Coolest boxer/boxing style you've ever seen?

I was always partial to the relaxed style. And 3 welterweights from the same era embodied the relaxed style. That was Harold Weston, Angel Espada and Hedgemon Lewis. I just loved the way they would expend energy when needed but also be content to lay in the weeds and poke around to find that opening.

 

Floyd Patterson. Always poised, every move designed to set up the next. He just had that quickness, a true middleweight in a field of heavyweights. Grace and power -

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Roy Jones for me. Incredible at his best.

 

Jose Napoles.

 

Kid Gavilan
Pernell Whitaker
José Napoles
Wilfredo Gomez
Roy Jones Jr
Wilfred Benitez
Eusebio Pedroza
Orlando Canizales
Miguel Lora
Ernesto Marcel
Veeraphol Sahaprom

 

Sugar Ray Leonard for me. Could fight any style he wanted to. Beautiful boxer

 

Mandela, your mention of Arbachakov reminded me of his contemporary, the Thai Chatchai Sasakul. Such a smooth boxer. I actually had him ahead in both fights with Yuri. I also had him well ahead in his bout with Manny Pacquiao before falling victim to a crashing left haymaker to Manny.

 

I liked that fluid relaxed Panamanian style like the Jose Legra/ Zapata type boxers.
And alot of Colombian boxers had a very smooth style lie Luis Mendoza and Happy Lora.

 

I really enjoy watching these 3 operators as well. Really high skill level represented here

 

It’s got to be Duran, I like to watch a master of the feint

 

Nowhere was that skill more evident than June 1980 in the "Brawl in Montreal." (Duran's magnum opus performance!!)

 

Always found the St. Paul bait and counter style that Tunney employed against Gibbons to be cool as ****. Joe Gans boxes like the stylistic lovechild of Mayweather and Fitzsimmons, it's impressive how he's able to make that arched back stance work.

 

Im partial to a few different styles.
When I first got involved with the sport I liked Nortons cross armed style.
Films of the way George Benton fought really impressed me along with James Toney. The way these two could fight in the pocket was great.
Also liked the Kronk style with the low left and the rt rocked.
A few of the styles I really like.

 

Outside the ring I always liked Frazier’s style. People talk like he was a blue collar sort (which he was) but he was also the snappiest dressed boxer you’d see. The man had an eye (in Joes case literally) for fashion.