Best ability-wise.

Greg Page.

 

Michael Nunn - hands down, loads up on punches, chin high, defense is all upper body reflexes, switches stances doing the ali shuffle and throws combos.

Cant teach that.

 

I see 'ability' as different to 'H2H ability'.
In terms of ability, SRR will be no.1. In terms of H2H ability, he's not in my top 10, nor is any old timer before 60's for that matter.

 

Nonito Donaire, Roy Jones, George Foreman and Ricardo Lopez

 

Foreman?:shock:

 

I'm not the bigger Mayweather fan, but I actually think he is one of the best ability-wise, maybe if he followed up with combinations more he could be the one.

Roy Jones Jr.
SRR.
SRL.
Mike Tyson.

I haven't seen much of Roman Gonzalez, but from what I've seen, he seems like an extremely rare talent, definitely deserves consideration, as so does Rigondeaux.

 

Foreman was able to blow Frazier and Norton away in a couple of rounds and be a world champ at 45.. thats pretty able..

 

Yeah, a bit cliched but I have to agree. He had no weaknesses at all, which is an exceptional thing.
Just an amazing, amazing fighter.

 

No not Yuri Foreman but George Foreman the Olympic Gold Medalist, 2x HW champ

 

Yeah, Roy sure looked stupid destroying Griffin in one round.

I think the fact that a DQ loss when on the verge of winning by KO is the one blot on prime Jones's record, a blot he avenged thoroughly, says it all really.

I don't much care for Roy's style, but you can't really say much else than that he was supremely effective in his prime.

 

He was brutally beaten in his prime. I wouldn't want that. (and you can spare me all the BS about him being hopelessly past it at 24, because I heard it a thousand times before and don't buy it)

But, yeah, he was extremely gifted.

 

Plus any quality defence except power and reach you mean?

Love to watch Tommy, but if you think his only flaw was a weak chin you know little about boxing.

 

Tyson wasn't training much in '88, let alone '89-'91. He achieved everything by 1987, hundreds of millions and all his father figures dead, other half screwing his head and bank and nobody to turn to, other than Don King; the devil himself... Tyson of 1987 was 10x the fighter he was that fought Bruno in '89 (and Spinks/Williams although they were over before we really saw the flaws surfacing), and 20x the fighter that was 280+lbs a couple of weeks before the Buster fight.

I wouldn't say he was massively gifted, he was more of an ultra-trained technical machine than that loose, flowing, gifted, freestyle type (Ali, Nunn, McCallum, etc).

 

His timing, jabs, feints, combinations and ring generalship were his defense as well as his offense; he always got off first! Fast from range, and thoroughly out-feinted and out-boxed peak Ray Leonard for 12 rounds.

 

Only really worked on smaller men, though. North of 154 he wasn't hard to hit clean.

If he hadn't had his power and reach and height advantage he probably wouldn't have lasted 7 rds with Leonard. If that.

Let's not in any sense or form make out like he was a Kalambay skill wise. He was far from it.