Azumah Nelson - Defensive Skills of The Professor

Defensive highlights of the all time great 2 weight world champion.
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Azumah Nelson - Is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2008. He was a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC featherweight title from 1984 to 1987 and the WBC super-featherweight title twice between 1988 and 1997. He also challenged once for the unified WBC and IBF lightweight titles in 1990. At regional level he held the ABU, and Commonwealth featherweight titles between 1980 and 1982. Widely considered one of the greatest African boxers of all time.
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[@hanzagod]

While Azumah Nelson is remembered as an all time great and a brilliant swarmer/pressure fighter, his defense was also an excellent addition to his skill set. The Professor had a wide array of defensive moves that helped him in defeating some of the greatest fighters of his era. Truly one of the all time greats at 126/130 lbs and arguably Africa's greatest boxer ever! www.patreon.com/haNZAgod

[@corytclark]

Azumah definitely was a come-forward fighter who swarmed his opponents with pressure and punches, he was also a brilliant and dangerous counterpuncher.

[@alrennelli1604]

Would love to see “Kid Gavilán: Beautiful Jab and Explosive Lead Hooks.” If I’m not mistaken, it’s been a few years since your last Gavilán highlight, and his style makes his film is easy to go through -even Gavilán’s lateral movement and pure boxing is exciting to see. Besides that, a (all-in-one) tribute to the French Middleweight contenders of the 1950’s would be a fun video to make. Pierre Langlois had a pretty violent fight with Giardello, Marcel Pigou finished Lausse (film is in horrible quality), and I believe Charles Humez has a couple of finishes on KZbin. Not enough film of any of them to make an individual highlight, but probably enough combined to make a highlight out of it. Either way, thank you for all work mate.

[@mmastiff734]

Azumah vs Johnny Famechon would be a great fantasy match up

[@adultjames3097]

What song did you use in your Napoles-Technical Excellence video?

[@leonthefreon6765]

The way he gets out of range and than back into range to throw his counters is a thing of beauty.

[@brodiethegoaty849]

My dad left me with a VHS full of Nelson's highlights before he exited my life. Thankful. I won multiple scuffles and fights by studying and applying.

[@aiyahuntacheimumbi236]

Your dad did you right👏R.I.P.🙏

[@stevedumanski3301]

Your old man is a legend in my book.

[@melvintate8186]

Nelson was a Great fighter and enjoy those Vhs tapes and God bless your dad!!

[@TheNeorch]

That's one good dad ya got,farewell to him.

[@hfmarwen189]

Cross guard , phillyshell.high guard such an underated fighter

[@frankiey9943]

Bro I was jus thinkin this. This dude literally used bout 3-4 different styles and looked impeccable in all. He’s the closet thing to Henry Armstrong I’ve ever seen. He’s a mix of Armstrong, Archie Moore and even a lil bit of D’Amato peek a boo and shifts. This dude is amazing

[@TheNeorch]

​@@frankiey9943he literally took George Benton, Winky Wright, Archie Moore and Jose Torres all the same time

[@corytclark]

Fun fact: Roy Jones Jr. is sometimes credited as the only fighter in CompuBox history to go an entire round without letting his opponent land a single punch, when in the 4th round against Vinny Pazienza, Vinny went 0/5 in total punches (0/4 jabs and 0/1 power punches). HOWEVER, if you were to look up Azumah Nelson’s fight against Wilfredo Gomez, CompuBox shows that Gomez landed 0/40 shots against Nelson in the 1st round!! Gomez was 0/10 for power punches and 0/30 for jabs!!

[@UntouchableBreakdowns]

Compubox gets things wrong a lot so sometimes it can add a punch or few without anything landing. Not saying in this case particularly as Nelson did go a round without being hit, in fact many fighters do sometimes. Roy is another popular name so he 100% isn’t the only go to do it, not by a long shot as there’s been many. Thank you for this information 🤝

[@corytclark]

@@UntouchableBreakdowns I wouldn’t be at all shocked to see that he wasn’t the only fighter to do so, but, aside from Nelson against Gomez, Jones against Pazienza was the only fight that I came across where I saw this

[@combatsportlover6919]

@@corytclark I saw a Shakur Stevenson fight in person on Terence Crawford's undercard and he went the whole first round without getting hit once. It was against lower level opposition though.

[@UntouchableBreakdowns]

@@combatsportlover6919 still counts if we’re talking about the entirety of compubox, which we are when discussing this so great call

[@musak.4068]

@@combatsportlover6919 At the time Shakur himself was lower level opposition. You don't just enter pros and fight championship bouts. You work your way up like any other sport.

[@JustDoIt4150]

Love the cross guard

[@cerromeceo]

I love his use of the Cross arm guard. The fluidity 🔥

[@brodiethegoaty849]

The fight against Sweet Pea was a sight to behold!

[@ryansawyer2204]

Great fighter! Salvador Sanchez was the only man who stopped him.

[@Joseph._odk]

Azumah took the fight on 2 weeks notice and gassed out and it was his first fight abroad so yeah😄

[@mattsharkey8437]

@@Joseph._odk weak

[@mattsharkey8437]

@@emanuele1334 No shit.

[@mattsharkey8437]

@@emanuele1334 ?

[@mattsharkey8437]

@@emanuele1334 gotcha

[@mmastiff734]

Azumah Nelson vs Pernell Whitaker one of the greatest fights ever in my book

[@marcoslaureano5562]

One of my all time favorite fighters. And he was great even in his old age. His fights against Fenech and Leija even as an old warrior, proved he still had it.

[@H33t3Speaks]

I’m a simple man, I see Hanza. I click. What a montage, never heard of this guy! 🥇💐👹

[@DanielSmith-pq4yc]

Always Came to fight and gave many fighters a long night one of if not Africa's best

[@oliveraherne5547]

Love Ghanaian boxers in general. Commey is great and I really like Dogboe and Buatsi too.

[@DanielSmith-pq4yc]

@@oliveraherne5547 dogoe and Buatsi have spent time in the UK Buatsi even represented England in the amateurs. As a Brit I support them but yeah I agree Ghana breeds tough fighters

[@deconsturm9004]

All time great

[@cerromeceo]

Excellent Defensive movement

[@keanan5360]

Can notice his use of the cross-armed guard to supplement his rolling and weaving, great to study alongside the few other cross-armed users.

[@cerromeceo]

Indeed. Not a lot of people utilize the cross arm guard. Only Moore, Fullmer, Foreman, Norton and Nelson mastered it

[@keanan5360]

@@cerromeceo Though certainly not a common sight, there are quite a few others who used it. Frazier, Briscoe and Qawi used it to supplement their excellent head and upper body movement, Holyfield would use it at times when under heavy fire, and Witherspoon as well.

[@cerromeceo]

@@keanan5360 true. Those were more of a hybrid variation of the technique

[@r.a.8407]

Great utilization of cross guard

[@fdkfskfkvmk441254741]

His fight against Sal Sánchez is my all time favorite, brutal.

[@jonathanflores6814]

who won ?

[@jiovannividro3438]

@@jonathanflores6814 Salvador

[@kwamealhaji499]

Obviously 😂😂

[@ogmaco9059]

THE GRANDMASTER

[@banditpicasso]

haNZAgod always with the fire beats 🔥

[@VersatyleTV1]

Beautiful

[@beefcakebrown]

The Professor!!!

[@shampar10]

Fantastic video, music and all👌🏾

[@kobieglenn2305]

One of my all time favorite fighters.

[@user-tx6zl1yq5s]

I like how he used the cross guards to close distance

[@Rodageado]

Great champion the professor azumah Nelson.

[@brandoasan5639]

He was Salvador Sanchez last opponent

[@haitianmaniac74]

Them old champions were skilled

[@thewisetzar5363]

Him and Dick Tiger are Africa's best all time great fighters

[@stevens392]

I have very similar style to Nelson except narrower also I fight prominently southpaw. This is the first time I've ever seen him he is real fun to watch

[@hashbrowntai3653]

you use the cross arm gaurd?

[@henchlol1247]

Please do videos on Tim Witherspoon and Frank Bruno

[@akikoozeki3114]

Can you do a beautiful boxing video on Fernando Vargas, people forget he is a technical boxer himself creating angles like Roy Jones and Mike Tyson

[@nehemiahlumpkins3936]

haNZAgod what song is this

[@seanbrown2128]

“Im too bad baby”

[@NONcorrupt]

What's that track in the background ???

[@hanzagod]

BEAM BOYS - Terror Flute

[@kingbeeris8814]

Looked like sweet pea until he got in that ring with sweet pea lol that man azumah really was no joke though .

[@reycesarcarino4653]

Zoom Zoom

[@cerromeceo]

I need the instrumental 😇

[@hanzagod]

BEAM BOYS - Terror Flute

[@payton2297]

0:42 Look Like Sweat Pea Getting A Taste Of His Own Medicine

[@Shovelhook]

This is skills not Ali!

[@augpuppy]

They're both skills, you don't have to shit on one to like the other

[@Bigwillyice]

What do you mean by that?

[@hellotcautiver]

What makes you think Ali had no skill lol

[@dennisthemenace855]

Casual .. lower weight class will always be able to display skill easier than the biggers because of their lighter and agile bodies . Ali has one of the greatest boxing minds ever in the ring

[@UntouchableBreakdowns]

Ali was better all time by a wide margin and had a greater boxing ability personally. But like most boxers, Nelson had a few things better then Ali did. For example, he had a very strong guard which Ali did not.