Cuties: Are the actually the greatest boxers???

Saoul Mamby warrants mention in this category.

 

Great list! I'll add some recent ones that come to mind like Corey Spinks and Sven Ottke. Neither could punch worth a crap but they could box people's ears off.

 

I m trying to think of more myself
Sweatpea
Canto
Pep
Come to mind

 

Cuties are my favorite, Young of course, George Chaplin, Orlin Norris, Witherspoon could be at times, Mamby, Vilimar Fernandez, Harold Brazier, sometimes tough to separate a cutie from someone who is just a good boxer though

 

Are you talking about Tyson Fury here?

 

Jersey Joe Walcott
Nicolino Locche
Tommy Loughran
Vilomar Fernandez

 

joebeadg, they're my favorites too...(we're fellow Jimmy Young fans) finally, a thread that celebrates my favorite boxers!!...
The term "cutie" is clever as well, in that it's a pretty big umbrella term that takes in guys like Jimmy Young, his distant stylistic relative Mike The Bounty Hunter, Joey Archer, Greg Haugen, Holly Mimms, Sammy Angott....and you're absolutely right about the confusion between cuties and classic boxers...although I wouldn't worry so much about that confusion as the lines do get blurred at times.
The classic cutie would be IMO, Joey Giardello. He had no amateur fights...like Billy Conn, another cutie.....Joey put in his apprenticeship from his beginnings in 1948, throughout the 50's, when he was a fixture on the great Gillette Friday Night Fights. Joey experienced it all....he was bloodied at times, flat out knocked out, most notably by Harold Green in 1950 (he was only stopped 4 times in all)...and he lost numerous decisions, some deserved, some not deserved...but by 1960, he was a bonafide graduate of the School of Hard Knocks....with a degree in Ring Wizardry. He demonstrated that wizardry in December 1963 when he out boxed Dlck Tiger for the world middleweight title...and used his entire cuties' bag of tricks (that Jimmy Young came to own) when in '64, he out boxed, out thought, out moxied and decisioned Ruben Hurricane Carter over the 15 round distance. Fighters today get discouraged, disheartened, and totally discombobulated when they lose a "0",... when they suffer a stoppage, lose a few decisions, and basically go through only a fraction of what Giardello went through in his career. Giardello was a true one of a kind cutie...a ring wizard if there ever was one.
Another ...modern day cutie I've come to fully appreciate, especially after watching him totally outclass David LeMeiux,...is Billy Joe Saunders....I don't like his out of the ring "exploits",....but I'm a fan regarding his brilliant defensive skill.

 

Picasso could actually draw extremely well. He drew these at fourteen:
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And he would later occasionally do quite realistic portrait sketches when he felt like it:

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Ismael Laguna deserves a mention

 

Jersey Joe Walcott was a cutie that could KO you with either hand but not always consistant & sometimes gave one away to get a money fight

 

I am so disappointed....I thought this was going to be a thread about Mia St. John

 

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Well if you delete your post I will have to delete mine ...you do know there is a delete option right by the edit one???

 

Chris Byrd, Fast Eddie Chambers, Jimmy Young