What's the hardest style to overcome overall?

I think that's dangerous. At 6 6 6 5 Fundora will never have great physical strength nor musculature to absorb punishment, particularly to his head or body. Attributes make up styles, so he should really be an out-fighter, but I haven't seem him fight yet.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson?

 

Floyd Mayweather is the only boxer who goes by that.

 

Tall long armed fighters that know how to use their height and reach

 

I’d generally take the attribute of superior hand speed over any particular style. That’s maybe the hardest obstacle to overcome for most.

 

Boxer/Puncher makes sense. The other one that fighters must dread is an on form switch hitting, hard punching elusive style. Punches coming in from everywhere you don’t expect must be a nightmare. More so if there’s a good chance of getting badly hurt if one gets through. A young Naz Hamed must of been an absolute nightmare opponent.

 

Spoilers. If you're not good enough, you'll lose in the most frustrating, fruitless and embarrassing fashion. If you are good enough, you'll still seem somewhat out of depth and look inept at times. It is very hard to find even an ATG who was 'good' against spoilers, much less 'destructive'. Even Roberto Duran had his struggles with them. They lead to performances which some could use as unjustified criticism towards a fighters style of Boxing due to their showing. They will nearly always lower your stock, even if you win.

Example: Jofre vs Miranda I, II and III. Though a win (and draws), Eder was made to look 'bad' by the negative Miranda.

 

Old Hopkins, Ward.

 

At an ATG / very good level I find it hard to list 'pure' spoilers (I'm sure there are a few, but I cannot think at the moment), but I would say many fighters had spoiler attributes and could really turn it on when needed. Guys such as Griffith, Hopkins, Mamby, Angott, Young and Giardello are some names who could makes things dreadfully awkward for their opposition and really slow things down with mauling, pot shotting and veteran tactics.

Below that level, I think obvious examples would be John Ruiz and Johnny Nelson.

 

I don’t think boxer-puncher is a style, per se, either. Because you can’t say ‘my style is puncher, I want to learn to box in a way that I can knock people out with one shot.’ You can’t.

I don’t think there is any style that is universally better against all other styles.