I am becoming more and more of a fan of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s method. What I like is the effecency of it. He doesn't waist movement. When in the philly shell i would have my boxer keep his lead hand more in front of him as opposed to at his side like Mayweather. With your lead hand you can flick the jab pretty quickly and throw a pretty good hook. With the back hand you can really rotate your hip and legs in to the straight. On defense you can both bob and weave as well as take a step back and to the side. As far as punches goes it is about accuracy not valwum. This being said there is no perfect style that fits everyone.
Fighters have to work to their physical strengths, so it depends if they are short/tall/strong/weak etc, however for basic rolemodels, the most skilled/complete in Duran, Mayweather, Walcott. Yes they are the hardest to immitate, but so were Walcott/Moore and guess who used them - Toney/Hopkins
I'd say Ezzard Charles, because he's not only a candidate for p4p #1 but also he didn't have any exceptional physical talents. SRR was fast and powerful, Hagler had an iron jaw, Ali had his speed/chin, Armstrong had almost superhuman stamina etc. What did Charles have, beyond a really adaptable and effective style and skillset?
If you tried to get 99% prospects to imitate the styles of most of the boxers suggested here, they'd never win a round. A good style is one that means that you DON'T have to depend on having an unusually good chin or lightning reflexes or handspeed or power or whatever. Hamed, Ali, Nunn, SRR, Napoles etc. had gifts of which almost every human on the planet can only dream.
Also Johnny Nelson. But it's a style that makes for short careers, even if you're lucky enough to have the reflexes and speed to pull it off.
IMO they lacked his all round slippiness. Graham was harder to hit (don't post the Jackson clip :good) Witter made up for it by being even more cagey Naz made up for it with his freakish power.
I'd agree, although in his early career Hamed was more slippy, he got lazy though. Remember they are local lads that have been built from the ground up, not the best in the country that have been picked/selected and polished up. The main problem imo is they don't spar properly at wincobank. But show me another gym that trains locals from the ground up and has had 3 world champs and Bomber Graham, don't know how the best of the lot is the only 1 who didn't get a title Naz should have taken Graham's offer up of training him
Witter and Nelson were well into their late 30s competiting well enough. The style does have its weaknesses but the head movement and footwork can be mighty impressive. Far better than many supposedly more technical solid fighters talked about here.