Most complete fighters in boxing history

Yeah? and the Hearns fight was a perfect example of why he wasn’t unless you count being completely dominated by Hearns and then completely knocked out cold as a good example of a complete fighter that could do it all?

A complete fighter should be able to defeat all variety of opponents regardless of shape or ability and skill. I wouldn’t give Duran much of a chance against Hearns no matter how many times they met.

 

I don't think anyone comes as close as Sugar Ray Robinson....

 

Thanks for the great insightful post mate, very interesting and sad read. I knew about the Wilburn fatality with Hector but didn't know about the earlier one in my ignorance. It explains a lot actually, why Thompson seemed reluctant to let his hands go half the time. Very sad.

Thanks for the post again, it's always a pleasure to read peoples first hand accounts of history.

 

Hi mate I know its not on topic re. the thread and I apologise to the OP but the inimitable Senor Pepe did a thread about Hector.

[url]https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/hector-thompson-the-brisbane-bomber.430563/[/url]

 

Evander Holyfield?

 

Early on he was well rounded for sure. He looked sharp against Douglas even if Buster was a pound or 15 heavy.

 

So if he can`t beat Hearns {an alltime great} in his 4th Weight Division North he isnt a complete fighter? At age 33 no less?

 

He was complete at 135. Nobody could have done that to him at that weight.

 

Ezzard Charles,Ray Robinson, Evander Holyfield

 

Joe Louis and Sonny Liston

 

Ricardo Lopez as already mentioned
and Aron Pryor

 

Speaking for today's boxers, but I very much like Golovkin as a complete fighter. He's used just about every punch in the book, fights well from range behind the jab (Lemieux, Canelo) can KO a guy to the body (Macklin) with one punch (Ishida) or can plain brawl inside until the other guy drops or is stopped (Ouma, Brook). He's got power, he's accurate, he's got a chin and he's got stamina.

He's got a very underrated defence, and watching the Canelo and Jacobs fights gave me an appreciation of just how good GGG can be defensively when he wants to be. His footwork allows him to cut the ring or to create space as and when required.

Only thing I havent seen him do is fight an entire fight off the backfoot, which speaks highly of how strong he is going forward.

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He wouldn't have beaten Hearns on the best day of his life.

 

Ok that's a fair enough point.