Who are the Top10 defensive masters?

What do you mean by non-modern? Are fighters from the 70's still to be classed modern?

 

In no order
Driscoll
Pep
Loi
B Leonard
Loughran
Johnson
Canto
Tunney
Gans
Attell
a mention for Young Griffo?

 

Jack Johnson............ number 1

 

Rocky Marciano should get a yell. That video I saw of the Rock, I felt like I was watching Willie Pep.

 

Locche

 

Pep
Duran
Marciano

 

Not including Benitez (whose prime was probably late 70's), I'd say (in no order) :


Nicolino Locche
Young Griffo
Tommy Loughran
Miguel Canto
Willie Pep
Mike Gibbons
Maxie Rosenbloom
Charley Burley
Jim Driscoll
Gene Tunney


Just missing out:


Muhammad Ali
Roberto Duran
Billy Graham
Joe Gans
Tommy Ryan
Abe Attell
Ken Buchanan
Jack Johnson
Archie Moore
Duilio Loi
Jack O’Brien

 

what about locche

 

Marciano? C'mon guys.

 

If we take the video that ChrisPontius posted it's clear that some (including me) had overlooked the finer, more subtle amnd surprisingly cunning aspects of Marcianos style defensively speaking.

Despite that, however I think it'd be a tough call to rate him top 10 ever in that regard. Pep, Johnson nad Burley would be my Top 3. The likes of Duran, Tunney and Young Griffo all rank highly too.

 

Pretty much. Marciano had a better defense than he's given credit for, but to make any top 10 all-time list, you'd have to be a defensive wizard, which clearly The Rock was not.

 

In the next 10 with Harold Johnson