Who are the Textbook boxers?

the guy is briliant and knows the game inside out. check out his tutorials in the ring magazine every month; he's a hell of a teacher and teaches a new punch or technique every month. might surprise you

 

Shout out to Rafa Marquez as well.

 

Offensively I agree wholeheartedly, but defensively he is too much of a liability IMO.

 

Abbas, yaar! I've been loving the vids on your youtube channel.

Now the best 'textbook' boxers or 'pure boxers' for technique, imo are as follows:

(no order)


More Recent Boxers:

> JMM
> B-Hop
> Kessler
> Calderon
> Rafa Marquez
> Jorge Linares looks pretty solid.
> the reinvented Barrera

> Vernon Forrest [to a certain extent] (esp. jab, right-hand -- beautifully simple yet clinically effective execution).

> Winky!! (The fact that a guy with such a lack of apparent knockout power was for a long time the most feared man in boxing should speak volumes.. and this is not a hellish pressure fighter like Margarito -- the other long-time most feared man -- but rather a defensive, slickster with a beautiful jab & the ability to create some beautiful angles!)

> I always felt MORALES was underrated... he was the most versatile of the recent mexican trio of great warriors... and really could sustain a well-rounded attack. (i guess what I'm saying is, just because you can also bang.. doesn't mean you are by proxy a shitty pure boxer)

From the past.. there are loads... many will be better educated than I in terms of old boxers. However, some names that deffo very quickly off the top of my head that MUST be mentioned are ['pure boxers' -- neither willie pep nor sweetpea were 'textbook']:

-Sweetpea
-Finito LOPEZ!!!!!! (Marquez is a lot like him in many respects)
-Willie Pep
-Archie Moore
-SRR??


Also, most of the best 'textbook boxers' don't actually have GREAT defense!!
There is also a distinct difference between being a 'textbook' boxer & a 'pure boxer'. Sweetpea didn't have a textbook style... though he had great technique... while a great PURE boxer.. let's face it, that wasn't textbook!

Great defense is another skillset imo ...which we should take as separate from boxing technique (even if that consideration is very offense/technique-centric)

 

ricardo lopez is the second most techincally gifted boxer i've ever seen, behind robinson. not the best, but technically he did EVERYTHING brilliantly

 

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so if you have Finito Lopez behind SRR as the best technically? what would the rest of your t5 be.


I always hear sweetpea1, willie pep 2nd.

iduno, sweetpea was ofcourse breathtakingly good.. however, sometimes, it DOES seem to me that Pernell does get a little too much love which makes objectivity fall to pieces in a discussion whereby anyone not named sweetpea must be inferior to him, technically.

Again, though.. i've always viewed the GREAT defenses a being distinctly separate abilities and of a diff. skillset (equally important but definitely separate!).

 

also, as I haven't seen more than 5 SRR fights... i just felt a little uneasy about jumping the gun and calling him a pure boxer only to get slapped with something I haven't seen before!

y'all can open up that can of worms, though... will be good to read

 

cotto is a very basic textbook boxer, always has been....PBF is a masterclass as is BHOP JMM and Wlad...pavlik and JT both are very basic texbook guys as well

 

Hopkins.

He's a walking textbook. I mean you talk about chin tucked at all times. Having his feet in proper position at all times and never being off balanced, that's Hopkins.

 

Vinny maddalone

 

Kessler and Luevano are as textbook as they come.

I don't completely agree on Hopkins. He's textbook in some respects, but he has his unorthodox bits as well.

 

yes sorry i was thinking of "pure boxers"

which they were.. esp Sweetpea.


Not text-book, though! better make that clear in the post.

it's problematic due to semantics.