Most beautiful boxing style you've seen...

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  1. babaluma

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    I always liked Meldrick Taylor and a more obscure choice but Colin McMillan
     
  2. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Francois Botha
    Pierre Coetzer
    Johnny du Plooy
     
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    Ricardo Lopez "stiff"?!?!? Are we talking about the same Ricardo Lopez???
     
  4. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Napoles
    Laguna
    Joltin' Jeff Chandler
     
  5. Matty lll

    Matty lll Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You obviously like Jeff Chandler and that magazine says he was the best fighter no one knows. Tell me about him? :good
     
  6. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    :yep
     
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    I can't believe there was this many Ken Buchanon shout outs
     
  8. TheSouthpaw

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    Joe Louis hands down..the most beautiful boxer ever..
     
  9. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why?
     
  10. red cobra

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    Willie Pastrano vs Harold Johnson...non stop beautiful boxing all the way...Willie had to have influenced Ali in this bout.
     
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    It changes from time to time... but today, it is:

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  12. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

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    Napoles is just the smoothest ever, everything he does looks effortless. Hagler is probably my go to for what a Boxer's style should be, beautiful aesthetically, functional, varied, smart and just plain badass.
     
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    Great picks Ioakeim

    But personally, I just can’t ignore how much of the techniques these fighters are shown to use in these compilations, Durán also used them, blended them together, and created an incredibly sweet and tasty mix of scientific boxing; one whose flavor has yet to be topped, at least for me.
     
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  14. ThatOne

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    Ali, both Sugar Rays, Oscar.
     
  15. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

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    Oh yeah for sure, Duran is more skilled than both, agreed. He has a very attractive style as well, especially during that 78-80 run from De Jesus 3 to Leonard 1. Purely when it comes to aesthetics though, I just can't help but drool at Napoles' effortless work and Hagler's sheer "Boxingness" (I can't find another way to describe it).

    Duran is how skilled and complete I'd want to be as a fighter, but Napoles and Hagler are how I would want to look like. Not that I don't want to look like Duran either, he's got mad swag too.
     
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