Most technically skilled ATG Heavyweight?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Jim Dean, Mar 17, 2017.


Most technically skilled ATG heavyweight?

  1. Gene Tunney

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  2. Joe Louis

    18 vote(s)
    26.1%

  3. Muhammad Ali

    9 vote(s)
    13.0%

  4. Larry Holmes

    13 vote(s)
    18.8%

  5. Michael Spinks

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  6. Mike Tyson

    5 vote(s)
    7.2%

  7. Evander Holyfeild

    4 vote(s)
    5.8%

  8. Riddick Bowe

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%

  9. Lennox Lewis

    9 vote(s)
    13.0%

  10. Wladimir Klitschko

    10 vote(s)
    14.5%
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  1. Jim Dean

    Jim Dean Member banned Full Member

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    Not who is your favourite heavyweight, or favourite H2H heavyweight, or who is the most charismatic, or biggest puncher etc who do you think is the most technically skilled heavyweight out of as many ATG as I can fit in to this poll?
    Sorry if there was not enough room for your favourite.
     
    Jim Dean, Mar 17, 2017
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  2. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali
     
    BlizzyBlizz, Mar 17, 2017
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  3. Jim Dean

    Jim Dean Member banned Full Member

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    Remember to vote for him then. Lol
     
    Jim Dean, Mar 17, 2017
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  4. DirtyOldTown

    DirtyOldTown Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ali. End thread.
     
    DirtyOldTown, Mar 17, 2017
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  5. Flamazide

    Flamazide Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    The way I see it, there are two schools of thought for this. You're either going with Ali or you're going with Louis. I suppose you could also go with Dempsey, but that was so long ago that I could understand no one picking him.
     
    Flamazide, Mar 17, 2017
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  6. JoffJoff

    JoffJoff Regular Junkie Full Member

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    I think that smaller heavyweights have a higher ceiling for technical skills. You could make a case for Roy Jones Jr or James Toney but I suppose they wouldn't be considered ATG HWs.

    Not voting yet….
     
    JoffJoff, Mar 17, 2017
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  7. JoffJoff

    JoffJoff Regular Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe not Roy actually, his skills were weighted more in the physical rather than technical
     
    JoffJoff, Mar 17, 2017
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  8. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    Joe Louis for me.
     
    Rumsfeld, Mar 17, 2017
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  9. Gymbot

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    Ali and it's not even close
     
    Gymbot, Mar 17, 2017
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  10. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    LH
     
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  11. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Depends what you mean by technically skilled? Ali had amazing abilities but none of what he would do will be in any boxing textbook. The dancing feet, the hands held low, the dependence on his lightning speed and reflexes, the holding and mind games and bursts of quick combinations is not something that you could teach.

    IMO, Evander Holyfield at his best had every punch and move in the book and just about every one of them he could do to a good level. Jab, right cross, left hook, uppercuts, body shots, good footwork and even good defence when he wasn't inclined to be drawn into a slugfest. So would that make him the most technically skilled or just among the best skilled all round boxer/fighters?
     
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  12. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Most technically skilled, I'm going with Larry Holmes.

    Ali, wasn't the most technically skilled. He was the
    most physically gifted. (prime Ali)
     
    northpaw, Mar 17, 2017
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  13. theanatolian

    theanatolian Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    theanatolian, Mar 17, 2017
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  14. Faceplant

    Faceplant Lucky Full Member

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    Technically skilled, and yet you have Wlad and Mike Tyson on the list but no Wilder.
     
    Faceplant, Mar 17, 2017
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  15. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ali
    Holmes
    Lewis
    Louis
     
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