Examples of swarmers beating techinically gifted punchers?

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  1. DonBoxer

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    Little Kalasinn when will you ever learn to stop Tyson nuthugging :D
     
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    Frazier beat Foreman?
     
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    Unless he thinks Foreman was a swarmer? I'm not sure which is the more grevous error...
     
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    :lol:that was my first thought on the first page

    best one so far as said is harada-jofre

    armstrong over chalky wright and lew jenkins?

    iran barkley over tommy hearns? not a traditional swarmer but he certainly used his size and physicality
     
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    Very surprised no one has mentioned Basilio-Robinson yet. Fulmer-Robinson could probably qualify as well (as of course LaMotta-Robinson, but that as already been mentioned).
     
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    good catches:good

    following from another thread: sammy angott over ike williams
     
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    Henry Armstrong vs Barney Ross
     
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    :thinkross was a gifted boxer, but puncher i'm not sure
     
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    Ralph Tiger Jones over Ray Robinson
     
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    Yeah he wasn't much of a "puncher" but he did have pop. I really couldn't think of much:D
     
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    true but BB, that wasn't quite the real robinson:think
     
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    Donald Curry/LLoyd Honeyghan. I don't know if Honeyghan was really a "swarmer" but I know he was all over Curry that night they fought.
     
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    :thumbsuphoneyghan, post curry at least, utilized a similar strategy. he turned himself into a 147 pound tyson, rushing in with fast, violent combinations. like you said, honeyghan was on curry like flies on **** that night
     
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    :lol:Yeah I'm going to rewatch that fight today. Somehow youtube requires that I sign up to see it:think. For all the cursing in some videos that I can see without signing up they want me to sign up for watching a boxing fight?:patsch:lol:.
     
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    **** yeah i just realised the Foreman-Frazier one is void, Frazier was the swarmer there defo.