Favorite boxing styles....

[yancey]

Do you tend to admire one style of boxing over all others?

For me, I tend to admire the bring it to you, primal, swarmer type.

What is your favorite style and the best examples of it?

[scallum]

Do you tend to admire one style of boxing over all others?

For me, I tend to admire the bring it to you, primal, swarmer type.

What is your favorite style and the best examples of it?

I tend to really adore the scientific boxers like Tunney and Ali. I'm in total awe of the defensive wizards like Pep,Benitez and Pernell W

[Goodnight, Irene]

"Hit and not be hit."

And the more exotic the execution, the better. Whitaker and Benitez are my two favourite examples. Locche and Pep are spectacular, too. Locche especially doesnt get enough cred.

[thunderfromdownunder]

Always been a fan of the Mexican type Boxer-Punchers, guys like Barrera and Morales who could do a bit of both

[BoxBuzz]

"Hit and not be hit."

And the more exotic the execution, the better. Whitaker and Benitez are my two favourite examples. Locche and Pep are spectacular, too. Locche especially doesnt get enough cred.

This tells me I need to reconsider my preferences, as I find myself in complete agreement. However in order to get my jollies, the BEST swarmers, brawlers, and Heavy thunder punchers MUST appear within the drama or all that "finesse" is wasted and can lead to boring fights, especially if they end up in the same ring together.

Whitaker just might be my all time favorite, and that fight with Chavez could be the happiest moment of my witnessing boxing matches.......if only that damned to hell act of injustice was not doled out.

Does ANYONE think Chavez won, or even pulled off a draw? And yet for eternity that will be what the record shows.

I can only hope that in my lifetime a great artist once again gets a chance to demonstrate such state of the art bullfighting ability and actually get CREDIT for the feat. Most judges are simply not sophisticated enough to appreciate ART within the sweet science.

By the way this is simply about ring performance, I don't condone his self destructive behaviors.

[Goodnight, Irene]

"Hit and not be hit."

And the more exotic the execution, the better. Whitaker and Benitez are my two favourite examples. Locche and Pep are spectacular, too. Locche especially doesnt get enough cred.

This tells me I need to reconsider my preferences, as I find myself in complete agreement. However in order to get my jollies, the BEST swarmers, brawlers, and Heavy thunder punchers MUST appear within the drama or all that "finesse" is wasted and can lead to boring fights, especially if they end up in the same ring together.

Whitaker just might be my all time favorite, and that fight with Chavez could be the happiest moment of my witnessing boxing matches.......if only that damned to hell act of injustice was not doled out.

Does ANYONE think Chavez won, or even pulled off a draw? And yet for eternity that will be what the record shows.

I can only hope that in my lifetime a great artist once again gets a chance to demonstrate such state of the art bullfighting ability and actually get CREDIT for the feat. Most judges are simply not sophisticated enough to appreciate ART within the sweet science.

By the way this is simply about ring performance, I don't condone his self destructive behaviors.

Not true.

They just appreciate money under the table more, as sleight-of-hand acts go.

[BoxBuzz]

I'll not hear another unkind word about the salt of the earth officials that give their very heart and soul in preserving the high ethical expectations demanded by the sweet science.

How else can we be assured that Frazier was not about to send an entire crowd home early in his second encounter with Ali? I'm quite sure it was only happenstance that gave Joe a well deserved rest before continuing on for the duration of the evening.

(Somebody give me a running start before yance reads my comment....lol)

[Goodnight, Irene]

Then its agreed! They are competent, yet corrupt...or incopetent, yet honest...wait, which were they again?

[yancey]

Then its agreed! They are competent, yet corrupt...or incopetent, yet honest...wait, which were they again?

I'll take incompetent and corrupt.

[yancey]

I'll not hear another unkind word about the salt of the earth officials that give their very heart and soul in preserving the high ethical expectations demanded by the sweet science.

How else can we be assured that Frazier was not about to send an entire crowd home early in his second encounter with Ali? I'm quite sure it was only happenstance that gave Joe a well deserved rest before continuing on for the duration of the evening.

(Somebody give me a running start before yance reads my comment....lol)

Yep, Joe was fixin' to go, right?

And here I was thinking you were a poster of uncommon good sense.

[BoxBuzz]

c'mon, you gotta spot me one selfish imagining/ self serving judgment within boxing history......OK, two when I'm forced to discuss Moore vs Charles.

[yancey]

c'mon, you gotta spot me one selfish imagining/ self serving judgment within boxing history......OK, two when I'm forced to discuss Moore vs Charles.

Okay, you're spotted.

[BoxBuzz]

You gotta admit though, that moment was about the most either of them were "staggered" in their entire 3 fight exchange. I've always thought that Ali was perhaps more affected by the so called "slip" than the knockdown in round 15 of the first fight. His rebound in round 15 has to be one of the greatest displays of resiliency in the history of the sport. 15 rounds of give and take, here comes the big money shot, and BANG he's back on his feet. Even a Joe Frazier die hard (and I'm one) has to be flat out flabbergasted by that miraculous recovery. It's as close to Moore's miracle in Canada as any other moment in boxing.


Otherwise neither of them showed much in the way of wilting within the entire saga.

[yancey]

You gotta admit though, that moment was about the most either of them were "staggered" in their entire 3 fight exchange. I've always thought that Ali was perhaps more affected by the so called "slip" than the knockdown in round 15 of the first fight. His rebound in round 15 has to be one of the greatest displays of resiliency in the history of the sport. 15 rounds of give and take, here comes the big money shot, and BANG he's back on his feet. Even a Joe Frazier die hard (and I'm one) has to be flat out flabbergasted by that miraculous recovery. It's as close to Moore's miracle in Canada as any other moment in boxing.


Otherwise neither of them showed much in the way of wilting within the entire saga.

About that 15th round in the FOTC, not too long after the knockdown, almost at the exact mid-point of the round Ali had his back to the ropes and Joe hit him with another left hand shot. Ali was out on his feet for a second and Joe, for whatever reason, just didn't follow up! Dunphy even commented at the time that Frazier should have followed up. If, and I agree it is an IF, Ali had gone down again right there at the mid-point, then the three knockdown rule would have been in play. Maybe Frazier was simply too exhausted to follow up, but I noticed he did that in other fights. He also seemed to wait for Ali to fall after he belted him another good left in the 11th instead of quickly following up.

I will easily agree that Ali had some of the awesome recuperative powers ever seen.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Ali was one tough SOB. The recovery from that knockdown was indeed an astonishing act.

[AngryGoon38]

Tricky question earning a tricky and maybe controversial answer from me.

When i think of favorite styles i just have to tie it in with favorite boxers to watch,"doing they're thing".

Mike Tyson,Sonny Liston,George Foreman,Joe Louis,Rocky Marciano,Tommy Morrison,Tommy Hearns,Pipino Cuevas,Danny Lopez,Arguello,Shavers, as far as Pure Sluggers or therabouts of that category.

Tough guys that can also punch like Hagler,Chuvalo,Frazier,Jorge Castro,Mercer,and Quarry, spring to mind in that categorization.

As far as boxer types,pummelers,punishers,schoolers,clowners,performers,master strategists,accumulation type fighters,the list is quite vast.

Ali,S.R Leonard,S.R Robinson,Larry Holmes,Jack Johnson,Willie Pep,Carlos Monzon,Henry Armstrong,Roberto Duran,Salvador Sanchez,Locche,Benitez,P.Whittaker,Hamed,McGuigan,Gregorio Peralta,Archie Moore,Bernard Hopkins.

[Ezzard]

Mostly I like boxers with a good dig and a suspect chin. Makes it very exciting.

[raylawpc]

Swarmers like Frazier and Duran . . . maybe because, when I personally boxed, I had a completely different style. I think I admire the swarmers because I could never do it.

[boxbible]

Aggressive counter punchers who employed slip, slide and roll...

Dwight Muhammad Qawi
James Toney
Ezzard Charles
Jersey Joe Walcott
Aaron Pryor
Joan Guzman
George Benton

[King Carlos]

Smooth, well-rounded technicians are probably my favourite to watch, but there are all kinds of exceptions. Guys like Jose Napoles, Pernell Whitaker, John Conteh, Wilfredo Gomez (in his younger days), Orlando Canizales, Chucho Castillo, Donald Curry, George Benton, etc. are some of my favourites to watch of that ilk.

[The 1bangkid]

prime mike tyson

[flatnoseflynn]

Naseem Hamed, when he boxed Vincenzo Belcastro and then Steve Robinson for the world title, beautiful to watch and herol graham both tremendous styles when done correctly.

[Crease]

"Hit and not be hit."

And the more exotic the execution, the better. Whitaker and Benitez are my two favourite examples.

Yep both of them make boxing look like an art form, beautiful to watch.

But personally I always loved swarmers, my personal favourite of all time is Rocky Marciano. And I really enjoyed watching Ricky Hatton when he was active and at the top of his game.

[NazNaci1]

I suppose, for me, fighters who fight exclusive 'in the pocket' and can slip, parry, roll and hit back with enough venom to make the other guy think ie Chavez, Duran, Toney etc. Though a good old fashion box-puncher in the classical sense, like a SRL or SRR, who can do what is necessary and has the ability to turn it on, when its most needed, is another favourite. I used to like Kevin Kelley due to the fact he'd do what was needed and had that confidence in his skill and punch. Confidence plays a big role.