Cleanest Fighters of all Time?

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  1. Hookandjab

    Hookandjab Well-Known Member Full Member

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    We hear plenty about the foulers and cheaters. How about the cleanest boxers? Tiger Flowers, perhaps? I heard he was a devout man. Michael Grant? I need help with this thread.
     
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  3. Glassbrain

    Glassbrain Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Always saw Sugar Shane as a clean fighter (no pun).
     
  4. Hookandjab

    Hookandjab Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I remember Michael Grant saying, "God bless you" to his opponent after the instructions prior to the fight!
     
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    Tunney, Louis, Loche, M. Taylor, Wright
     
  8. jowcol

    jowcol Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Patterson of course! :D
    My goodness, he tore Quarry's eye open early in their first fight and then seemed to not go near it the rest of the way.
    After KO'ing Ingo & Cooper he ran over and bent down trying to help them.
    On three or four occasions, he actually tried to help a fighter up after knocking them down.
    Darn Floyd, you could have had a little more 'nasty' in you as Andy Griffith would have said.
    Guess that would have made him a better fighter but less loved by all us fans of his.
     
  9. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  10. sugarkills

    sugarkills Active Member Full Member

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    Yeah, I gotta agree. No dirty tricks. Just great fundamental boxing. He's similar to Louis, textbook boxer with power...although Pryor did outbox him in their fights.
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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  12. Unforgiven

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    Probably no one famous.
    You don't get far in professional boxing unless you know how to bend the rules a bit, no matter how talented.
     
  13. cleglue1

    cleglue1 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I 2nd Patterson!
     
  14. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I believe he was picking McNeely of the floor after put him down.
     
  15. Unforgiven

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    Patterson tended to hit opponents with looping right hands to the back of the head.
    He was also a bit reckless coming in with his own head. That was his style.