Fighters who made the ring extremely small for their opponents

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    Name fighters who were the best at cutting off the ring against any type of opponents.

    JCC is one of them, Mike Tyson in his prime as well
     
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    Henry Armstrong
    Aaron Pryor
    Joe Frazier
    George Foreman
    Dwight Qawi Muhammed
    Fighting Harada
    Ruben Olivares
    Roberto Duran
    By all accounts, Harry Greb
     
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    Bennie Briscoe
    on these shores Dave Green maybe.
     
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    Wilfredo Gomez.
     
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    The absolute best ones have basically all been mentioned but some good ring cutters that came to mind were:

    Jake Lamotta
    Joe Louis
    Tommy Hearns
    Ricardo Lopez
    Roman Gonzalez
    Archie Moore
    Naoya Inoue
    Carlos Monzon
    Gennady Golovkin
    Dick Tiger
    Jeff Fenech
    Carlos Zarate
    Sergey Kovalev
    Sam Langford
    Miguel Cotto
    Marco Antonio Barrera
    Sandy Saddler
    Mike McCallum
    Artur Beterbiev
    Vasiliy Lomachenko
    Vicente Saldivar
    Joe Gans
    Jung Koo Chang
    Azumah Nelson
    Rocky Marciano
     
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    Dwight Muhammad Qawi.
     
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    Micheal Spinks :bandit:
     
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    D1ck Tiger was a fighter people beat by staying in motion - I don’t think he qualifies here, if you came at him it was like speeding into brick wall but otherwise…
     
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    I’m waiting for the most blindly repeated thing on this forum “George Foreman” the guy who successfully cut the ring against… Ken Norton? lol.
     
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    You were definitely better off moving against Tiger than you were coming to him but still I always felt he was good at closing the ring and keeping himself in position
     
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    Roman Gonzalez. His breakdown of Villoria was masterful in that aspect.
     
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    Good call on both. I wouldn’t have thought of Dave Boy but certainly fits in this category.
     
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    Orlando Canizales great footwork and a master at using angles.
     
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