Great\very good fighters with very unorthodox or sloppy punching method

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  1. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    Who are the most notable fighters in this respect...the fighters who were very effective outside of the textbook norm, or who often made unusual punchpicking choices

    Joe Calzaghe is an obvious recent example.

    Jones jr with his emphasis on left-hooking, often leaping in or thrown from odd angles.Largely dispensing with a jab.

    Galindez and Azumah Nelson favouring of punching in bunches with very telegraphed wide powershots, when they were quite capable of throwing straighter and more precisely.

    Marciano, Roldan, Mugabi, Moon....fighters who's offensive output mostly consisted of accurate clubbing bombs with all their bodyweight behind nearly every shot.

    Jung-Koo Chang and Pryor for clubbing sloppy, odd angled volume punching.

    Doug DeWitt and Marvin Johnson for really unusual combination punching choices.

    Erik Morales and Chris Eubank for boxer-punchers that varied widely from fight to fight in terms of sharp textbook precision and pure slop.Or even from round to round.

    Who else did you find to have unusual punching approaches?.
     
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  2. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    max baer has some of the worst technique found on film. very effective though
     
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  3. Bobo

    Bobo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    definitely Vassiliy Jirov
     
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  4. Bobo

    Bobo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    and George Foreman looked like he had cannons for fists as his arms could swing like windmills and he got amazing leverage
     
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  5. Azzer85

    Azzer85 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  6. zadfrak

    zadfrak Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bazooka Limon deserves a mention. Renaldo Snipes was another guy although very good fighter does not apply.
     
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  7. Flea Man

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    Saensak Muangsurin.
     
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  8. luke

    luke Well-Known Member Full Member

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    larry holmes in the 90's hits with the first knuckle.
     
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  9. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member

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    This guy.

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  10. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    does tiger jack fox count as even good...his technique was apparently among the worst in history
     
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  11. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    Canzoneri, McLarnin...IMO
     
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  12. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    Tapia & Nelson
     
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