Fighters whose styles were totally original...for their time, or all time...

Ricardo Mayorga, who is not a pressure fighter, but people seem to want to mislabel him as such. Mayorga fights in spurts. He waits a little, then comes at you sledge hammer style; waits a little, then comes at you sledge hammer style.

 

How about James Toney?

 

Well, Floyd Patterson used that style before him.

 

Terry McGoverns style was seen as revolutionary at the time. One paper described him as having redefined boxing for all time with his agresive go for broke style.

Jem Mace was seen as being totaly revolutionary in technical terms. Perhaps the first real pure technician.

To my mind these are the two most important figures in developing boxing technique as we know it today.

 

The contemporary view of McGoverns influence after he lost the title.

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:rofl The sad part is he beat somebody.:rofl

 

A better paralel might be Jimmy Slatterey or Dixie Kid though I dont know what Ali saw or knew about these fighters.

 

I was going to mention Slattery,he was one of the first of post WW1 fighters to box with his hands at waist height,ala Ali.Good call Janitor.Jem Mace too is a man who revolutionized prize fighting,introducing brains and guile to what had essentially been a thud and blunder sport.

 

Pep, and Hamed are the first two to really stand out to me

 

I'm surprised Carlos Monzon hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

LOL, no:

Naseem came from Ingle, a lot of Ingle fighters fought in that style; most famously Bomber Graham, who was making opponents look like fools whilst Naseem was barely in double digits.

 

Early Naseem Hamed was definitely from the Brendan Ingle/Herol Graham mould, but from the Kevin Kelley fight and on he became more obssessed with power punching and became even more unorthodox. I think his strange style went beyond the normal Ingle style. It became less dancing and elusiveness, and more leaping, launching those crazy corkscrew flying punches, and more clowning.

 

Yes; they all had slight variations on the basic style. Naseem in the end lost it a bit and like you say was more intersted in power punching. I think it showed that anyone brought up with the Ingle style finds it hard to adapt to a new trainer. So many of the basics semed to be missing with Naseem, and yet somehow he always got away with it; Barrera being the exception to prove the rule.

 

RJJ

Winky Wright's open gloved high guard is also quite unique - he would never have been able to do it in the old days of course with the smaller gloves.

Pavlik - the 'lanky attacker' is the most unusal style.