Most extreme examples of the "Glass cannon" archetype in boxing?

Oh, and I knew I was forgetting about tons of Poles; names have eluded me until just now.

Krzysztof Zimnoch has to be @ the forefront. To a lesser extent Grzegorz Proksa (though I'm not sure his power was quite good enough, nor chin quite bad enough).

There have to be a plethora of in-between examples that I just can't think of at the moment. Right? I'm not just imagining this? Poland has a reputation nearly rivaling that of Nigeria or Colombia for producing delicate bangers?

 

Indeed. One could by that same logic argue for prime JMM.

He was a low-key BEAST in those days, 2004-2007 (his savage thrashings of solid Asian fringe contenders Jandaeng & Jaca were just nasty to watch); nearly finished off tough Victor Polo but of course was famously dribbled face-first off the canvas repeatedly by Pacquiao early in the draw that sparked their rivalry. The MAB fight is a microcosm of this: he very badly hurt Barrera only to be dropped moments later.

His power was probably never more than "medium", even at his peak in the lower weights, but coupled with the precision and sharpness of his punching, he more than earned the nickname "Dinamita". But he also never rid himself of that air of fragility.

 

WOW, took seven pages for any of us to call to mind perhaps the single all-time biggest embodiment of this phenomenon (besides Hide)!!!

GREAT shout, that.

 

I did, very first post.

 

Ohhh right. Yeah, conflated Green with Stevens, because of his (very different) association with Codrington - but actually come to mention it Stevens almost fits the bill himself. If his chin was just a tad worse, he'd be almost the paragon.