Most unique boxers ever?

Bruno, in my opinion is highly underrated. Big guy who was athletic and technical. His biggest flaw was that he fought Mike. He definitely would be a huge issue with any fighter in the division who've competed in the last couple decades.

 

Eugene Hart fought in a very unusual, hyper-aggressive manner.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned Gypsy Joe here, who would absolutely be a shoo in.

 

Gypsy Joe for sure. Great shout.



might be late to it all. But…fullmer sort of needs a revaluation. The Dracula left-arm-elbow-to-mouth while his right stayed cocked in a gunslinger pose. his only real punch a right hook.

 

Athletic? You gotta be kidding me. He moved like a robot fighting underwater. Yeah he had power an was real strong plus he did basic jab followed by right hand well but he moved exactly how a muscle bound mr Olympia bodybuilder would move if you put them in the ring

 

The Drunken Master! +1!!!!

 

Shout out to Vitali Klitschko. Not sure I've ever seen a HW fight with his hands down as much as him, in a way that almost looked lackadaisical and disinterested, but actually was a launchpad for him to throw shots from all kinds of weird angles and at high volume. His defence largely relied on just leaning back, when fighting smaller guys he'd sometimes hunch down to their level before straightening back up, and his stance was ridiculously wide-legged. Kinda made up his own style that was a bit ungainly but I always found interesting to watch.

 

You should have simply just stop typing after 'you gotta be kidding me'......

The obvious response to that is.....NO ONE WAS TALKING TO YOU. As I would be only talking to someone who knew more about Frank Bruno than his later years of boxing. You know, someone who isn't ignorant of him as an athlete, but yet feels the need to critique him as if they know more about him than what they see in some YouTube highlights.

If you'd of done just a little research before banging on your keyboard ignorantly.....you'd of known that also excelled as a soccer, track, and wrestler in his youth but boxing was the sport he chose to pursue as a pro being that it came easiest to him thus his first 20 or so fights ended with him stopping his opponents. Bruno was every bit of an athlete. Not some stiff robot you claim he was. As he got older he was less agile but that happens to everyone. As I said.....Frank was an athlete.

 

I was thinking of Paez myself.

 

Willie Pep was a unique one. Blend of evasive dodger, but also a swarmer in bursts. Seeing him throw sextuple jabs and quintuple hooks is pretty unreal.

 

I think Bivol is one of the most unique fighters I've ever seen.

He's mastered the fundamentals and his implementation of the pendulum step is the best I've ever seen.

There is currently no one in boxing that fights like him.

 

Nobody in boxing fights like each other everyone is unique to some degree

 

His style was kinda strange but very effective.

 

Bivol is the archetype for the Soviet boxing style. Which means that practically every Soviet amateur and a handful of Soviet pros fight or fought in the same style as Bivol. Albert Batyrgaziev, Yuri Arbachakov, Andrey Zamkovoy, Adilbek Niyazymbetov, Saken Bibossinov, Alexei Tichtenchenko, Georgi Balakshin, Sergey Kovalev, Valeri Popenchenko, and plenty more all fight in a similar fashion. Most EE amateurs of the last half century or so fight in ostensibly the same style as Bivol does.

 

Funso banjo . Similar to Eubank Sr in stile. Not in achievement.