You can’t look past Mohamed Ali for this one. All bets are off. When you look at footage of Cassius Clay fighting sonny liston , it is hard to think you are watching a heavyweight ! Poetry in motion, unfortunately I, like a lot of us on here we’re too young to witness his skills live, but he is pretty much the Jesus of boxing. I rest my case.
How bout we stick this thread up yee ass instead???? Yeah Floyd was great but we are talking most skills ever. The most skilled for specific periods of time for sure, but not ever.
Ali had a Granite Chin also....fought in an Era where some of the Heaviest Punchers we have ever seen...Had it all Speed...agility....Great Chin and could adapt to most situations...
Loma or Floyd, dont say SRL or some old school boxers, they werent even as skilled as even A- boxers nowadays, sports evolve, and if u were to put best boxers from 1960-1980 (with the skillset they had back then) with the best boxers of today, it would be easy picking for Floyd, Loma etc
If Lomachenko beats Rigo, then I will have to say that he is the most skilled fighter ever and getting better. Rigo has skills, lots of skills, but don't think he can beat Lomachenko, not because of size either................but you never know in boxing..................just hope it's a clean fight, no cheating, no criminal judges, referee, boxing commission, purely a level playing field is what I want to see and that goes for all fights.........
Most complete, I mean it's hard to say one person individually. SRR is probably the right default answer, but in terms of overall skill set (offensively and defensively) I think you need to think about Duran too. Pep can SRL can be in the conversation but I think SRR is probably my choice. Ali is a good shout too, as obvious as one as it seems. In terms of pure skill, it's a tough one really. I think skill is perhaps too arbitrary a term in some respects to have a solid answer to that one.