Saw this vid on the 5 types of feinting used by boxers, Floyd and Kovalev feature, which fighters were as good as these two at using or if not better? Loma features too, he`s the feint master. This content is protected
Watch Duran vs Hagler Mark. I recently re scored it. This was a battle of the feints. Sugar Ray Leonard vs Wilfred Benitez too. Willie Pep Jung Koo Chang. He had some crazy feints, and they worked every time. Jimmy Wilde looked quite the feinter on film.
Duran for sure. Michael Spinks use to feint with jab and throw that right hand a lot. Jeresy Joe Walcott used a lot of feints as well.
Tough to say with limited footage and huge gaps in my personal knowledge, but for me, Joe Gans, Willie Pep, Joe Louis, Benny Leonard and Roberto Duran. Roy Jones deserves honorable mention but his success here seems to me more due to sheer reflexes than cleverness.
Hopkins is up there. I tend to find his brand of more subtle foot/head/shoulder feints far more clever than the more obvious "half punch" feints that get all the attention.
Tyson could knock guy down with a feint. He once feinted to land a punch and Bruce Seldon fell to canvas like he was shot by a cannon.
I was thinking Ward in the same regard, but him and Hopkins both excelled at doing that sort of thing.
Duran would often feint in combination. He would tie a guy in knots reacting to his feints and then bomb away while the opponent was completely out of position from reacting to his feints.
