Fighters With the Best Footwork

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  1. pound

    pound Coqui Radar Full Member

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    Pacquiao by far. Its not even close.
     
  2. Marnoff

    Marnoff Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Floyd is the number one for footwork in the present day, and I think that's pretty clear.

    Hopkins might come second in this category. We're talking about a +45 year old man who is crafty enough on his feet to keep top athletes in their prime guessing.
     
  3. d0pestradamus

    d0pestradamus Active Member Full Member

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    Pac's footwork is ridiculous. To quote Johnny Drama...."Look at those calfs."

    RJJ had insanely fast footwork in his prime..

    Floyd obviously..

    SRL had amazing footwork...
     
  4. megavolt

    megavolt Constantly Shadowboxing Full Member

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    I actually happen to like Donaire's footwork.
     
  5. Rexrapper 1

    Rexrapper 1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ivan Calderon has pretty good footwork as well.
     
  6. klion22

    klion22 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yup, Floyd, Hopkins and Pacman have amazing footwork.

    Floyd is great at fighting off the back foot. He's always leaning backwards and looking to counter but also lead at times. His reflexes are also amazing which help him a lot with his offense and defense.

    Pacman? What can you say. The guy's foot speed is off the charts. Roach has polished this guy into a devastating machine. He is so much more improved with keeping his feet under him instead of lunging forward and being off balanced like he used to be. It's night and day. His offense is now controlled mayhem whereas in the past, it used to be uncontrolled mayhem.

    Hopkins? The utter matter of controlling distance and range. Not to mention, always having his feet under him when he's throwing those power shots. He's almost always never off balanced.
     
  7. Farmboxer

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  8. JIM KELLY

    JIM KELLY Bullshyt Mr Han Man! Full Member

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    today..

    Haye has good footwork.
     
  9. EJDiaZ

    EJDiaZ Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sweet Pea-Ali-Pac-PBF-Judah
     
  10. LatinKing416

    LatinKing416 Guest

    im not a huge fan of the little 'pony-step' that cotto does that even his colleague henry bruselles acquired


    who knows what im talking about?
     
  11. joeyboy

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    I really liked the way Barrera and Hatton use a quick side step to get the body shots around the elbows of their opponent, its not easy to place a body shot like that.
     
  12. hooligan

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  13. Mr Fixter

    Mr Fixter Member Full Member

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    Prince Naseem Hamed had good footwork.
     
  14. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Are we talking footwork of foot speed here???

    Great foot speed but very poor footwork at world level - Hatton

    Poor foot speed but great foot work at world level - Joe Louis
     
  15. tomj

    tomj Guest

    pernell whitaker, awesome footwork to get out of the way of pretty much anything anyone threw