The best fighter who did the least training.

Wilfredo Benitez

 

Australian featherweight YOUNG GRIFFO (born Albert Griffiths) is almost impossible to top in this category.

Between 1886 & 1904 the broad shouldered, thickly set Griffo put together 77 wins, 9 losses & 46 draws, and usually when to some degree drunk.

Griffo fought and beat some of the greatest lightweights and featherweights of his time, often with a preparation built around drunken binges in hotels. It was not unheard of for Griffo to be found at a bar drinking on the day of his fight, only to be dragged to the venue just in time for his bout, and win!!

Booze shortened Griffo’s life (he only lived to his mid 50's), but it seems to have failed to impede to any great degree his boxing prowess.

Nat Fleischer, founder of The Ring magazine, wrote of Griffo:
“He never was one to take his professional career seriously. Training was a nuisance to him and he preferred hanging around bar-rooms and guzzling his liquour. Seldom indeed was Griffo sober for a fight, yet so amazingly clever was he that regardless of his physical and mental condition at the moment, he invariably held his own or could and did whip his opponent.”

 

Id say Mike Tyson in his third career. He basically ran on a treadmill for the Golota fight, and did nothing for the Savarese fight either, but keep his weight in check

 

Benitez & Toney come to mind.

 

Monzon would be another one...but as COULDABEEN said Griffo was notorious for just rocking up after heavy training sessions in the bar.

 

Didnt do much roadwork from what Ive read, heavy smoker and I think drinker during his training.

Could be intense and frankly a bit of a **** in the gym..like he would get a lot out of his sessions when he was in the zone.
Or he could train for a little bit then go around the gym just to chat to whoever was there instead of training.

Pretty much the the quintessential 15 round fighter but he was no gym rat from all reports.

 

As soon as I read the title Benitez' name popped into my head...

 

Lew Jenkins, a 24/7 drunk scarecrow that roared into Stillman's Gym on his motorcycle and flattened all-comers sparring 'n high-tailed it for the nearest gin mill.

 

Ruben Olivarez would go on drinking binges rather than train and then destroy opponents. JC Chavez would in some cases only train lightly before a fight.

 

Toney sparred a lot of rounds for fights by most standards.