Name who you think the best respective offensive and defensive fighters from these decades 1970's 80's 90's 00's And who are the two best?
70s: offensive: Duran defensive: Napoles? Don´t really know. 80s: offensive: Tyson defensive: Benitez 90s: offensive: Jones Jr. perhaps Chavez, young Wlad defensive: Whitaker 00s: offensive: Pacman, Hamed defensive: PBF, Winky, B-Hop The two best? offensive: Duran defensive: Whitaker
1970's Offense: Duran Defense: Canto (Locche has better D, but he was done fairly early on in the decade) 80's Offense: Hearns Defense: Benitez 90's Offense: Jones Defense: Whitaker 00's Offense: Pacquiao Defense: Mayweather Best overall: Offense: Hearns Defense: Whitaker
'70s: Offense: Monzon Defense: Benitez '80s: Offense: Hearns Defense: Whitaker '90s: Offense: Lennox? Defense: Toney? '00s: Offense: Pacqiao, maybe Israel Vazquez Defense: Hopkins Best overall: Offense: Hearns Defense: Hopkins or Whitaker
My picks were 70's Offense: Duran Defence: I was going to say Locche but then I thought Benitez, hard one I didnt really compensate for fighter who spanned two decaded sucessfully when making the thread. Admittedly my knowledge of the 70's isnt awesome. 80's Offense: Couldnt go past Iron Mike, its really what he was known for. Jackson & Hearns deserve a special mention. Defence: Stick with Benitez here. 90's Offense: Tito sprang to mind for me. As did Roy but Tito's more offensively minded approach swayed me. Defence: Whitaker hands down for mine, didnt think there would be to much debate. 00's Offense: Pac for sure but I also thought of Fernando Montiel for some reason, he has a been champ pretty much since 2000, he has been like 20-2 in this decade, majority of them title fights scoring 16 kos against some pretty decent opposition. Power in both hands with just about every shot in the book at his disposal, better than Pac? no way but worth a mention. Defence: Hopkins Best... Offence: Cant go past Duran Defense: Gotta go with Sweet Pea Again hard to narrow this one down sometimes because many of those fighters had a prime career that spanned two decades, thanks for the input guys.
I will not narrow it down to 2, unless its definitive 1970's - Offense - Duran, Foreman, Frazier, Arguello Defense - Loche, Duran 80's Offense - Tyson, Hearns Defense - Tyson, Duran, 90's - Offense - Tyson, Lewis, Hamed, Jones, Barrera Defense - Jones, Mayweather, Whitaker, Toney 00's - Offense - Jones, Calazage, Corrales, Pacquaio, Guzman Defense - Mayweather, Hopkins, Joan Guzman, Toney Some of the offensive fighters are there for their ability to land and dominate rather than their power
70's - Offense: Duran Defense: Canto 80's - Offense: Tyson or Hearns Defense: Sumbu Kalamby 90's - Offense: Probably Jones, Trinidad is a good call Defense: Whitaker 00's - Offense: Pacquiao Defense: Mayweather and Hopkins
I dont think just landing on people is necessarily to only componant of a good offensive fighter. I think using your offense to stifle you opponants, even when you arent landing consistently is an important part of rating a fighter for his offensive ability. I mean the way he kept guys like Whitaker & Camacho under wraps, albeit faded versions, had a lot to with his offensive ability. In the 7 years he was a champ in the 90's only 3 of his title fights went the rounds.
The eighties was a great time for defensive specialists. About half the weightclasses had truly great defensive fighters in them.
Obviously destroying Blocker was pretty decent because Tito was so young. Dealing with the unbeaten versions of Oba Carr and Campas is pretty decent, especially the brutal ways both those fights ended. And their subsequent longevity as contenders, especially Campas, proved they were no flash in the pan fighters. Again Pineda may well fall into that category, he went 11 with Kostya and made him look bad, whereas Tito just took him out. He dealt with Sweet Pea better than Oscar less than 2 years earlier. Absolutely demolishing Troy Waters holds a bit of weight in my book because Troy was one of the best fighters to come out of Australia at the time. What really made me go with Tito is that he stopped the guys he was supposed to stop, whereas I think Roy toyed a lot with guys and wanted to show off his defence aswelll as offence. Quite a few of his fights either went longer than they should of or went the rounds when if he had just brought out RJ they wouldnt of. Only guys that lasted with Felix were Macho, Sweet Pea and DLH..certainly no shame in not stopping them.
70's - Offense: Duran, Gomez and Foster Defense: Canto 80's - Offense: Hearns, Tyson and Chavez Defense: Wilfred Benitez 90's - Offense: Lewis Defense: Whitaker 00's - Offense: Rafael Marquez Defense: Mayweather
