Fighters that are/were good or great but not the best to watch

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Sergio Mora. Very talented defnsively but without much of an offense, and very, very negative at times.
     
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  2. FrankinDallas

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    Yeah that's him. Thanks . Or no thanks for reminding me..now I remember his crap fights.
     
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  3. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Forgot to mention Jack Johnson
     
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  4. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    John Filthy ****ing Ruiz. Although he most certainly was not great.
     
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  5. Longhhorn71

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    The bad thing is Monzon was a true bad-bass who enjoyed beating the chite out of people....no matter how long it took.
     
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    Burley, mayweather, Whittaker, Jack Johnson, Winky Wright (needed the right opponent to make him interesting). There have been tons of spoiler types. Hopkins was interesting that for the first part of his career he was exciting, later he excelled at slowing down a fight to pace manageable for his age.
     
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    Frazier ? Seriously?
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Byrd, Young, Conteh , Jones at 175 and up ..
     
  10. Mr.DagoWop

    Mr.DagoWop Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I always thought prime Wlad was a rather fun fighter to watch.
     
  11. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    People seem to ignore that fact that Hopkins was touted as one of the biggest punchers in the middleweight division at the time of his comeuppance and threw a decent volume of punches in the early stages of his career. He had already turned 40 before his series of bouts with Taylor, so I don't really understand what peoples expectations where going into Bhop fights.
     
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    Marvin hagler
     
  13. mcvey

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    Yeah not ,"Mr Excitement" by any means! I would imagine walking out of the arena afterwards you would probably feel you didn't get value for money in most cases.
     
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    I didn't he operated on the principle of water hitting stone ,drip ,drip,drip,jab,jab,jab, gradually eroding his opponents resistance before daring to take the offensive,and his blatant clinching and leaning on boiled my ****!
     
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    I always thought Conteh was exciting. Chris Eubanks,Snr,Errol Graham,Jim McDonnell,Johnny Nelson, all bored me rigid.
     
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