showing you and then when you punched where he wanted you to punch he moved out of the way steering your punches into thin air.
toney and moore were reach and teach guys. that is to say they wanted to show you upper body movement to make you overextend your punches. when you overextended your punches they countered you. when roy jones shut out james toney he never played into toneys own interesting brand of escapology. jones never reached. so toney never teached. toney makes burley miss but burley is always ready to press down on his front foot and step back from toneys counters. burley doesnt reach. toney doesnt teach.
burley beats toney.
jackson swings big and misses bigger.
burley beats jackson.
g man never had the chance to meet a true pure boxer. big question mark for a boxing boogeyman. g man was big but burley beat and battered heavyweights.
burley beats g man.
burley may or may not hit ward with a few big shots but steady movement and the presence of wards jab filling in any dead gaps of inactivity has ward gradually emerging ahead on points.
ward beats burley.
hopkins trying to jab and grab or in his case steal a right hand and grab is met only with a burley step back. so hopkins is going to have to box burley honest. hopkins has to start fast and he cant give away rounds the two things he never seemed to manage doing whenever he was in the same ring with a person who was not so easily confused by his tricks and gimmicks. burley is one such a person.
burley beats hopkins.
monzon threw one of the best jabs there ever was. a guy with a good jab and a good step back is so hard beat and monzon had each of these things so monzon was hard to beat. monzon went undefeated for 80 bouts with a jab, a step back, and a big right hand. some guys throw a hard jab. some guys throw a quick jab. monzons jab was not hard or quick. monzons jab was steady. everything you do in a ring with monzon every move you make is with a jab in front of your face.
monzon beats burley.
5-3. burley beats punchers and counter punchers. beats boxer punchers with pure boxing. beaten by jabs and movement.
