Underrated Offense

Michael Moorer

 

Pernell Whitaker
Miguel Canto
Sumbu Kalambay
Marlon Starling
Miguel Lora
Guillermo Rigondeaux (when he decides to let his hands go)

 

Agree, especially with Whitaker and Rigondeaux. Whitaker didn't get a lot of KOs, but always hit his opponents hard enough to keep them honest. Anyone who thought he was going to walk through a feather fisted boxer was mistaken. Fighters with great chins like Nelson and Chavez certainly knew they were being hit.

Numerous other good examples above. Don't know about Sugar Ray Leonard though. He did have a reputation early in his career for maybe not being a hard puncher. But by the time he was a serious contender and certainly when he was champ, his offense was extremely well regarded.

 

Winky Wright

 

Joshua Clottey

 

And that’s exactly why he’s underrated....that’s the first that comes to mind ....but watch his fights with Antonio Margarito ...Zab Judah ...Diego Corrales ...and Miguel Cotto ...Joshua Clottey could fight

 

Joshua Clottey was a strong ..durable fighter ..with fast hands and a snake like left hook

 

Arturo Gatti

 

Jose Luis Ramirez

 

Dariusz Michalczewski comes to mind. Complete arsenal, one of the snappiest powerjabs in memory, excellent straight as an arrow right hand and poppy hooks and uppercuts. He rarely threw without some bad intentions.

 

Zapata could interweave swarming offense and slick defense together in a way I’ve seen only from his fellow Panamanians (Pedroza, Laguna, Marcel, Duran, etc).

 

Canto. OK, he had no punching power at all, but that didn't mean he had no offense.

Mamby. Not the "all defense" guy he's sometimes thought as.

 

Liston
Pep
Eubank (prior to the Watson outcome) could punch
Holyfield