What kind of fighter do you like?

my personal favorites would be fighters who use technique to set up their punches and not just swing their fists.

 

Froch was always my favourite to watch, always put on a decent show (except against Ward).

 

Slick, Quick Handed Boxer Puncher

 

I don't care much about personalities outside the ring, it's what they do in the ring that makes me like the fighter. Personally I like boxer punchers, fighters who have a high ring IQ and could turn off your lights at any moment.

 

I personally prefer slicksters and great defensive boxers over KO artists. Boxing is the only sport where defence can be as equally fan friendly as offence imo. It was watching Mayweather masterfully bait, counter and matrix everything coming his way that got me into boxing. Hell, most people have seen more clips of Ali dodging punches than they've seen of him throwing punches, and they love him regardless.

I just find it more impressive. Any idiot can throw a punch, but not anyone can dodge them. Not to say I don't enjoy KO's, but I've watched more footage of Mayweather, Whittaker and Loche than I have Foreman's and Tyson's.

Inside fighters are the exception to this, I appreciate that and enjoy watching it very much so, but they're not many ATG inside fighters in modern boxing.

 

The problem is not the defense bit, the problem is a guy who is always safety first & doesn't even try for the KO even when the other guy is leagues below him or obviously ready to go like Zepeda was

Dodge punches all round, land 1 or 2 clean solid punches, clinch up when remotely in a bad position until ref separates you, win that round, rinse & repeat for 12 rounds to a comfortable UD. If every fighter adopted this approach I guarantee that the only one's buying PPV's will be the 1000 or so Boxing purists & the only one's showing up in the stadium will be the 100 or so purists (unless 1 of the guys is intensely hated & the other is loved & people tune in to see the hated safety first guy lose)

My 2nd most favorite Boxing bout after Duran vs Leonard 1 is Toney vs McCallum 1 where you have the highest levels of technical ability + intense back & forth action

 

I get a bit like that... when the basics of trying to score and/or hurt the other bloke without him hurting you goes out the window, it feels like you're being sold a fraud of a fighter who doesn't even know the absolute basics.

I don't appreciate **** poor fundamentals, ducking worthwhile fights or stacking the deck... these are generally the calling cards of hypejobs and frauds, such fighters are very rarely able to prove themselves worth anywhere near as much as many so-called fans will claim.

Get the basics right - hit and avoid getting hit too much, and anything interesting on top is great...

 

Type- Thomas Hearns.....

 

Fair enough. There's no question that they're not the backbone of the sport, and the sport as a whole would suffer of they were. Klitschko wasn't exactly box office, and Mayweather didn't sell well because of his style in the ring.

 

Mayweather in his PBF days was a far more exciting fighter who used to throw beautiful combinations, if he had kept that up in his Money days then he would have sold due to excitement. A lot of people tuned in just to see him lose in his Money days

His fans say the change was due to hand issues, may be partly but I think mentally as well he became safety first & doing the minimum needed to win the fight

 

Mate. Love this. Beterbiev is one of my favourite boxers to watch atm. Frazier got me into boxing. Still haven't seen anyone be such a warrior in the ring. The guy was and still is the epitome of boxing for me. Put it all in the ring!!!!!!!!!

 

Boxer-puncher

 

The Joe Louis type of fighter.

 

I only like ferocious fighters

 

Fighters like Usyk and Lomachenko, pressing fighters who posses great defense. Duran was the same mold.