Aethestically Pleasing and Ugly Fighters to Watch

Keep in mind there's a difference between being aesthetically pleasing and being exciting. I'm talking more about the movements, punching style and form, technique, grace, balance, etc....

For example, Floyd Mayweather can stink out the joint at times, but is aesthetic in the sense that his movements, punching technique, defense, form, etc...are all a pleasure to watch. I find him artistic to watch.

On the other hand, Michael Katsidis was not aesthetically pleasing, he was ugly to watch, but was in a lot of good exciting action fights. He would throw a right hand in a downward motion, and on the follow-thru his elbow would often make contact with his opponent's head. One of the ugliest right hands you'll see. But also was tough and gutsy and involved in some terrific fights. Loved the Joel Casamayor war.

Matthew Saad Muhammad was someone who made exciting two-way action fights and I found aesthetically pleasing. He had a good punching form IMO, he threw one of the most best uppercuts ever when he took out Lottie Mwale. And he was arguably the most exciting fighter ever.

Aesthetically pleasing:

Floyd Mayweather
Salvador Sanchez
Sugar Ray Robinson

Donald Curry: his left hook that dropped Milton McCrory still might be the most beautiful left hook I've ever seen.

Mike Tyson: beautiful punching technique, his famous right hook to the body, right uppercut to the head is a sight to behold. The way he finished Pinklon Thomas was great, all sorts of punches thrown from different angles, thrown with speed and leverage. His defense when he was younger was good to watch as well.

Alexis Arguello: No wasted motion. Loved his killer straight right, left hook (check out the rematch with Escalera), maybe the best uppercut to the body you'll ever see.

Joe Louis: maybe the best combination puncher ever. Had pretty much every punch in the book. Threw them with textbook technique and wonderful precision

James Toney; very smooth, the shoulder roll was beautiful to see. In that sense, he's like a more stationary Floyd Mayweather, who let his hands go more often in combo, and a master on the inside, which often made him a joy to watch.

Not aesthetically pleasing:

Jermain Taylor
Sergio Martinez
Junior Witter
Carlos Monzon

Vitali Klitschko: sort of fights like a HW Monzon,

Joe Calzaghe: punching style was mostly just terrible to watch. I did like the Jeff Lacy fight though.

Jeff Fenech: could be pretty ugly to watch, mainly he did this thing where he'd square up and throw these arm punches as fast as he could. It was just ugly. Like the quick Wing Chun center line attack, but the Wing Chun move looked much better.

John Ruiz: no explanation needed.

Amir Khan: fights like the Energizer Bunny on speed. Just an ugly re****ed style, particularly with those arm flurries. He sometimes looks as if he's practically running into his opponent when he throws a right hand and falls onto them, resulting in a clinch.

 

Carlos Maussa


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