Boring boxers

I would only class a few of them as 'boring'

 

Pernell Whitaker and James Toney? I haven't seen their whole back catalogs, but in the fights I have seen both were VERY entertaining. Especially Toney.

 

You really can't compare what Wlad did last night with most of the fighters you have named. Fighter who have fought like Wlad like Ruiz and Ottke have been rightly vilified by their critics.

Hopkins threw more than double the amount of power punches against Pascal at the age of 46 than Wlad in his prime did against Haye. He landed 100 more power punches than Wlad did despite throwing less than Wlad!

Lewis could be overly tactical like in his performance against Tua but he could also go to war in performances against Mercer, Grant, Vitali, Briggs, Ruddock and Golota.

Whitaker and Toney often took chances and stood right in front of their opponents and countered any mistakes, Wlad refused to pull the trigger all to often against Haye.

 

Personally I like technical fighters. I have always appreciated boxers like Hopkins, Whitaker and Wright, nothing wrong with being able to slip punches and control an opponent with movement. But all these guys also knew how to counter with power punches.

I am glad I have not seen too many Wlad fights if that wasn't his worst performance, I can't imagine a much more passive performance than that.

 

The ones highlighted I understand people calling them boring but the rest naw. Ezzard was pretty watchable. He was fluid and his fights during his small reign ended with nice ko's such as against Valentino & Satterfield plus his fights with Marciano were exciting.

Whitaker, a few times but he was a joy to watch and his fights with Roger and Chavez were far from boring.

Wright, a few occassions but most of his fights were not boring he was actually exciting most of the times as it's a myth he was boring.

Hopkins has only really been boring against RJJ(first fight was scrappy and he was inexperienced and green while the second fight was two old guys looking their age), Calzaghe(Calzaghe's wildness didn't work against him and he was so nullified plus with Hopkins' very low workrate he fight was a little interesting but mainly boring), and most of the fights with John David & Hakkar.

Larry Holmes could be boring but like B-hop, it depends on his opponent. He was mainly exciting as Wlad was and I feel many people forget that.

Lewis & Mayweather just dominate people making one-sided fights but the only "meh" fights I've seen from him is against Baldomir, Marquez, & Castillo rematch. Floyd's problem is that for several years he hasn't fought guys that have a chance to beat him making the results of his fights VERY predictacle hence a boring pattern(To a degree, Wlad's endings are predicatable too but he fights everyone unlike Floyd).


Wladimir dominates fights and only goes for the ko if Manny is yelling for it to happen. He does everything right except backing up in straight lines but the guy is a legend and a master of the sport. He believes in not trying too hard to get the ko as he doesn't want to give his opponents more chances to open up(like Floyd has been in recent years). His style post-Brewster hasn't been the best to watch or exciting but he goes in their and dominates getting the ko most of the times, you really can't hate on that. Even post Brewster there's still worthy fights to watch from him(Brewster 2 though that was sad, Wlad opened up more), Byrd 2(Same as Brewster 2), and Peter 2(Not sad like the others but this time Wlad got the ko and was more composed). As far as his adapting, he fought more calm in the rematch with Peter and didn't back up everytime he felt pressue or clinch awkwardly. Wlad may do the patter jab, paw, jab, jab, paw, jab, grab, jab, jab, straight,etc. in most of his fights now but it's effective and hasn't failed him. I'm upset he didn't open up more even a little(for ex: when Haye had his hands VERY low in the beginning) and go for the ko but he did control the fight completely and as a boxer that's what you want to do.

 

The Klits are merely oversized Super HW bums!!!

Boxing really needs the Super HW division, separate from the HW division, where we can force these two bums into along with the other Russian Bum, Valeuv.

 

I have nothing against Kitscho, but I would love to see more aggresiveness and dominance for someone who towers over and outweighs most of his opponents.

 

Opinion on some of those is very divided. A lot of people find Whitaker, Winky, Mayweather's style entertaining with the movement, making fighters look silly, etc.

Virtually everyone finds the Klitschkos boring.