Been musing on fights/fighters have watched over the 30/40 years or so, and certain fighters that I like over other fighters, that being the way they chose to employ their skills. So friends and fam have asked over all those years " whos your fav " and yes I have ( like you ) favorite fighters of course, but I realized there is a certain style of fighting that I enjoy watching, more than most, and I will reveal that I don't like punchers, so your Tysons, Benns, Shavers, Hearns, etc, granted all the above can also box when needed, but their DNA is a massive KO punch, don't like em. The other category would be Boxers per se, so your Buchanans, Winstones, Pastranos, etc, agreed they could punch a little bit at times, but essentially boxers, don't like em . So we get there, the style I like the most is the fighters that stay close, in the pocket so to speak, keep up close and pick their shots, while avoiding the incoming punch's from the opponent, fighters like , Don Curry , example being against Jones, stood in front of a dangerous hitter like Jones, and weathered or rode the incoming shots , then placed short educated punch's of his own , to good effect. Another fighter who employed these tactics some what would be Palomino, again stood up close to both Stracey, Muniz, and to a degree Benitez ( albeit a loss ) and done similar, you might know others, that employ this " style " keep your KO artists, keep your " Boxers " give me the fighter that stays in the pocket.
How do you feel about Qawi? I think he fits the style you describe, even though he's more aggressive than most other fighters in that category.
Yes, perfect example of the genre, don't you think that's better than a 1 punch KO, or a long drawn out boxing match .
Fighters who I think (mostly) fit this description: Julio Cesar Chavez (Top Mexicans in general would please you) Eder Jofre Alberto Davila (Textbook of what you want. Watch him first.) Kuniaki Shibata Vicente Saldivar Jose Medel Chucho Castillo Gerry Penalosa Rodrigo Valdez George Benton Juan Manuel Marquez Myung Woo Yuh Antonio Gomez Jose Napoles Packey McFarland Kid Gavilan Jung Koo Chang Bobby Jones (at-least from what I remember in the Gil Turner battle) Henry Hank Barney Ross Tony Canzoneri Henry Armstrong Evander Holyfield (When disciplined. The 'defense' part wasn't always engaged) Jake LaMotta Midget Wolgast (when he fought inside) Betulio Gonzalez Dwight Qawi Shoji Oguma Santos Laciar Chan Hee Park Veeraphol Sahaphrom Pongsaklek Wonjongkam Freddie Steele Bennie Briscoe Carmen Basilio Archie Moore Mike McCallum Dick Tiger Victor Galindez Lupe Pintor That should be a good few to dig your teeth into.
I agree. Also much better than sloppy slug-fests where fighters trade punches with reckless abandon, in my humble opinion.
Interesting one. It takes a lot of guts and trust in your own ability to fight like that. Archie Moore would probably be the best I can think of, not in our era of course Mike but guys like Curry, Palomino and Barry McGuigan are examples of guys who, once that confidence was gone, were never the same. Archie could lose a fight and just come back and do the same thing.
Slugger/Boxers are my flavor. Examples being Alexis Arguello, Roberto Duran, Joe Louis and the greatest of all Felix Trinidad. They come to fight everytime. There's some science there as well as a high boxing IQ.
