Most successful feather fisted fighters

Floyd

Fury - His size difference is so vast and stamina so great that he doesn't need it anyway. His beatings are worse because he is an accumulation finisher. If Fury had more power without detrimenting his other assets I don't think anyone would get in a ring with him.

Paulie
Bradley
Loma

 

I don't think most of the names listed were/are "feather-fisted". Not Fury, Mayweather, Lomachenko, Calzaghe, Pep, etc. Malignaggi, Calderon, Rosenbloom, and Ottke fit the bill, though. I imagine Midget Wolgast does, too. One of the greatest flyweights of all-time who was more of a speed boxer who overwhelmed guys with craft and volume.

 

Floyd had hand problems so it’s easy to understand why he changed his style to put less strain on his hands. After seeing the beating Fury put on Wilder, I can’t imagine any fair minded fight fan calling him feather fisted. Loma is fighting guys two classes bigger. Against guys his own size, he knocks them out or gets them to quit. Not feather fisted by any stretch.

Paulie was feather fisted. Caleb Plant is feather fisted, Ward in his prime was feather fisted, unless you count the illegal shots below the belt. Either way, there are lots of great boxers who didn’t have huge one punch power and lots of bad ones who could knock guys out with one punch. Wilder is an example of the latter.

 

You need to up your comprehension skills. I said bottom 10% relative to other champions/elites at WW, not bottom 10% at WW. If you take 10 random elites at WW, I’d be willing to bet that Floyd falls at the bottom of that stack.

It doesn’t take much power to keep someone off them with clear sharpshooting punches. Nobody likes to get hit clean.

and those fighters aren’t really head-first eat one to land one type of guys, at their core, the core, they’re counterpunchers. Guys like Margarito would have walked through his punches, but he does so with everyone, just made that way.

Floyd is suppose to have the best counterpunching skills and best sharpshooter. You can’t have both. You can’t have the best sharpshooting counterpunching skills yet not be able to knock anyone down legitimately at WW despite all those perfectly timed clean landed punches.

it’s like a saying you’re a rifle sharpshooter that never misses with a powerful gun and bullets but has never killed anyone. Can’t have both. You’re either missing with your rifle or you’re using rubber bullets, if you had both (accuracy and power), you would have killed someone when you were landing.

 

Slappy Joe for my money wins this hands down

 

Willy pep

 

Usually the talent pool is higher at lower divisions especially in the (10~50) those are hardened contenders with no where to go, matchmakers do everything to avoid them, the Top 10 are usually "big names" from smaller divisions passing by and fighting fellow blown-up big names. If Pacman went ahead and fought Ricardo Lopez in the 1990s, very good chance we would have never heard of him again, but he moved up vs the slower opponents and did much better...

Lets be honest, Can Pacman beat Jeff Lacy? or Kelvin Davis? not certain, but its still easier to pick him over Jeff Lacy than Ricardo Lopez

Malinaggi will be the sure underdog vs Eric Morales, Pacman or Junior Jones at 122, he didn't have the style to fight those fast powerful punchers, they will easily catch him and do serious damage to him. It was easier to win a belt and get paid fighting the slower 140-147 guys, simple as that, the path of least resistance.

 

You’re wrong. 135, 147, and 160 are generally the deepest due to the high numbers of active boxers.

Lopez stayed low because he would’ve been torn apart at higher weights. Malignaggi fought where he was comfortable making weight and where he could get paid.

The guy wasn’t a featherweight.

 

Herol Graham.
Relied heavily on defence and countering, from memory. Was relatively successful too.

 

Paulie M

 

Average divisions, a big % of the top boxers are boxers that moved up to feast on slower boxers...the Natural contenders-journeymen are blacklisted until they accept to take fights at higher divisions vs "prospects".

Ricardo Lopez never had a problem making weight, he weighed in at 103lbs in some fights, which made him very sharp and high stamina vs opponents who had to cut weight.

Ricardo Lopez would have been the most powerful opponent Manny Pacquiao ever faced, JMM accuracy and a higher speed-output.

 

Willie Pep

 

Nonsense. If Pac could’ve made weight comfortably and after developing just part of his skill set, he would’ve demolished Lopez.

Tiny guys are skilled as a function of their size. The rise to the top of the division is shallow and easy in comparison to the bigger weight classes though.

If you ever box, you’ll quickly figure out how much weight matters.

 

If we are saying that "feather-fist" or "pillow-fisted" is the opposite of being "heavy-handed" then regardless of his changed technique after his hand issues, Calzaghe is noted by many boxers he has face as being pretty heavy handed - especially before his well-documented hand problems, but even after he adapted to his hand issues.

Changing technique and style to volume punching does not really get the gist of what I think OP is getting at.

More a case where the fighter simply has a lack of pop regardless of how much they sit down on their punches - and that fits Paulie to a tee. I think Tim Bradley is another good shout there.

 

Fury gets underrated. When he wants to sit down on his shots he can crack.