Most defensively capable aggressive\balanced boxer-punchers

Not really. He thought he was a lot slicker than he actually was. His upper-body movements were so consistently exaggerated that it often looked spectacular when he managed to avoid blows, but at the same time it made him look like even more of a buffoon when he was hit. His head would snap back like a whip regardless of how soft the punch was that landed.

 

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Perhaps because of his speed you can say that Azzer.....but I don´t think so.....

 

Jose Napoles
Ray Leonard

 

Well, he fought his entire career including MAB loss with his hands down, and was never knocked out...surely that counts for something :good

 

He took a fairly decent punch and had a neck made of rubber. If he was less unorthodox and off balance with his defense, he wouldn't have gone down many times.

 

It counts for him having a good chin.

 

Come on guys i was running out of ideas, thats why i said Hamed

 

tyson until he got shot of rooney .

 

Ray Robinson
Mike Tyson
Bob Foster
Alexis Arguello
Roberto Duran (you can put him under a different description, but he was so versatile)
Mike Spinks

Most of the great boxer punchers like Ricardo Lopez, weren't overly aggressive, because it's extremely difficult to combine the two. To be very aggressive and still defensively sound. Many of the very aggressive fighters with good defense come under a different style description. Like Chavez.

 

Mike Tyson
Roberto Duran
Roy Jones Jr.

While his offense is what gets most of the ink, by the late 90s and early 2000s DLH was very solid defensively. Against Trinidad, Trinidad had a hell of a time hitting him solidly with anything- what didn't miss him thanks to his lateral movement usually got parried by his gloves. DLH's parrying skills were even better in the second Mosley fight, too- Mosley really looked lost and outclassed for the full first 7 rounds of that fight. While it was a more seldom-used part of his defensive tactics, he unveiled an effective shoulder roll defense against Vargas as well.

DLH is mostly mentioned for having a rock-solid chin, but he also didn't allow it to get tested very often later in his career either.

 

I think James Toney combines the two well.

 

I`m surprised no one has mentioned Julio Cesar Chavez yet, he was very adept defensively even when in offensive mode and was rarely if ever really off balance as well, the Rosario fight is a perfect example among others.

 

For me the guy who combined defense with offense the best was Duran. Just watch the Barkely fight to see where I'm coming from. I've never seen a boxer stand in front of another fighter avoid getting hit and firing back any better than him. It's a different skill set than Ali who wouldn't get hit because of his speed but never really had great offense, and when he was older he simply aborbed much of the punishment. Jones, could do it, but it was more of a reflex type of skill rather an a true boxing skill. (not sure if this makes sense, but he couldn't do it without being much faster than his opponent where as Duran didn't need speed, he just knew where the punches were going to be thrown and wasn't there. It's type of speed but more focused on anticipation)

Tyson? Sure he could do it when he was younger and had the movement but it's more along the lines of Jones were speed was needed for it to work, but wasn't like a 37 year old Duran who truly had something more than speed.

 

* Hagler, at his best, was pretty tough to catch with a clean shot, even when he was coming forward.

Edit: He was already mentioned.

* Ok, how about Azumah Nelson? He was pretty good at picking off punches when coming forward. Same applies to Donald Curry at his best. Mike McCallum wasn't well known for his defensive ability, but I certainly wouldn't classify at as being pourous, even when he was churning forward.

 

That's because you haven't got a clue.