The worst looking good/great fighters

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  1. Lankykong

    Lankykong Member Full Member

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    I want to make a list of the most unorthodox, ugly and awkwardly effective fighters. Boxers that require you to bring up their attributes/achievements. The kind of guys you'd have a hard time validating off of the eye test alone.

    I'm not counting the Ali's, Emmanuel Augustus', and Pryor's of the world. They still made their weird look good.

    The cutoff is whether you think they could win a title or not.

    So far I have:
    Michael Spinks
    Carlos Monzon
    Vitali Klitschko
    Saul Mamby
    Bazooka Limon
    Max Baer
    George Foreman
    Stanley Ketchel
    Teddy Yarosz
    Gene Fullmer
    Tyson Fury
    Emanuel Navarrete
    Ossie Occasio
    Rocky Marciano
    Carmen Basilio
    Manuel Medina
    Luis Lazarte
    Khaosai Galaxy
    Shoji Oguma

    Keep em coming!
     
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  2. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Max Baer, Corbett, Fitzsimmons.
     
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    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    Big George Foreman
     
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  4. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It depends whether you mean fighters that aren't aesthetically pleasing to watch or don't look effective, despite obviously being so.

    I don't think Mickey Walker or Emile Griffiths are stylists, but you can easily tell by watching them how effective they are.

    Neither Stanley Ketchel nor Teddy Yarosz (for very different reasons), look like they've top tier effective boxers at first glance, but they certainly were.
     
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  5. Journeyman92

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    Aaaah - Gene Fullmer
     
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  6. h8me

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    Tyson Fury
     
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  7. AwardedSteak863

    AwardedSteak863 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    70's Foreman was about as ugly as it gets.
     
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  8. Jakub79

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    Frans Botha... he wasn't a great boxer, of course, but looking at him, it was hard to imagine he could be a contender. Not very tall, not very fast, didn't look technically advanced, had rather average cardio, and an average jaw... yet he was a pretty strong heavyweight for a while.

    His compatriot Corrie Sanders also didn't look like a hero, with his paunch and ultra-stiff stance, but he had very fast hands.
     
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  9. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Daniel Zaragoza
     
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  10. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ossie Ocasio
     
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  12. Lankykong

    Lankykong Member Full Member

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    Not familiar with Corbet or Fitzsimmons or that era of boxing to find anything that stands out.

    Moreso the latter than the former, but a bit of both is needed.
     
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    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Rocky Marciano
    Alexis Arguello
    Naseem Hamed.

    And I love them all!
     
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    Marciano
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    Hamed
     
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