Another boxing game

Wow, interesting topic. Offhand, I would say

Ali - Howard Davis
Frazier - Curtis Parker
Lewis - Carlos Monzon
Holmes - Ike Quartey

The rest I'm going to have to think on

 

Joe Louis--Koysta Tzysu. Both fought in a manner to set up the straight right hand and had exceptional timing. Alexis Arguello also fought in a similar manner.

 

Johnson = Floyd Mayweather
Louis = GGG
Marciano = Arthur Beterviev
Liston = Carlos Zarate
Ali = Willie Pep
Frazier = Henry Armstrong
Foreman = Stanley Ketchel
Holmes = Packey McFarland
Mike Tyson = Terry McGovern
Lennox Lewis = Thomas Hearns

 

Nice list - I particularly like Frazier = Armstrong.

I also like @AwardedSteak863 analogising Tszyu/Arguello to Louis.

 

Yeah, Tsyzu and Arguello are at worst equally good comparisons as GGG.

Louis punch delivery was better than all 3, they had the "snap" of Tsyzu (I.e. quicker, p4p, than GGG and Arguello), allied with perfect balance and technique, required to punch in fluid combinations, of GGG and Arguello (better in this regard than Tsyzu, imo).

 

Jack Johnson - Bernard Hopkins
Joe Louis - Jeremy Williams
Rocky Marciano - Bobby Crabtree
Sonny Liston - Courage Tshabalala
Muhammad Ali - Larry Donald
Joe Frazier - Bert Cooper
Mike Tyson - Gary Bell
Lennox Lewis - 1990's Wlad Klitschko

 

I think it’d be safe to add Ricardo Lopez to that group too.

 

The low hanging fruit for Ali is Jose Legra. I see a bit of Marciano in Sung Kil Moon, Ricardo Lopez and Louis are close enough? Jose Torres resembles Mike Tyson for obvious reasons.

Jack Johnson is a real tough one I haven’t watched a lot of the lower weight classes from that era and that’s really were you’d have to pluck them from to see that mauling, clinching strategy.

Smokin Bert could be for Joe Frazier but I feel like it doesn’t really count as Bert and Frazier were practically the same size. I think Cooper might be the naturally bigger guy.

 

Stanley Ketchel for Foreman is a good call.

 

Have there been any fighters with the style of Marciano?

 

I went with Beterviev, but I think Marciano applied pressure more relentlessly than Beterviev.

I almost went with McGovern, who was much more relentless than Beterviev, but he was more of an explosive front runner, than the attritional Marciano.

A Beterviev, McGovern and Armstrong hybrid, might be representative of Marcianos style and attributes.

 

Absolutely! All of these fighters had excellent footwork and most importantly to their success was their balance and how strong in their stance they were.

A lot of folks associate footwork with speed and movement but great footwork to me is dictating the range that the engagement takes place and always being in position to deliver offense from a balanced stance. All four guys had murderous straight right hands and were never wild with their punches.