Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker Career Highlight

Career highlights of the boxing genius, defensive wizard, and all around masterful technician : Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker. Whitaker captured gold at the 1984 Olympics, and parlayed that success into a storied professional career, earning himself many accolades, and multiple world championships along the way.

Among said accolades and world titles, Whitaker captured:

WBC Lightweight title
WBA Lightweight title
IBF Lightweight title
NABF Lightweight title
IBF Junior Welterweight title
WBC Welterweight title
WBA Light Middleweight title
"Fighter of the Year" - 1989
Induction into the "International Boxing Hall of Fame" in 2007
Induction into the "World Boxing Hall of Fame" in 2008

And "bullet time" (first popularized by the film "The Matrix") may, or may not, have drawn it's inspiration from Whitaker's uncanny defensive abilities.......

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[DAV1EBOYEE510]

Pactards would hate watching this video...TOO MUCH TECHNIQUE FOR THEIR ASS!!

[jimpurdie]

sweet pea beats floyd at 147pounds

[miketyson2995]

Poli Díaz "El Potro de Vallecas", que gran boxeador!

[trueblue724]

@tezmack52 get off his dick already,the only reason floyd is still undefeated is because he keeps ducking the fighters that he knows will give him problems

[trueblue724]

@DDeCouto i love pacquiao,and i love whitaker,but what does pacquiao have anything to do with sweet pea!?

[DDeCouto]

@DAV1EBOYEE510 LOL most Pactards don't even know who Pernell Whitaker is.

[JTANKDAMVP]

@DAV1EBOYEE510 no pacquiao fans wud love this cz he coming forward trying 2 gt ko's... pac fans dnt like pac for his tech dey like him 4 aggression and excitement which pernell has so no pac fans like this cz ima a pac fan and i enjoy which witiker and roy jones, and mayweather b4 2008

[jimpurdie]

@tezmack52 so were another 11 also then cause they agree im tellin you sweet pea had a 2 times better defense than floyd!

[MrSonnyBlood]

@checklefthook NO WAY

[tezmack52]

why is there so many mayweather haters ever video people watch there comparing the fighter to floyd they say ever fighter that came befor floyd would have beat him will to bad we can't see that so stop wishing an hoping to see floyd lose an repect the 42 an 0 bitch ( an just for the record floyd is the king at ajusting to any style of boxing).

[tezmack52]

@jimpurdie YOU MUST HAVE BEEN HIGH WHEN YOU WROTE THAT

[shaqthatguy]

pernell whitaker is my FAVOURITE boxer of all time. this is who i train to fight like- WATCH MY BOXING FIGHT ON MY CHANNEL. i was suppose to be entering the Olympics this year but a couple tragedies happened