WOW MAN THIS VID IS 5 YEARS OLD.AND THAT KID SWEET PEA JUST MATURES LIKE A FINE WHISKY.WELL THATS WHAT WE SAY IN SCOTLAND.HE WAS 1 ONE OV MY FAVES.GREAT VID JOSE.
All he did in the Chavez fight was run! How do you win a fight running!?!? Pitty pat boxing should be left in the amatures. I'll give him this, he was very slick, but far from being GOAT.
A fight that I would have loved to have seen was Sweet Pea vs Meldrick Taylor; now that would've been something!
@polo81920 I agree with you pernell ran alot but he clearly outboxed chavez. Not to mention landing numerous flush shots on the iron chinned chavez. His style wasnt to fan friendly but if u stood there and slugged it out with chavez you'd look like meldrick taylor with swelling and facial fractures.
Oscar De La Hoya won the fight and sweet pea had sour grapes and its too bad he was not a big draw he was a good fighter but its seems he never could win a big fight or be PPV king he talked too much and did alot of showboating but he could not stand toe to toe he just wiggled his way
@tatertots00 Chaves fought hand picked oponents, won fights on points he shouldn't have (biased/paid off judges) and had a referee who was on his site.
Not a pound for pound, plus he got beat by sweet pea though the judges didn't seem to agree with that ;)
@ANNABECKDK Chavez was still a great fighter, an all time legend. Yes he did fight a lot of nobodies but that's because he used them to tune up for the real fights. It was his form of training and staying sharp.
He's got the best footwork of any boxer I can think of. I feel like he even moves better than Ray Leonard. Anybody out there know someone who knows their way around around the ring better than ol' P-WIddy? I know Willie Pep had legendary footwork and Ray Robinson was legendary at everything, but what about somebody in the last 30-40 years whose fights are accessible?
why are english and linguistic majors here criticizing a fighter? most guys are local guys who become successful in a sport and environment where the exchange of words wasn't the basis of their profession.
sure it would be nice for them to be more 'articulate' but hey...the man can feed his family. if that's what he's working with, damn...i accept as is. he's no more or less than i.
then you have people who speak for senseless word play...
sweet pea whatta legend! his heads been rattled tho. all boxers that have long careers get serious head injuries. its the cost of success. sucks tho. whit's only 42 in this vid and he don't sound like he's used to slurrin but whatev he's still the man. just a little tuff to see
@Abernier3 tbh he has always sounded pritty much like this , i though the same but watch his early interviews i watched one right after the olympics and he sounded the same as he does now
I dont get how a defensive wizzard like Whitaker speaks slurry and George Foreman who got hit about 12 millon times flush on the chin still speaks perfect. George got to have a kranium casted in bronze.
George doesnt have a slur because he retired soon after the Ali fight..he retired very early..thats why he was able to reserve his health..he never took clean shots in his prime until the ALI fight..he was knocking everyone out before that within the first few rounds...Pernell actually had brawls and exchanges...sorta like Mickey Ward..they have a similar slurred speech.
Didn't you watch the movie "Lean On Me", when the great Morgan Freeman says the following about crack: "It kills your brains cells, son. It kills your brain cells."
Hey fellas', Pernell is not a Harvard graduate, but he's never been a gang-banger either. He was an UNDISPUTED FOUR TIME world champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Boxing historians believe that at his prime, Pernell was 'POUND FOR POUND" the greatest fighter in the world. Enough said.
He was an undisputed lightweight champion. the titles he held at jr. welterweight, welterweight, and jr. middleweight were fragmented titles and no one... NO ONE is the pound4pound greatest fighter in the world.
His first loss should have been against Tito. The decision with Jose Luis Ramirez was bullshit and he beat Chavez easy. And I had Whitaker ahead of Oscar 7-5 on my card.
@lubui2583 Sure did watch it, watch the punch landed count, Oscar outlands Pernell, I had the fight even going into the twelth and Pernell just did not punch in the final minute of that fight. Sorry man I am not biased but Oscar did just win this fight. Had Pernell won the last round I would have given him a 1 pt. decision. Giving Pernell 6 rounds in this fight would have been generous.
@lubui2583 Sure did watch it, watch the punch landed count, Oscar outlands Pernell, I had the fight even going into the twelth and Pernell just did not punch in the final minute of that fight. Sorry man I am not biased but Oscar did just win this fight. Had Pernell won the last round I would have given him a 1 pt. decision. Giving Pernell 6 rounds in this fight would have been generous.
de la hoya won and sweet pea fought alot of taxi cab drivers this guy could not fill arenas not an exciting fighter to much show boat and likes to dance like a girl look at the de la hoya fight the way he was acting or was he or she I for one do not miss this guy out of sight out of mind
This video makes me like him more. But he lost to DLH fair and square. The sad part is he could have easily won the fight if he was more serious. He wasn't robbed against DLH. Other than that good interview.
No one could really beat this man, and in my opinion he was the hardest boxer to beat. The reason being is that he didn't go in there to brawl, he first study his opponents and then he calculated how to wear them down. He was boxing's mathmatician. That's why I respect fighters like him and the late Salvador Sanchez, because they were master tacticians who found ways to dismantled some truly heavy punchers.
Sweet Pea is good but he was just that a sweet Pea in boxing, he doesn't cross the line of the ultimate greats. Duran, Salvador Sanchez, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, Pryor, Julian Jackson, Arguello, Wilfredo Gomez, Wifredo Benitez... These guys were the bastards of their day. Every guy I named could put Whitaker out with one punch. Julian Jackson had the best knockout ratio of his time, Leonard's combinations, Duran ferociousness, Benitez king of the sweet science and don't let me start on Pryor!
what you fail (maybe) to realize is that most of the fighters you named were heavier fighters than whitaker ,in his weight class (lightweight) he would outbox any of those guys.
Chavez wouldnt have been able to handle Duran. He was a very good fighter but Duran's power was just to much.for a lot of fighter's and Chavez would have been one of them.
Drug's and age took whitaker out. But no one can dispute in his prime he was one of the best pfp fighter's ever. Trini woudn't have had a chance with whitaker in his prime. Period. One more thing, Ray leonard was also one of the greatest ever and no one could beat him in his prime other than duran and he was said to be on drug's the first fight. But ,man could he hit.
.Hagler was one of the best brawler's ever. He also was a very good boxer. When i think of Hagler i would categorize him and duran as two of the best all out brawler's and there weren't many that could brawl with them. Box with them, yes, brawl...... no
Your mad in his prime Trinidad was unstoppable. Go back and check his fights especially against Yori Boy Campus. Yori was 50-1 with about 45 knockouts, he hit Felix with everything and the Felix hit back and that was the end of the fight. For you to make that comment shows your just a watcher of Boxing you never been in the ring. Anybody who has ever boxed would know that Pernell chances of winning would be slim because he would not want to engage Felix who was at his most powerful at that age!
Whitaker better than Duran, what the hell are you smoking. Sweet pea didn't have the skill or heart of Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran whup his ass in the first fight.
sweet pea didnt have the skill or heart.?when he was past his best he went twelve rounds with a prime tito trinidad with a broken jaw...he got off the canvas twice and was behind on points to knock out hurtado...,whitaker is one of the best fighter's in history..
not the time dude. Speaking of time. P was way past his best when he fought Trinidad. Greatest - PLEASE - The greatest win there big fights against other greats. Trinidad LOST when he fought great fighters. And no, he didn't beat DLH - That was some bull - youtube it and DEAL w/ it.
No one is debating that fight between Delahoya and Trinidad, but Delahoya lost mad fans after that fight because he was not willing to go all out even Delahoya said it himself, that is why he fought Ike Quartay aggressively. Trinidad though was a much more exciting fighter than Delahoya and Whitaker two fighters who rather look good that fight. Its Boxing not Tennis.
God he sounds retared, best welterweight, get real, have people forgot Sugar ray robinson, Wilfredo Benitez, Jose napoles, must I go on, please get real.
A harder fight to beat at LW!? More talented!? The ducks and dodges look more talented, but it is a very flashy style of fighting, Duran could evade as well as the best of them and if you want to compare the power of both fighters? Well you cannot say that Whitaker was the harder hitter.
Could a past prime Pernell Whitaker step out of his weight class and perform as well against Hagler or Leonard? I love Pernell Whitaker, but prime vs prime I believe that Duran at lightweight is unbeatable.
When Whitaker fought a much bigger fighter in Felix Trinidad he was soundly beaten, albeit I cannot claim that it was a prime Pernell Whitaker. But if you look at Whitakers big fights, he beat Chavez, he beat DLH (even though the decision went against him), he beat Vasquez - but I do not believe that even Chavez or DLH are up there with Leonard or Haglers class.
Possibly the greatest Welterweight ever, I am a huge Whitaker fan. But best lightweight?! For me, it is definately Roberto Duran. I am very sure of that.
fuck this punk!! yeah according to him he was robbed against ramirez, chavez, and DLH, no way, he lost those fights , all he didi was throw some sissy punches, hugged, ran, cheated. Watch the end of his fights, he was actually running away!! even when he was the favorite vs Paez, he hugged like a girl in the last round!!! and vs DLH he ran the marathon.
By the way he's a hall of famer, 4-time world champ, former p4p king and ring magazine voted him as the best defensive fighter ever He WAS robbed against Ramirez the first timre but won the rematch by a wide margin so it doesn't really matter
you don't win fucking 4 world tittles running like a girl dumb ass idiot. you probably a pussy who don't even box. you obviously don't understand boxing. the object of the game is to hit and not get hit.
Sweet Pea is a true legend and I'm glad he made it into the Boxing Hall of Fame. He worked hard for it. I also love the fact that he always supports the up and coming boxers.
Whitaker, from the time he made his debut up until now, has always sounded like this. His cocaine problems did not to him any favors, however. He took very little punishment in the ring because his defense was damn near immaculate.
ur on fucken smack,, how the fuck could duran have beaten pernell??? de la hoya had faster hands than duran and couldnt land a clean shot?? how the fuck could duran catch pernell??? maybe with a fucken fishing net
RAY LEONARD!!! who was 2x better then DLH IN EVERY ASPECT OF HIS GAME.Learn some boxing before you open your mouth.Just because you have a major attribute doesnt mean you gonna win....SKILL WINS FIGHT...PERIOD.
everyone talks about willie pep. this man is the greatest defensive genius ever. no one will ever match his defensive skills, "NO ONE". he was robbed countless times and always left it up to the fans. class act. miss him, i mean damn gave a young hungry trindad his hardest fight.
slur speech isn't an affect of cocain u dumbass unless u overdose and thats even a rare side affect. he never overdosed his slurred speech comes from punishment in the ring if u saw his fights u would know immediatly y he sounds like that. and that is y floyd mayweather is so defensive because there's life after boxing. its sad because whitaker is 42 in this interview
cocain doesn't give u slurs dumbass unless u had a overdose and that is a rare side affect of an overdose. pernell never had an overdose that slur is from punishment in the ring. have u seen his fights he took so many punches because he doesn't stop fighting he shows heart but thats why floyd mayweather is so defensive because there's life after boxing pernell is 42years old in this interview. floyd doesn't wanna end up like that.
Pernell Whitaker was one of the greatest of all times. it's too bad he was hooked on coke. he was robbed from chavez, de la hoya. he either drunk here or brain damage from cocaine. sweet pea never got hit inside the ring. he is the legend in defensive boxing no doubt!
hopefull he was just drunk during this interview, and doesn't have any long standing health problems. He really was one of the greatest ever, and probably would have beaten Ray Leonard at welter and Duran at lightweight.
I love you man.
cdn20782 2 months ago
One of the best boxers I look up to really. The best man in the game yes he is.
Brickcityboi440 5 months ago
WOW MAN THIS VID IS 5 YEARS OLD.AND THAT KID SWEET PEA JUST MATURES LIKE A FINE WHISKY.WELL THATS WHAT WE SAY IN SCOTLAND.HE WAS 1 ONE OV MY FAVES.GREAT VID JOSE.
RandyMarsh911 8 months ago
he didnt get hit much in his career so it must of been the drugs that have slurred his speech
kareemabdullah 8 months ago
who he likes?
gsg9ff 8 months ago
Whitaker got robbed man times. Especially against Mexican boxers.
SoulfulLova 10 months ago
Pernell Whitaker is a bitch and Parnell you are NOT A FIGHTER you son of a bitch !!!!!!!
36predator 10 months ago
@36predator you don't know shit about boxing man. sorry.......
dalastdon1432 9 months ago
All he did in the Chavez fight was run! How do you win a fight running!?!? Pitty pat boxing should be left in the amatures. I'll give him this, he was very slick, but far from being GOAT.
A fight that I would have loved to have seen was Sweet Pea vs Meldrick Taylor; now that would've been something!
polo81920 10 months ago
@polo81920 GFive me a break. Whitaker beat Chavez fair and square.
SoulfulLova 10 months ago
@SoulfulLova i think pernel barley one that fight though he landed a few more punches than chavez
phillyshell94 10 months ago
@phillyshell94 But he won the fight though?
SoulfulLova 10 months ago
@SoulfulLova yea true but im mexican so its kinda hard to admit that he beat a legend like chavez but yes putting race aside pernel won
phillyshell94 10 months ago
@phillyshell94 way to speak the truth, your the first true mexican, way to keep it real dude, cool shit
nae8man87 7 months ago
@polo81920 I agree with you pernell ran alot but he clearly outboxed chavez. Not to mention landing numerous flush shots on the iron chinned chavez. His style wasnt to fan friendly but if u stood there and slugged it out with chavez you'd look like meldrick taylor with swelling and facial fractures.
tharealdeal19 10 months ago
G.O.A.T
H~
hichcoc 10 months ago
i dont care wut nobody say pernell is da best and he never lost 2 de la hoya, they cheated him and he never lost 2 chavez either
PaiprBoi 11 months ago
i dont care wut nobody say pernell is da best
PaiprBoi 11 months ago
Why does his voice sound so sluggish. Is he punch drunk?
Shorty20122012 11 months ago
A fight between him and Duran at 135 would have been one of the best ever.
dhuang8 11 months ago 2
@dhuang8 woulda been the best ever!!!!
macwit2cs 10 months ago
If you take out the politics Pernell is one of the 20 greatest of all time.
dhuang8 1 year ago 6
Oscar De La Hoya won the fight and sweet pea had sour grapes and its too bad he was not a big draw he was a good fighter but its seems he never could win a big fight or be PPV king he talked too much and did alot of showboating but he could not stand toe to toe he just wiggled his way
p4pzone 1 year ago
Why does pernell sound like he from new york or something
Cezer35 1 year ago
is it just me or does he really Slur????
Ahmet1445 1 year ago
Hey ! How about Wilfredo Benitez ? He had great footwork and can fight of the ropes and beat you!
superjoe6 1 year ago
Bull crap Pernell was NEVER the best pound for pound fighter
It went Duran for most of the 70s and until the early 80s when he lost to
Leonard until his 1st retirement
then Pryor
then Hagler
then Leonard again
then Chavez
Then Roy Jones Jr from 1994 until he went up to heavyweight in the 2000s
tatertots00 1 year ago
@tatertots00 nah arguello and pernell at some stage where the best fighters in the world
even if only for a week
johnosandra 1 year ago
@tatertots00 respect for having the knowledge to put pryor in there alot of so fans dont know who he is
the macho man was a great fighter for a period of time
johnosandra 1 year ago
@tatertots00 Chaves fought hand picked oponents, won fights on points he shouldn't have (biased/paid off judges) and had a referee who was on his site.
Not a pound for pound, plus he got beat by sweet pea though the judges didn't seem to agree with that ;)
ANNABECKDK 1 year ago
@ANNABECKDK LOL Chavez fought EVERY single contender at 140 he hand picked NO ONE.
tatertots00 1 year ago
@tatertots00 Nah they were hand picked, plus was beat by sweet pea so sweet pea should be ranked higher.
ANNABECKDK 1 year ago
@ANNABECKDK Name someone who he ducked?
tatertots00 1 year ago
@ANNABECKDK Chavez was still a great fighter, an all time legend. Yes he did fight a lot of nobodies but that's because he used them to tune up for the real fights. It was his form of training and staying sharp.
dhuang8 10 months ago
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tatertots00 1 year ago
sounds like the interviewer may have taken a few too many shots to the head himself.
paragshah2112 1 year ago
I'M 42 YEARS OLD!
budtheshecc 1 year ago
my favorite boxer of all time forever!!!!! God bless you Pernell!~!!!
akilddddd 1 year ago
He's obviously drunk or stoned...or both.:P
Jorsalfar 1 year ago
i love pernell whitaker he's my 7th favorite fighter ever.
AliRidah619 1 year ago
He's got the best footwork of any boxer I can think of. I feel like he even moves better than Ray Leonard. Anybody out there know someone who knows their way around around the ring better than ol' P-WIddy? I know Willie Pep had legendary footwork and Ray Robinson was legendary at everything, but what about somebody in the last 30-40 years whose fights are accessible?
ernhutch187 1 year ago
Typical ghetto guy.
budfr 1 year ago
Thanks you, Sweet Pea. I pray you fine success outside the ring as you found during your career.
voodoo4life 1 year ago 2
damn he slurring his speech. not my man !!!!! lmao.
lubui2583 1 year ago
one of the greatest fighters of our time
ikarljoseph 1 year ago
@ikarljoseph hell yeah.
lubui2583 1 year ago
He aint a damn legend. I could never stand this fucking prick. He was faking the supposed pain in his shoulder when he lost in four rounds to Carlos.
khalsasikh 1 year ago
dude pernell ur the fuckin man, i love watching ur fights
SickAudi 1 year ago
one of the most underated fighters of all time.
GoldenRageTV 1 year ago
zab aint shit hes all mouth now.
mike2hype 1 year ago
Perhaps THE greatest left handed fighter ever.
arachtinilith 1 year ago
dam! whats a mess
Chaz770 1 year ago
@Chaz770 u hear the slurring in his speech.... damn!!!! i cant watch anymore
lubui2583 1 year ago
yes it is DEFAMATION of the highest order
He is a legend and known as one of the best ever even here in Dublin, btw Winky was robbed too - a black southpaw too
ikarljoseph 1 year ago
@ikarljoseph winky = garbage
HandsOfStone17 1 year ago
wot a perfect defantion of the perfect boxer PERNELL WHITIKER
lefthookid 2 years ago
THIS MAN HAS GREAT DEFENSE WELL DID WTV
Blackjesus3 2 years ago
Pernell is high!
PeteLarryMaravichBir 2 years ago
why are english and linguistic majors here criticizing a fighter? most guys are local guys who become successful in a sport and environment where the exchange of words wasn't the basis of their profession.
sure it would be nice for them to be more 'articulate' but hey...the man can feed his family. if that's what he's working with, damn...i accept as is. he's no more or less than i.
then you have people who speak for senseless word play...
people always find something to put you down.
doctorsizzle 2 years ago 13
@doctorsizzle ...lolol... yeah like 16 guys graded an English paper then decided to watch a video about fighters!
budtheshecc 1 year ago
@doctorsizzle You might as well be a English major for such a beautiful comment, written 2 years ago ;)
ThyChrysanthemum 1 week ago
This guy was probably the greatest welterweight in the last 30 years definitely top 5 of all time.
mychalpryor24 2 years ago
REAL TALK!
skeetizie 2 years ago
Im sure the crack didn t help.
mfergy514 2 years ago
sweet pea whatta legend! his heads been rattled tho. all boxers that have long careers get serious head injuries. its the cost of success. sucks tho. whit's only 42 in this vid and he don't sound like he's used to slurrin but whatev he's still the man. just a little tuff to see
Abernier3 2 years ago
@Abernier3 tbh he has always sounded pritty much like this , i though the same but watch his early interviews i watched one right after the olympics and he sounded the same as he does now
SatansTVrepairman 2 years ago
false.
Abernier3 2 years ago
Well said Sweet Pea !!!
holmes1978 2 years ago
I dont get how a defensive wizzard like Whitaker speaks slurry and George Foreman who got hit about 12 millon times flush on the chin still speaks perfect. George got to have a kranium casted in bronze.
Doderhultarn89 2 years ago
George doesnt have a slur because he retired soon after the Ali fight..he retired very early..thats why he was able to reserve his health..he never took clean shots in his prime until the ALI fight..he was knocking everyone out before that within the first few rounds...Pernell actually had brawls and exchanges...sorta like Mickey Ward..they have a similar slurred speech.
00tara00 2 years ago
He always had the slurr. It wasn't from boxing.
longjumpersrule 2 years ago
@Doderhultarn89
Didn't you watch the movie "Lean On Me", when the great Morgan Freeman says the following about crack: "It kills your brains cells, son. It kills your brain cells."
Sweat Pea is my favorite fighter of all time...
thetruthis9 2 years ago
In the top 20 of all time.
drevalwil 2 years ago
Hey fellas', Pernell is not a Harvard graduate, but he's never been a gang-banger either. He was an UNDISPUTED FOUR TIME world champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Boxing historians believe that at his prime, Pernell was 'POUND FOR POUND" the greatest fighter in the world. Enough said.
projectbojinka 2 years ago 2
Sweet Pea was a super nice fighter.
nutt3r 2 years ago
He was an undisputed lightweight champion. the titles he held at jr. welterweight, welterweight, and jr. middleweight were fragmented titles and no one... NO ONE is the pound4pound greatest fighter in the world.
GohModley 2 years ago
pernell whitaker's gangsta
frassut 2 years ago
Whats going on with him now? I hear he got arrested for doing drugs or some shit.
tacoandbeer 2 years ago
it's sad when you see what boxing does to their speech. I can see it's starting to happen with Shane now.
j2smooth30 2 years ago 4
sweet pea also had a lot of drug problems
bobjimjones 2 years ago
nah thats just the drugs haha
riskyshotz 2 years ago 2
what was his voice like before?
squarecnix 2 years ago
nah its the drugs,pernell hardly took any punches in his whole career
dhlfh 2 years ago
its not becuase of boxing hes talking like that the man never got hit hes just into alot of drugs and drinking startubg to get to him
TheBlack9999 2 years ago
i love pernell whitaker great defence man
boxingrapandrnb 2 years ago 4
thank you sweat pea for only caring who your fans think won.. FUCK JUDGES.. their fat pigs that sit on there asses...
This fan thinks you never lost a fight!!
much love. and RIP ARTURO GATTI.
ITiZthiZZ 2 years ago 7
His first loss should have been against Tito. The decision with Jose Luis Ramirez was bullshit and he beat Chavez easy. And I had Whitaker ahead of Oscar 7-5 on my card.
dhuang8 2 years ago 29
@dhuang8 No way you can give Whitaker 7 rounds against Oscar, I had Oscar win that fight by 1 pt after the knock down 7 rounds to 5.
casasjohn2000 1 year ago
@casasjohn2000 nah he whipped oscar. watch the fight again closely
lubui2583 1 year ago
@lubui2583 Sure did watch it, watch the punch landed count, Oscar outlands Pernell, I had the fight even going into the twelth and Pernell just did not punch in the final minute of that fight. Sorry man I am not biased but Oscar did just win this fight. Had Pernell won the last round I would have given him a 1 pt. decision. Giving Pernell 6 rounds in this fight would have been generous.
casasjohn2000 1 year ago
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@lubui2583 Sure did watch it, watch the punch landed count, Oscar outlands Pernell, I had the fight even going into the twelth and Pernell just did not punch in the final minute of that fight. Sorry man I am not biased but Oscar did just win this fight. Had Pernell won the last round I would have given him a 1 pt. decision. Giving Pernell 6 rounds in this fight would have been generous.
casasjohn2000 1 year ago
de la hoya won and sweet pea fought alot of taxi cab drivers this guy could not fill arenas not an exciting fighter to much show boat and likes to dance like a girl look at the de la hoya fight the way he was acting or was he or she I for one do not miss this guy out of sight out of mind
p4pzone 1 year ago
@dhuang8 his first lost should had come against jorge paez
thebigasskilla 11 months ago
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AceRagger 7 months ago
This video makes me like him more. But he lost to DLH fair and square. The sad part is he could have easily won the fight if he was more serious. He wasn't robbed against DLH. Other than that good interview.
Haplotype0 2 years ago 3
i dont care what nebody say pernell was never beat in his time he beat oscar too thank u sweet pea for all the great fights pernells da man
TheCmackAttack 2 years ago 30
@TheCmackAttack jorge paez beat him but robbed him
thebigasskilla 11 months ago
@TheCmackAttack He sure did..!!!
He won that fight!!!
H~
hichcoc 10 months ago
he was a legend! too bad he got captured in louisana airway with 300g coke hes in prison now
zagi1able 2 years ago 2
that's how chavez , ramirez did to sweet pea lol he talked stupid now
gotzillllla 2 years ago
datz watz up, my boy sweet pea a legend
MGMGrandWBC 2 years ago 2
My second fav after Hagler...top fighter and top bloke...what a great boxer should be i.e a inspiration to all...Thank you Sweet Pea...
robjp07 2 years ago 3
never was knocked out fought everybody
jaxxcapone 2 years ago 4
No one could really beat this man, and in my opinion he was the hardest boxer to beat. The reason being is that he didn't go in there to brawl, he first study his opponents and then he calculated how to wear them down. He was boxing's mathmatician. That's why I respect fighters like him and the late Salvador Sanchez, because they were master tacticians who found ways to dismantled some truly heavy punchers.
osvie01 2 years ago
i agree floyd and whitcker would have made a great fight . Of course when it come to skills.
1564854 2 years ago
Sweet Pea is good but he was just that a sweet Pea in boxing, he doesn't cross the line of the ultimate greats. Duran, Salvador Sanchez, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, Pryor, Julian Jackson, Arguello, Wilfredo Gomez, Wifredo Benitez... These guys were the bastards of their day. Every guy I named could put Whitaker out with one punch. Julian Jackson had the best knockout ratio of his time, Leonard's combinations, Duran ferociousness, Benitez king of the sweet science and don't let me start on Pryor!
vincespell 2 years ago
what you fail (maybe) to realize is that most of the fighters you named were heavier fighters than whitaker ,in his weight class (lightweight) he would outbox any of those guys.
publikenamee 2 years ago
One of the GOAT! Sweet Pea!
district644 2 years ago 4
Chavez wouldnt have been able to handle Duran. He was a very good fighter but Duran's power was just to much.for a lot of fighter's and Chavez would have been one of them.
district644 2 years ago
Drug's and age took whitaker out. But no one can dispute in his prime he was one of the best pfp fighter's ever. Trini woudn't have had a chance with whitaker in his prime. Period. One more thing, Ray leonard was also one of the greatest ever and no one could beat him in his prime other than duran and he was said to be on drug's the first fight. But ,man could he hit.
district644 2 years ago 2
what about hagler. that fight was great.
ceII0x 2 years ago
.Hagler was one of the best brawler's ever. He also was a very good boxer. When i think of Hagler i would categorize him and duran as two of the best all out brawler's and there weren't many that could brawl with them. Box with them, yes, brawl...... no
district644 2 years ago
Your mad in his prime Trinidad was unstoppable. Go back and check his fights especially against Yori Boy Campus. Yori was 50-1 with about 45 knockouts, he hit Felix with everything and the Felix hit back and that was the end of the fight. For you to make that comment shows your just a watcher of Boxing you never been in the ring. Anybody who has ever boxed would know that Pernell chances of winning would be slim because he would not want to engage Felix who was at his most powerful at that age!
vincespell 2 years ago
Whitaker better than Duran, what the hell are you smoking. Sweet pea didn't have the skill or heart of Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran whup his ass in the first fight.
cosmic112 2 years ago
sweet pea didnt have the skill or heart.?when he was past his best he went twelve rounds with a prime tito trinidad with a broken jaw...he got off the canvas twice and was behind on points to knock out hurtado...,whitaker is one of the best fighter's in history..
dhlfh 2 years ago 4
Then you woke up.
cosmic112 2 years ago
i woke up?please inform me on anything that ive said that is false or untrue..
dhlfh 2 years ago
trinidad is the best ever,he always fought the best in boxing
betta144 2 years ago
not the time dude. Speaking of time. P was way past his best when he fought Trinidad. Greatest - PLEASE - The greatest win there big fights against other greats. Trinidad LOST when he fought great fighters. And no, he didn't beat DLH - That was some bull - youtube it and DEAL w/ it.
1stplates 2 years ago
No one is debating that fight between Delahoya and Trinidad, but Delahoya lost mad fans after that fight because he was not willing to go all out even Delahoya said it himself, that is why he fought Ike Quartay aggressively. Trinidad though was a much more exciting fighter than Delahoya and Whitaker two fighters who rather look good that fight. Its Boxing not Tennis.
cosmic112 2 years ago
God he sounds retared, best welterweight, get real, have people forgot Sugar ray robinson, Wilfredo Benitez, Jose napoles, must I go on, please get real.
cosmic112 2 years ago
nona those guys woulda been able to hit him on his best day
1stplates 2 years ago
A harder fight to beat at LW!? More talented!? The ducks and dodges look more talented, but it is a very flashy style of fighting, Duran could evade as well as the best of them and if you want to compare the power of both fighters? Well you cannot say that Whitaker was the harder hitter.
Could a past prime Pernell Whitaker step out of his weight class and perform as well against Hagler or Leonard? I love Pernell Whitaker, but prime vs prime I believe that Duran at lightweight is unbeatable.
Adebay0r 2 years ago
When Whitaker fought a much bigger fighter in Felix Trinidad he was soundly beaten, albeit I cannot claim that it was a prime Pernell Whitaker. But if you look at Whitakers big fights, he beat Chavez, he beat DLH (even though the decision went against him), he beat Vasquez - but I do not believe that even Chavez or DLH are up there with Leonard or Haglers class.
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huakklise 2 years ago
He lost a decision to Esteban De Jesus at LW, I do believe.
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huakklise 2 years ago
Possibly the greatest Welterweight ever, I am a huge Whitaker fan. But best lightweight?! For me, it is definately Roberto Duran. I am very sure of that.
Adebay0r 2 years ago
duran was a punchbag
luigi12356 2 years ago
De La Hoya fell from one of those "sissy" punches.
mdriddler 2 years ago
ha ha tito beat your ass
picklepark111 3 years ago
fuck this punk!! yeah according to him he was robbed against ramirez, chavez, and DLH, no way, he lost those fights , all he didi was throw some sissy punches, hugged, ran, cheated. Watch the end of his fights, he was actually running away!! even when he was the favorite vs Paez, he hugged like a girl in the last round!!! and vs DLH he ran the marathon.
budfr 3 years ago
ok that's why the cover of SI after the chavez fight was "Robbed"
ragingbullbouncer 3 years ago
By the way he's a hall of famer, 4-time world champ, former p4p king and ring magazine voted him as the best defensive fighter ever He WAS robbed against Ramirez the first timre but won the rematch by a wide margin so it doesn't really matter
ragingbullbouncer 3 years ago 3
you don't win fucking 4 world tittles running like a girl dumb ass idiot. you probably a pussy who don't even box. you obviously don't understand boxing. the object of the game is to hit and not get hit.
tremone21 3 years ago 2
Wow! How can a defensive wizard like Whitaker be punch drunk and George Foreman still can speak clearly?
preo2 3 years ago 3
probably too much cocaine
bobjimjones 3 years ago
Slurred speech. Sad. Like most of the greats.
Donarudo88 3 years ago 3
I grew up watching Sweet Pea on HBO. He was the man
stell29 3 years ago 7
Pea one of the best ever
Allinone478 3 years ago 10
Damn he sounds ALL fucked up.
josephsolisone 3 years ago
Sweet Pea is a true legend and I'm glad he made it into the Boxing Hall of Fame. He worked hard for it. I also love the fact that he always supports the up and coming boxers.
mstia127 3 years ago 7
(LOL) i was going to name mhyy son pernell. but dehn sumthn happnd. lolz sorry so RANDOM rite ?
uhm yeh
TepOeSKANK 3 years ago
Pernell seems like he's been on the Cider. Haha! Had a defence that even Floyd Mayweather would envy. A true legend!
st5188B 3 years ago
I doubt that!
achillesandroscoe 3 years ago
What the fuck do you know!
TWAT!
st5188B 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i know that whitaker has nowhere near the defense that floyd mayweather has!
achillesandroscoe 3 years ago
What ever!
st5188B 3 years ago
bullshit ur boy floyd idolized sweet pea he's like Zab Judah a wannabe Pernell
ragingbullbouncer 3 years ago
haha yeah your dumbass is right!!
achillesandroscoe 3 years ago
if you read about sweet pea on wikipedia it says he got arrested for possesion of cocaine, that sucks. well he gave us some great fights
Stefanoitch 3 years ago
Whitaker, from the time he made his debut up until now, has always sounded like this. His cocaine problems did not to him any favors, however. He took very little punishment in the ring because his defense was damn near immaculate.
ihatelifejosemartine 3 years ago
it's punch drunk, not cocaine use. His sluggish facial mannerisms tell it all.
strafer 3 years ago
Listen to him.
rastabus 3 years ago
ur on fucken smack,, how the fuck could duran have beaten pernell??? de la hoya had faster hands than duran and couldnt land a clean shot?? how the fuck could duran catch pernell??? maybe with a fucken fishing net
pugile80 3 years ago
your a fucking retarded.... Duran fought SUGAR
RAY LEONARD!!! who was 2x better then DLH IN EVERY ASPECT OF HIS GAME.Learn some boxing before you open your mouth.Just because you have a major attribute doesnt mean you gonna win....SKILL WINS FIGHT...PERIOD.
swordgod 3 years ago
Duran would have fuck him up, talking pernel
gquezvas 3 years ago
duran wouldnt have landed shit on pernel
pugile80 3 years ago 8
effortlessly got out of the way of punches, shame he's had so many problems since he retired, love him though
boxingkid89 3 years ago 3
My all time great.
Thank you for the great memory's.
If Chavez got humiliated how can Duran do it ? almost the same style.. and we all saw what happened when Leonard boxed him. "No Mas" :)
236 3 years ago
What a champion! True legend
neolamanite 3 years ago
i agree,,, pernell belongs with the all time greats :)
pugile80 3 years ago
everyone talks about willie pep. this man is the greatest defensive genius ever. no one will ever match his defensive skills, "NO ONE". he was robbed countless times and always left it up to the fans. class act. miss him, i mean damn gave a young hungry trindad his hardest fight.
moe167 3 years ago
LOL at people talking mostly about his speech.
tropics1020 3 years ago
slur speech isn't an affect of cocain u dumbass unless u overdose and thats even a rare side affect. he never overdosed his slurred speech comes from punishment in the ring if u saw his fights u would know immediatly y he sounds like that. and that is y floyd mayweather is so defensive because there's life after boxing. its sad because whitaker is 42 in this interview
younglion333 3 years ago
cocain doesn't give u slurs dumbass unless u had a overdose and that is a rare side affect of an overdose. pernell never had an overdose that slur is from punishment in the ring. have u seen his fights he took so many punches because he doesn't stop fighting he shows heart but thats why floyd mayweather is so defensive because there's life after boxing pernell is 42years old in this interview. floyd doesn't wanna end up like that.
younglion333 3 years ago
Pernell Whitaker was one of the greatest of all times. it's too bad he was hooked on coke. he was robbed from chavez, de la hoya. he either drunk here or brain damage from cocaine. sweet pea never got hit inside the ring. he is the legend in defensive boxing no doubt!
moelicious416 3 years ago
hopefull he was just drunk during this interview, and doesn't have any long standing health problems. He really was one of the greatest ever, and probably would have beaten Ray Leonard at welter and Duran at lightweight.
bluenote71 3 years ago
Duran would have beat his ass.
WikipediaRules 3 years ago