5 greatest brawlers of all time

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  1. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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  2. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    And you don't know what the brawler is either. Duran is not a brawler at all but he's a boxer-fighter. Duran can do both fight and box. The real brawler IMO is Julio C Chavez Sr.
     
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  3. Zopilote

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    Chavez was a very techincally sound pressure fighter, who could also box too.

    Guys like Gatti, Ward, Hatton, Katsidis, ect, ect... are brwlers.
     
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  4. Thread Stealer

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    How exactly would one describe a "brawler"??

    Highly skilled guys like Duran, Hagler, and Chavez, for example, could brawl and box.
     
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  5. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sombody knew well the definition/description of a brawler but when it comes to pick fighters who they think are brawlers, they also picked the wrong guys.:lol:
     
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  6. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    what is your defenition of a brawler and does any particular boxer throughout history and time reflect this best?
     
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  7. KellBrook p4p#1

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  8. Lunny

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    Bring a brawler doesn't necessarily mean the fighter didn't have any skills either. It's just a style of boxing. Being a brawler and being very skilled aren't mutually exclusive.
     
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  9. the cobra

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    There's a difference between being a swarmer or a pressure fighter and being a brawler though. A brawler is someone who takes one to land one, wants to get into slugfests and would usually come out on top in such situations due almost exclusively to superior durability, strength, and power. Guys like Duran and Chavez could brawl when they felt like it, but they were much too refined technically to ever do it for any serious amount of time in any fight. They were as much brawlers as Hopkins was in the 90's, which is to say they weren't brawlers at all. Dick Tiger is one of the genuinely great fighters I might call a brawler, skilled as he was.
     
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  10. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well! For me, a brawler is the fighter who doesn't know how to step back. He just wants to move forward and trade puches with his opponents all the time until he knock them out or until they knock him out. However, I admit that I put some wrong guys into my list above.
    Ricky Hatton is the best example of what we call "brawler."
     
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  11. cangryman

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    Mike tyson
     
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  12. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, Mike Tyson is another one who can be called "brawler." I agree.:good
     
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  13. RafaelGonzal

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    Rocky Marciano was a brawler
    Rocky Graziano was brawler
    Joe Frazier was a Brawler
    Gene Fullmer- Brawler
    early George Foreman Brawler
     
    RafaelGonzal, Oct 14, 2011
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  14. RafaelGonzal

    RafaelGonzal Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ricky is what is called a hugger.
     
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  15. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well! a kind of. He's a brawler who like to hold and hug his opponents like a wrestler.
     
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