Hardest to outbox?

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  1. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Who are/were the fighters of the past and present who are/were nearly impossible to outbox?
     
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  2. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Amir Khan, he's "impossible to outbox" LOL
     
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  3. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Hearns was a nightmare to box from the outside. Hagler fought a brilliant fight and put on one of the best displays ever of a boxer changing from one's original style.

    Obviously guys like Whitaker and Mayweather were difficult to outbox. That's a huge understatement
     
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  4. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hearns was hard to box from the outside because of his reach and speed. Floyd and Sweet Pea were hard to outbox because of their skills and ring IQ.

    Also, Hearns had an excellent jab.
     
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  5. ThatLeftaMarc

    ThatLeftaMarc Beast From The East Full Member

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    Wladimir now... no one can get passed him.

    Kovalev, Beterbiev(so far), Mayweather, Andre Ward
     
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  6. Ragamuffin

    Ragamuffin Active Member Full Member

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    In his prime Jimmy Young was difficult to land cleanly on.
     
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  7. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Disagree on Kovalev. Sillakh outboxed him for a round.
     
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  8. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    Look at my nickname. Guillermo "el chacal" Rigondeaux, nowadays there is no one that can outbox him.
     
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  9. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    You make it sound as if Hearns had no skills or ring IQ.

    :smoke
     
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  10. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    No he didn't lol, nothing much happened in that round and either man could take it, depending on whether you liked the head shots that Sillakh landed (of which there weren't many) or the jabs that Kovalev was landing to the body.

    I mean sure, Sillakh looked "cuter" in the ring with his bouncy footwork and circling but he wasn't boxing effectively, in the end he got timed and knocked out by a counter right (his dumb boxing was actually his demise).

    I and many other people actually gave the round to Kovalev, he didn't outbox Kovalev at all.
     
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  11. elchivito

    elchivito master betty Full Member

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    Lol c'mon man some people here acting like Whitaker or Floyd never lost a round.
     
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  12. glovesofcrimson

    glovesofcrimson Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Well hardest indicates the most difficult to win rounds against by trying to outbox them, not hardest to win rounds against, and Mayweather and Whitaker definitely take the cake if we're discussing that criteria.
     
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  13. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mayweather, Ward, Rigondeaux, Lomo (with more experience)

    Past 15-20 years you can add Jones and Whitaker.
     
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  14. Young Terror

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    Margarito
    Mayorga
    Tony Galento
    Micky Ward
    Richard Hall
    Omar Sheika
     
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  15. Bollywooden

    Bollywooden Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Why "LOL", who outboxed him?

    lol that statement is ridiculous. Regardless of who won the round, name a single fighter that hasn't lost one?
     
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