Dirty boxing...

Lennox Lewis always held the back of his opponent's neck with his left hand and throw a right uppercut.

 

Larry Holmes i hate to say

 

Ali.

See the second Frazier fight.

 

Henry Cooper always held his opponent with his right hand to deliver his left hook with more power.

 

I erred, sorry. My choice didn't fit the TS' criteria

 

Ali is the dirtiest mother**** ever. Foreman pushed back

 

Hatton was great, Wlad is/was good, Ward (although he butts also) and definitely Ali.

HWs seem to do this more since there is generally more clinching and they have long levers which get tangled easily.

Master of the half-foul/ half-maul was surely Henry Armstrong.
Honourable mentions to Sandy Sadler though, he was awkward to the point where he was fouling also.

 

Fritzie Zivic wrote an impassioned defence of dirty fighting, in which he argued that all the great fighters of history were dirty fighters, and that a well-executed thumb to the eye was a thing of sublime beauty!

 

Eusebio Pedroza was a modern exponent of the art.

 

Eusebio pedroza
diego chavez

 

Shavers did a similar move with his uppercuts. Caught Bugner and Ellis like that.

 

Tony Galento. Fritzie Zivic.

 

Evander holyfield