Fighters who didn't have one amazing attribute but who were unbelievably well balanced. Usually these fighters are nightmares in a H2H sense because of how well balanced and multi-faceted they are. Larry Holmes always struck me as maybe the most well balanced HW champion, and if not number one in the absolute elite. Even the likes of Ali had rather large holes in their game... Ali couldn't chase a guy down/be the aggressor for the life of him as Jimmy Young showed.
Hopkins definitely, these guys are normally the ones who are described as 'technically profficient', JMM but for e he's not nearly as effective as Hopkins as he lets shots in on him, hence the great wars you see him in and not Hopkins.
Hopkins is a pretty good text book fighter. Can we say Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson? They had pretty good text book styles too.
Whilst you are right i think the thread starter wasnt looking for someone who was so obvioulsy amazing at what they did. He looked something elseat times Napoles.
I'd say he was quite subtle with his skills and general style. A first timer watching him would likely struggle to see what the fuss was about. On the topic of Napoles, how about Rodolfo "El Gato" Gonzalez? Very similar to Napoles from a styles standpoint. [YT]tZsYcJ2HRq4[/YT]
OMG! look at the similarities in techniques he and Napoles employed! Its like when i first viewed my first few minutes of Zapata and thoght of you know who!
I misread the meaning of the original question here, thinking the topic was 'well balanced' as in footwork, ring movement etc. On that basis was going with Roy Jones Jnr who moved so well & lightningly fast into all knids of angles with brilliantly balanced footwork & body movement. To me they were his major standout skills...wasn't a bad allrounder in the sense of the real context of this thread either.
