Pernell was a master!

@skotiskiller

6 жыл бұрын

where did you find the picture of your avatar?

RIP Sweet Pea (you were one of the greatest southpaws in the fight game)

Simply put. The best of his era and one of the all time greats.

@benrobbo2902

3 жыл бұрын

RJJ is the only one I consider better in his era

@its_rick_james_bich2575

Жыл бұрын

@@benrobbo2902 Whitaker was miles ahead of RJJ as far as technique and pure boxing IQ. RJJ had the athleticism, but not the technique or IQ to match Whitaker. Something that became apparent as RJJ hit his 30s.

Goat of boxing defence sweet pea pernell whitaker thanks for the memmories 90' boxings greatest

Rip Pernell your one of the all time greats

Ironic watching Terence Crawford go through some of the same shit now🤔

Should have included his punch variation and volume. His work rate and stamina are top notch.

@doctor8830

4 жыл бұрын

GOATAli Truth

i like how haters always comparing mayweather to everyone. he must b doing something right

@jasonkessler7321

5 жыл бұрын

HA HA, good point.

Terence craword is a reincarnation of pernel whitaker

@jigafox

7 жыл бұрын

I actually really like that comparison. Although at this point, I'd have to rank Sweet Pea greater. But hey, TC is young, time will tell.

@neilyringworm

7 жыл бұрын

danny urka I'm a massive Whittaker fan and saw crawford live when he beat my boy Ricky Burns over here in Scotland. you could tell he was special and it's actually not a bad comparison

@HR-jy1nb

6 жыл бұрын

Minus the crack smoke

@caseycook5674

5 жыл бұрын

danny urka i dont know about that but terrance is a beast i would say hes on the same level as whitaker

@kingmars8817

4 жыл бұрын

Crawford is close but I think Sweet Pea greater than him

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To my opinion I've been watching boxing over 40 years and Pernell Sweet Pea Whitaker was the best defensive fighter and had an excellent chin to this day even better than Floyd Mayweather because Pernell Whitaker engaged and would go toe-to-toe with you he wood box with you and brawl too Mayweather runs all the time .and all these other up and coming Fighters but Pernell Whitaker to me was the best defensive fighter all around pound for pound. I miss watching Whitaker that type of skill and that type of guts you don't see that anymore in today's Fighters he would always be the best defensive fighter in my humble opinion and the experience of watching fights and being a former fighter myself Pernell Sweet Pea Whitaker the best of all time. Then Hector Macho Camacho then Wilfredo Benitez then Mayweather jr defensive wise.

@ronaldlaury5370

7 жыл бұрын

jose Cuevas You never seen Sugar ray Robinson then

@caseycook5674

5 жыл бұрын

jose Cuevas you mention floyd hes better than chavez as well

@surgicalboxing1551

5 жыл бұрын

jose Cuevas u had me until you mentioned Hector Camacho ahead of Mayweather

@trevormadin

4 жыл бұрын

Niccolino locche not in your list?

@Latimish

4 жыл бұрын

Camacho has no business on that list. Sweet Pea, Floyd and Benitez are several levels above Camacho defensively.

Rip the greatest

He was probably the most skilled boxer of all time, I can't see no one beating a prime Pernell Whitaker.

RIP Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker.

wow the guy was never knocked out and people say he did not have a solid chin he was36and took several left hooks from tito loaded wrap trinidad with a broken jaw and these gooffy bastards say he did not have a solid chin the majority off his knock downs were when he was caught off balance the only time I ever saw him hurt was by mayweathers huge straight right then while he was on his hands and knees mayweather about tore his head off with an uppercut was the only time I saw him wobbled

Floyd got knockdown by zab super Judah in the 2nd rd..replay showed right glove hit canvas..floyd cherry picker is not untouchable..whitaker overcomes adversity and never ducked or cherry picked in his life..also a gold medalist so he can box better

@Primus912

8 жыл бұрын

I know u commented in 2014 and this is 16 but toy dumb as hell...undefeated young canelo, undefeated Ricky, strong maidana, tough Marquez, and tough Shane Mosley, list could go on but cherry pick..no...maybe the PAC fight because it was late but no

@pauliesarachelli5246

5 жыл бұрын

Angel King hater

Wow!!!! Those were some great ones you named..

In Whitaker's era there was only one p4p and his name was Julio Cesar Chavez. I followed boxing unbiasedly for 35 yrs and can say that no fighter in the world from 1985-90 was more feared than "JC Superstar", not even Mike Tyson. The Duva's never thought twice about putting Whitaker in the ring with Chavez in the '80's when Chavez was at his peak and Whitaker not once called Chavez out or challenged him. Chavez had to evacuate the 135 lb division after dismantling Rosario (another fighter Whitaker curiously never even tried to negotiate a fight with ?) to find bigger green. Love Chavez or hate him this is the truth. It wasn't until 1993, not 1988, that Whitaker finally was willing to get in bed with Chavez and not at 135, not at 140, but at 147....a weight Chavez had never fought in and could never naturally grow into. Nothing against Whitaker but it's time we put his "robbery" draw against Chavez and his proper place in p4p talk from his era into perspective. Keep it real.

@cosmokramer7396

6 жыл бұрын

Hav Risen chavez fought mostly bums.

@obiclone

5 жыл бұрын

Hav Risen if you watch the Rafael Pineda vs Pernell Whitaker fight Which took place in 1992, Pernell did call out Chavez

Met Pernell at the opening of Planet Hollywood in New York, 1991. He was With a footballplayer I only knew from the Billboards.

@davidgoldman5392

Жыл бұрын

Probably Bruce Smith. I am from Va beach and they both went to high schools together

This was the period in Sweetpea's career that he started partying hard with drugs outside the ring, he didnt put in the same hard work in camps as before and you can see he wasnt as sharp in the ring from 1995 on.

great video man and i would put him in my top 15 maybe top 10 all time

RIP Pernell Whitaker

Rip​ legend

master of defense

what is the name of the tune at 2:50?

the short mention of mike tyson they praise him damn mike u just the man

My boxer of the 90s he was p4p #1 for a fair while. Top 12 all time maybe top 10.

7:41 Song in background while he’s hitting the bag please

The best boxer I ever saw a lot of great fighters showed flashes of greatness this guy was consistently dominate from the first ramerez fight untill george benton left and even awhile after that watch the haugan fight the second ramerez fight these were champs that did not even win a round the paez and the zuma nelson fights were almost the same he pummeled these champs Ramerez said he fights like the devil nelson is in my top 5 all time and it looked like he did not even belong in the ring

Actually Jacob's gave Pernell problems because as a natural southpaw , orthodox fighters have a disadvantage of all the little details they face but Jacob's was a natural southpaw also so the little quirks that southpaws naturally have didn't work but Pernell still won but Pernell got tagged more than I ever saw against Jacobs.

Wow!!! You really think so? Glad you enjoyed it friend.

Rest in power to pernell Whitaker he beat oscar and Chavez and got robbed

JIM LAMPLEY'S HAIR, OH MY!!!!!!

anyone know what crack he used?

Wow Larry's commentary was general, yes, but also fairly accurate about pernell as he got older into Oscar and Tito :(

WILFRED BENITEZ THE BIBLE OF BOXING!!!!

@doctor8830

4 жыл бұрын

It’s sad how underrated he was, they’re fast to forget how much trouble he gave Leonard, Duran and Hearns

Rip Sweet Pea

What fight were the people watching @ 7:17

@Marz916

9 жыл бұрын

ObieG93 I believe it was George Foreman vs. Axel Schulz.

Sweet pea the man, the Trinidad fight might be great if it happen two years earlier, but a Dela Hoya match was so huge for Whitaker to resists, the only fight missing in his resume is Ike Quartey, Well I think he beats Terry Norris and pretty entertaining for Pea beating up the late Hector Camacho, from the story I remember they bumped into each other and Pernell really got irked on the macho man.

@ohmohm8627

5 жыл бұрын

@Alex Lopez idiot

Wow!!!! Really? Who would be in your top 5

Whitaker vs pac man that would of been a good. Chess match.

Wished he was a little more powerful and stopped fighting after del hoya or just never touched drugs

Too good for their own good would be Rigondeaux.

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@jaime ramirez Wtf, no Pep, Greb, Benny Lenoard???? Arguably, all top 10 p4p atgs.

Pernell vs Roy Jones Jr

@Aqua.man045

8 жыл бұрын

+King Solomon Pernell was too small for Jones.

01:13 Whitaker forgot to trim his finger nails

Tito Trinidad Is The Only Boxer That Can Say He Clearly Beat Sweetpea Without The Judges Help!

@aztecempire9970

7 жыл бұрын

Haters Have Opinion no Chavez and Oscar and the one guy who tko his azz

@ciaranfox2925

6 жыл бұрын

You think he beat de la Hoya ?? Cmon !!

@caseycook5674

5 жыл бұрын

Haters Have Opinion yeah he beat a old whitaker

@doctor8830

4 жыл бұрын

Haters Have Opinion Pernell was on his way out though

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from videos like this.........he was great but still not as good as floyd jr.. floyd would never let a guy hit him like that... or even look so sloppy.

@senorswole1442

10 жыл бұрын

Well pernell fought the best of his time so that makes him much better than floyd in a lot of people's book.

@MB-fo2sk

8 жыл бұрын

Floyd clearly had the better career, as for a fight between them to me it would be 50-50, maybe I'd slightly favour Floyd because of his size advantage, but slick southpaws like Whitaker (or today Rigondeaux) are the hardest guys to fight, period.

pernell beats mayweather

What about Benny leonard, Henry armstrong, Stanley Ketchel???? Jack dempsey? Tunney? Jack Johnson? You guys only name guys from 1940 on...step your history game up

Pernell was one of the best, but to say that "no one"? That ego is way too big. Loma, Mayweather, and there two others that come to my mind that have mastered that style. Just one of the best. Putting Pernell against Mayweather, I think Mayweather will edge him. I mean De la Hoya and Trinidad made him look ordinary, why would Mayweather not do the same?

@doctor8830

4 жыл бұрын

Mars Flee Pernell schooled De La Hoya and kept up with a young Trinidad (Pernell was on his way out btw) Loma and Mayweather have different styles to Pernell even though it was inherited by Pernell and Pernell beats up Mayweather any day of the week and twice on Sunday

@davelouie131

3 жыл бұрын

Lol stupid Comment, one Pernell Whitaker was not in his prime when he fought Oscar and he still made Oscar look silly, Oscar was 23 while Pernell was 10 years older, and Oscar said that was one his toughest fights, because of Pernell skills. come on really you brought up Trinidad who was like 24,who fought Whitaker when he had no legs 🦵. Lol Trinidad farther Trinidad Sr. Wanted to fight Pernell at the time because he came off a year lay off and they knew Pernell Whitaker was partying hard around this time, so they essentially knew Pernell wasn’t going to have no legs 🦵even though Pernell been calling out Trinidad since 95 but they didn’t respond till 1999 when Pernell had no legs 🦵.Prime Pernell Whitaker was from 88 to 94. In 1992 he beat the stew out of Harold Brazier who beat Micky Ward, he beat the stew out of Rafael Pineda who at 40 years old in 2004 gave a very young Cory Spinks and Zab Judah a run for their money. But yet Back in 1992 Pernell Whitaker dominated a prime 25 year old Rafael Pineda who just came off a Roger May-weather KO. In 1995 Pernell move up in weight and beat Julio Vasquez who just came off a KO of a young Winky Wright. In 1991 he out boxed the great Azumah Nelson. I love LOMA but lets weight till he fight someone like Oscar. LOMA still have to prove himself. Mayweather is great but he never fought no one like Pernell, Zab Judah may be the closet but then again PERNELL WHITAKER AND ZAB JUDAH share a common opponent and that’s Rafael Pineda. Pernell Whitaker fought Rafael Pineda when Pineda was a champion and he dominated Rafael Pineda in 1992 while Zab Judah struggled against a 40 year old Rafael Pineda in 2004. So comparing Zab to Pernell is like comparing Floyd to Adrian Broner, but Floyd is proven and a great but lol I’ll give Oscar credit lol because he did give Floyd and Pernell a swollen eye 👁 which is rare to do against great defensive masters like Pernell and Floyd.

A BUM NOW

@uncletony6210

4 жыл бұрын

stupid comment.