Who was the most entertaining fighter in the last 8-10 years in boxing?

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  1. Contro

    Contro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    James Kirkland is another one
     
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  2. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Froch
    Pavlik
    Martinez
     
  3. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    I don't like to include boxers that failed multiple drugtests.
     
  4. PaddyGarcia

    PaddyGarcia Trivial Annoyance Gold Medalist Full Member

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    The true KING Soto Karas
     
  5. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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  6. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Or deliberately miss weight.
     
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  7. Gennady

    Gennady Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Btw the correct answer is Pacquiao and Golovkin, maybe Joshua.


    Cotto, Martinez, Danny Garcia, etc.??? Hahaha, GTFOH
     
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  8. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    No. The correct answer is Orlando Salido by miles.
     
  9. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    I find provodnikov incredibly entertaning, and I love technique and excelence and all that... but... I find provodnikov incredibly entertaining as I said, I cant help it.

    Canelo is a warranty for entertainment too. Since he has no feet, and he's so good fighting in the pocket, his fights are usually very entertaining too.
     
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  10. jquest

    jquest Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm not the biggest fan of Froch but he deserves to be mentioned more in this category. Outside the stinker of the Dirrell fight, can't think of a more consistently entertaining set of fights at world level over the last 10 years.

    Khan, Salido, Lebedev, Groves, GGG, Thurman, Donaire.
     
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  11. elmaldito

    elmaldito Skillz Full Member

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    I like boxing you like fighting. I can do both. It’s a lot harder and requires serious skill that you can’t learn overnight to hit and not get hit.
    I know several people that can come straight forward and slug it out and take a baseball bat to the head. You are born with that. Nobody is just born able to hit and not get hit and use proper tech. It is an art that not many people can do.
     
  12. Power_tek

    Power_tek Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wow more than one person said ward, if his fights were entertaining the opposition brought it with them and took it home with them too.
     
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  13. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    Loma
    GGG
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  14. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    I think Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao are the cream of the crop when it comes to fistic entertainment value in the last 10 years.
    Both highly skilled and each climbed the ring to show off their fistic punching skills not only against eachother but against others.

    For those that would want to slight Marquez, he was in numerous fight of the year type fights in those 10 years, against Pacquiao, Joel Casamayor, Juan Diaz, and Michael Katsidis.
    For fighters as skilled as Marquez and Pacquiao, its not very often that fighters of that caliber are willing to fully display their skills and take risks inside the ring so that the viewing public can be entertained.
    I'm not sure if there's anyone else that even a close 2nd to those two to tell you the truth.
     
  15. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yes skills are something that you arent born with you have to study them and practice.

    I sparred one guy who ended up turning pro. And I hesitate to call him a man because he was more like a piece of iron. He would just walk through everything against all the guys in our gym near his size like it was nothing. And then it was like he never ran out of gas. It was like he refueled constantly.
     
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