Currently top 5 defensive skills in boxing?

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  1. Wildcat

    Wildcat Ted Grant banned Full Member

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    Which fighters have the best defensive skills currently? Rank as the top 5.

    My rank:
    1-Ginger
    2-Loma
    3-Crawford
    4-Fury
    5-Colbert
     
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  2. Conteh'sLeft

    Conteh'sLeft Active Member Full Member

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    Haney, Stevenson, Canelo, Colbert and Ennis in no particular order .
     
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  3. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    No specific top 5 but just to throw some names into the hat.....

    Canelo
    Loma
    Tyson Fury
    Sunny Edwards
    Tevin Farmer
    Bud Crawford
     
  4. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Loma

    The rest
     
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  5. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    People boast about these safety-first long reach boxing from range defensive masters barely getting wet or not getting drenched whilst walking in a rainstorm with an umbrella but what Loma is doing is barely getting wet whilst doing the same minus an umbrella.
     
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  6. senpai

    senpai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Loma #1 of course.
     
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  7. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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  8. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    In no particular order:
    Loma
    Canelo
    Farmer
    Plant
    Fury
     
  9. elmaldito

    elmaldito Skillz Full Member

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    plant
    crawford
    colbert
    loma
    fury
     
  10. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Loma by far

    He is more active than almost anyone while getting hit less than anyone
     
  11. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Loma's one of the most aggressive fighters in the game whilst simultaneously having the best (or at least he was the last time they were released) plus/minus numbers, and is often giving away significant/huge physical advantages (reach and weight), and has fought a slew of the fastest fighters the game in GRJ, Linares, Rigo and Lopez.


    Look what happened when he had the reach advantage for a change against GRJ and that was only by an inch.

    He was all over him like a soup sandwich constantly attacking from the outset to the final bell but he managed to limit him to landing just 10% of his punches even though GRJ has the fastest hands in the game according to many.

    Rigo is a magician with the reflexes of a mongoose and who strikes with the speed and precision of a snake and he could barely lay a glove on Loma even though many were adamant he was going to destroy him

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