Fighter hardest to outbox?

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  1. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What fighters would you say were the hardest to beat in a pure boxing match?
     
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    Hearns.
     
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    Whitaker. Pep. Harold Johnson.
     
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    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Sugar Nikolai Valuev
     
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    Totally agree; and yet we have one the strangest paradoxes in that Barkley outpointed him...
     
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    Aye. :lol::lol:

    Hearns was a master of the craft, though. Phenomenal.
     
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    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Curry in his prime....
     
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    nikrj Active Member Full Member

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    Charley Burley
    Jersey Joe Walcott
    Willie Pep
    Ali
    Sugar Ray Robinson
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Tommy Loughrin deserves a shout
     
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    Benitez
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    Willie Pep and Ezzard Charles
     
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    Greg Page.
     
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    The first and only time Hearns lost a decision. But for the knockdown it would have been a draw.
     
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