If you could box like any fighter, from any era, who would you choose?

Mike Gibbons or Billy Petrolle.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson

 

Me too! I don’t like to get hit very often, and this is my best chance

 

Jack Dempsey


I've always thought of myself as Dempsey/Marciano-like, but really my technique is (at best), a discount Baer/Morrison

Either way, Dempsey's explosive, fun, brutal style at heavyweight would get boxing back on the map to greatness

 

Chaney from the 1933 era of New Orleans street fighting. One of the three great hobos along with Dempsey and Ketchel to throw down. Single greatest movie ever made . KUDOS ROUGHDIAMOND

 

Getting hit is half of the fun though

 

Lol...I am almost 50...I will take your word for it

 

Monzon. Ring generalship, great jab, great stamina, good power and a granite chin. These are the tools of a great fighter.

 

For me it would either be Harold Johnson, Ricardo Lopez or JMM. Nice textbook style, using basic boxing technique to the highest level.

 

Lol - I don't even know what a discount Baer would look like!

 

It looks like disappointing a coach

 

Sugar Ray Robinson is an obvious choice, power in both hands, able to box and punch, devastating combinations, great footwork and timing on both offense and defense, it's almost cheating to use him as my example. Duran's another one in this light, does so much so well, and his inside control and aggression would be marvelous to unleash.

Past those two, though, I think Jersey Joe would be my choice. Super slick footwork and head movement, coupled with two handed power and undeniable style would give anyone trouble.

 

Floyd Patterson - still think he threw some of the best combos of any heavyweight in history, always superbly balanced when he threw his shots; he was almost poetic.