Favorite Boxing Style! Poll added

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by BoB Box, Jun 15, 2023.


What is your favorite boxing style?

  1. Swarmer

    3 vote(s)
    14.3%

  2. Boxer-Puncher

    17 vote(s)
    81.0%

  3. Brawler

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  4. Out-Boxer

    1 vote(s)
    4.8%
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  1. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    If this thread has been done before and you have seen it then consider this Deja Vu...Deja Vu.
    Votes are only for the primary styles so no sub styles like Counterpuncher, Switch Hitter , Pick a Boo etc..

    I added some honorable mentions for each style:
    NOTE: Some of the boxers mentioned changed styles later in their career or adapted during a bout by changing their style. No boxer mentioned is or is not exclusive to any particular style.///

    1. Swarmer

    Ken Norton
    Wilfredo Gomez
    Joe Frazier
    Jack Dempsey
    Henry Armstrong
    Aaron Pryor
    Harry Greb
    Jake LaMotta
    Carmen Basilio

    2. Boxer-Puncher

    Kid Chocolate
    Roberto Duran
    Ezzard Charles
    Bob Foster
    Max Schmelling
    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Joe Louis
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    3. Brawler

    Marvelous Marvin Hagler
    Aaron Pryor
    Stanley Ketchel
    Rocky Graziano
    Earnie Shavers
    Cleveland Williams
    Sonny Liston
    Floyd Patterson
    Rocky Marciano

    4. Out-Boxer

    Ali
    FMM
    Jack Johnson
    Larry Holmes
    Willie Pep
    Jimmy Young
    Tiger Flowers
    Nicolino Locche
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    Requested Edits: And also Refer to NOTE:
    @Bronze Tiger Swarmer - Jeff Fenech
    @Flo_Raiden Boxer Punchers - Wilfredo Gomez , Marvin Hagler , Sonny Liston
     
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  2. Fogger

    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    If the boxer-puncher is really good then that is easily my favorite style. Other than that, I will go with brawler.
     
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  3. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Take Wilfredo Gomez off the swarmer list …and add Jeff Fenech please
     
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  4. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Swarmers are my favorites…if you really want to find out what a man is made out of …let him get in the ring with a swarmer
     
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  5. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Boxer-Punchers. They are usually the most versatile. They can have the finesse of an out boxer with the punching power of a slugger, best of both worlds.

    I also like textbook stylists such as Harold Johnson, Ricardo Lopez, Alexis Arguello, Juan Manuel Márquez, Carlos Zarate, Felix Trinidad, Donald Curry, Yuri Arbachakov.
     
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  6. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Swarmers are never in a bad fight
     
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  7. greynotsoold

    greynotsoold Boxing Addict

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    I'm old, way older than those video games classifications.
    My favorite style is the St Paul style, which began in the early 1900s and is, in my opinion, the most influential style in boxing. Up until the 90s when the decline began and the video game nonsense took over.
    My second favorite style is the one that goes back to at least Joe Gans and led to Floyd Mayweather. Video game monkeys call it "The Philly Shell" though that term was never heard in any boxing gym until most boxing trainers learned their 'skills' from video games. Probably more a Detroit thing, really.
     
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  8. Flo_Raiden

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    I wouldn’t classify Wilfredo Gomez as a swarmer, nor Marvin Hagler and Sonny Liston as brawlers. All 3 of them should be considered as boxer-punchers.
     
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  9. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    That was the point of me adding the NOTE: under honorable mentions. Ill add an Edit for you.
     
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  10. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    Ill add Fenech under the Edit:
     
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  11. greynotsoold

    greynotsoold Boxing Addict

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    Just so you know...nobody uses any of these terms in honest to God boxing gyms. Maybe in fitness gyms, I don't know. No boxing guy that I have ever met uses these terms.
    If you think that saying "out boxer" or "swarmer" or "slugger" makes you sound like one of the fellas, it doesn't.
     
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  12. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    I like boxer-puncher but appreciate all styles. I’m wondering if Michael Spinks and Evander Holyfield should be in the boxer-puncher category
     
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  13. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    Lol! Read the post. This is a simplistic breakdown of you favorite style and that's it. And no I don't want to be part of you circle of "Fellas".
     
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  14. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    What terms are typically used to describe different styles ? Educate us so we can sound like one of the “ fellas “ which I really aspire to be
     
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  15. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Can I say what’s my LEAST FAVORITE STYLE…A style I can not watch …THE SOUTHPAW BOXER PUNCHER Robert Guerrero ..Austin Trout…Antonio Tarver…Vincent Saldivar …Jim Watt ….and yes Marvin Hagler too
     
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