Sam Langford with his freakish strength and long arms, Rocky Marciano who fit murderous power into a small frame and short punches, Cooneys one armed hook, Sandy Sadler, Tommy Hearns big men for there LBS, Armstrongs stamina, Julian Jacksons power, Fraziers sweeping hook, Willie Peps movement and ring smarts, Bob Fosters power in a lanky frame, Oliver McCalls chin.....any others freakish fighters you can think of
Greb had freakish, speed, stamina, ability to lose weight, and a freakish ability to look like he didnt know the first thing about boxing and still decisively defeat many of boxings all time greatest fighters.
Roy Jones - muscles bulging all over the place. even his muscles have muscles and the best thing about him is his superior speed-he has the speed of a flyweight. alot of fighters have speed but they dont have alot of power. Roy Jones has the most speed i ever seen coming from a fighter and has power to go along with it. He's awesome
Roy Jones first pops to mind for the reasons above. Just incredible, freakish physicality in his prime. Maybe the most purely athletically gifted p4p fighter of all-time. Not greatest "boxer," but physically you'd be hard pressed to name someone that can match him.
Roy Jones doesnt get enough respect around here. His technique wasn't perfect but his accuracy was the best I seen (Jones-Johnson round 4) and when you can sink lightheavyweights with one body shot no one can rightfully crticize his technique with a straight face. The way he unleashed multi punch flurries in his youth, I pitied the fool that crossed his path.
Surely the biggest freak of all was Primo Carnera. Born in 1906, he was an Italian who became World Heavyweight champion. Carnera was six feet seven or eight inches tall and 270 pounds in weight, and was the biggest Heavyweight champion, until very recently anyway. Carnera enjoyed a sizeable reach advantage over most rivals and towered over most Heavyweights of his era, who were usually at least 60 pounds lighter and 7 inches smaller. Carnera lost his title to Max Baer, who not only beat him easily, he made him look silly in the process.
Winky Wright has freakishly long arms for beeing a stocky built. Panama Al Brown was very tall for his weight. Bob Fitzsimmons and Joe Choynski had both enormous power but if you look at a picture you wouldn´t believe it. Barbados Joe Walcott was 5'1'' and knocked out hws.
Only if you watch the knockdowns, and not the 9 rounds in between during which Carnera was having the better of Baer. Jeffries' strength, size (for his time), and ability to soak up punishment deserves a mention.