Joseph Benavidez Quotes

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

I love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.

Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.

I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.

Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.

I do best when guys come at me. Stylistically, the Ricky Hatton fight is the best fight for me.

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

Charles Hatley is a good fighter. He comes with pressure and he likes fighting. He's got a good style and he can bob and weave and be slick.

I don't want to be chasing a big, awkward southpaw around the ring. I want a fight that people will enjoy.

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.