Benitez, Camacho, Whitaker, Pep... All marvelous, albeit limited, boxers. I know a lot of people rate such fighters as Whitaker and Pep very high on their all time p4p list, and while I agree they were amazingly skilled, to my mind they were incomplete. Of course, they could go 12 rounds and hardly take a shot while hitting their opponents at will. Unfortunately, their opponents often looked like they'd just come out of a beauty parlor after the fight (OK, I exaggerate a little). But to my mind the mark of a great fighter is one that is actually able to stop his opponent - either forces him to quit or renders him unconscious. Otherwise, it's just a game of tag - I hit you more times over 12 rounds than you hit me. This is why I'll always rate guys like Duran, Chavez, Pac over these pure boxers - the former guys didn't just beat their opponents in a game of tag, they took their hearts away: either by forcing them to quit or by rendering them unconscious. And this takes every bit as much skill to do on a consisent basis as it does to box your way to a unanimous decision.
ABNER MARES... Sal Sanchez... Marquez Juan Diaz Mijares(when he wasnt so overrated) Malinaggi Whitaker Paul Williams
A lot of the fighters you guys are mentioning are too unorthodox to be considered 'pure boxers'. The best example without a doubt of a pure boxer is Ricardo Lopez. Juan Manuel Marquez is a good example of the current fighters.
Calzaghe throws way too many punches to be considered a pure boxer. If you were going to class him he would be a weird boxer/swarmer hybrid. By no means a pure boxer. He relies on his high punch output and pressure created from that (even though he was a very light puncher late in his career). Indeed. Being featherfisted doesn't mean anything in relation to being a pure boxer.
SelfKill, I wouldn't put Nunn in that category. Also, Whittaker had some BRUTAL stoppages. His pop reduced as he went up no doubt. Calderon would be the best modern example.
This is Boxing. We see all sorts of things. Namely Wilfred Benitez sparking out Hope with one shot. He was still a pure boxer. I can agree with Nunn, though.
You could hit like a truck and still be a pure boxer, it just doesn't happen often cause the guys with natural power generally fall in love with it and don't need to rely on (or develop) their technical ability as much. Whitaker is definitely a pure boxer, as technically proficient as they come.
The 'pure boxers' are naturally predisposed, intuitive, economically precise in their movements, seamless in transition, improvisational, technical, and consistently two or more moves ahead of the opponent. Custom move-rs.
pure boxer = Zahir Raheem after knocking down Morales with a flush punch . . . he retreated to the other side of the ring then continue to box without any intention of folowing up on the hurt opponent. :deal