Best European defensive stylist\specialist

guess chisora is a zimbabwean fighter to.


he learned his trade in italy. he was trained by italian trainers and fought for italy witth italian support wherever he went..he is italian. that is enough for me.



to the thread, a european fighter with defensive style and considered that persons speciality. got to include bomber graham. naseem hamed could be contentious.

 

IAN NAPA forgot to say.
if there was somemore footage he was a pleasure to watch. micro james toney. no power but crisp shots on the inside taking almost not punches. just way too small for the division. 5'0 bantamwieght wen he was more of a flyweight and still able to totally out-mongoose opponants

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Ireland's Mike McTigue was dreadful to watch (Patrick Myler described him as being "as exciting as watching a caterpillar munching a cabbage"), but his defensive style was effective enough to help him remain a top fighter in a tough era for many years.

Ike Weir, the "Belfast Spider", was known to be squirmy and extremely hard to hit.

Owen Moran and Freddie Welsh were both outstanding defensive specialists.

 

Good info, it's surprising West Africa produces high quality technical boxers given their lack of infrastructure/old school boxers/trainers. You have Kalambay/Dick Tiger/Quartey/Ibeabuchi/Clottey all very technical guys. Supposedly though there allot of fights though go on under the radar of boxrec in Africa though and guys that challenge for titles usually have had more fights than their record shows. Guys that come out of Africa can be really good and better than their record suggests or pretty pathetic, a mixed job

 

Nelson - coming out of nowhere, having only 13 fights and no expereince at all at the high level looked great against Sanchez.

I like those kind of surprises - when a quality fighter like Pirog or Donaire appears out of the blue and shocks everybody not only with an unexpected result but with good skills also.

 

Boza was a straight up English lad, born and bred in Orkney apparently.

Welsh is a good shout, for an inside pressure fighter, he focussed heavily on defence with his crouching style. Also well known for a great jab.

 

Wladimir Klitschko.

 

Both Klitschko's are hard to hit. Wlad's defense is based on a high guard, jab, and intercepting right hand. If that fails, he's a developed excellent clinching skills. Vitali doesn't have a high guard. Instead he relies more on footwork, anticipation, and head movement for defense. Neither brother gets hit much, which is a reason why they are very effective older fighters.


Calzahe was tough to time and hit cleanly. Cerdan had a good defense for his style. So did Italy's Duilio Loi

 

No he wasn't, ask Robin Reid