What boxer has gotten the furthest on power/athletecism alone?

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  1. dayuum

    dayuum Active Member Full Member

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    Meaning he has little to no technique but great stamina/power/speed etc. Earnie Shavers?
     
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    Recently, Porter.
     
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    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    Roy Jones
     
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    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Really want to say Froch - limited but excelled so far - but he doesnt fit the criteria ><
     
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    michael carvajal. first of the little guys to break the million dollar pay day ceiling when all he could do was swing a hammer.
     
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    Manny?
     
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    Got by just on athleticism? :blood

    That would to me seem a sarcastic reply...but I could understand (and have actually encountered) someone thinking he was just a crude guy with power, wrong as that is.

    I think maybe the OP shouldn't have lumped both together as it becomes two separate questions and two separate lists that are just needlessly confusingly intertwined here.
     
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    dan4579 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Prince Naseem Hamed?
     
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    The Professor Socialist Ring Leader Staff Member

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    That was the first name that came to my mind.
     
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    Edison Miranda and Randall Bailey on right hand power, never expanded their ****nals to beat better fighters

    Athleticism and power maybe a Seth Mitchell got as far as he could but just wasn't truly a fighter deep down
     
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    To be honest, I wasn't being sarcastic but on a second thought, I shouldn't have mentioned him, I was comparing him to modern boxers.
     
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