don't blast me for this list: 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Willie Pep 3. Roberto Duran 4. Floyd Mayweather 5. Mike McCallum 6. Gene Tunney 7. James Toney 8. Sugar Ray Leonard 9. Bernard Hopkins 10. Ezzard Charles
don't know the answer, but I do know it's not Ali, not be a long shot as he was fundamentally flawed in a number of areas, and like RJJ depended on his speed and athletic abilities to overcome those flaws. Might find away to get Whitaker, Louis, and SRR on that list though.
Pfffft! Who knows really? I mean the ten most talented technicians with all the technicians there have been in different eras? I love lists but even i'm not sure you can make this list mean anything. Nevertheless ten names you haven't considered that you might: Harold Johnson Joe Louis Roman Gonzalez Ray Robinson Alexis Arguello Luis Manuel Rodriguez Manuel Ortiz Wilfredo Gomez Michael Spinks Marvin Hagler
i forgot about joe louis but i think both pre and post exile ali would box planets around him with ease, another good HW technician i forgot about was lennox lewis
Hw- Charles, Walcott or Corbett LHW - Harold Johnson Mw- Toney. McCallum and Gibbons are there as well. Ww- Barney Ross or Jack Britton Lw- Gans or Leonard Fw- Pep Bw- Canizales Flw- Ricardo Lopez (heheh) Pick 8, add Whitaker. Then add a pressure fighter (Duran, Chavez, Chang,) for diversity.
Duran , Witherspoon , McCallum , Sanderline Williams , Orlin Norris , Juan LaPorte (who beat him aside from Gomez when probably drained?) . List can be completed out of ze below: Byrd stays out due 2 being unaware offensively as was shown l8 in his career. But he was a skilled technician. Whitaker fared even better in his career, but he was not tested in extreme disadvantages like Byrd was. Mauricio Herera and Darnell Boone will forever remain under8ed in zis department. Marion Wilson , Montell Griffin , Tony Thornton , James Toney , Marvin Hagler , Muhammad Qawi , Vince Phillips , Frankie Randall , Shane Mosley and Hector Camacho all deserve consideration if not inclusion.
Unanswerable with any authority. How skilled were Mike Gibbons Packey McFarland,Young Griffo ,Abe Attell,Charley Weinert, Jim Driscoll,Jimmy Slattery,Bert Lytell,HolmanWilliams,Dave Shade,Charley Burley,Fidel Labarba,Frankie Genaro,Midget Wolgast,Sammy Mandell?
like people said, there is no definitive list, i tried to get 10 guys whose skills kept them at a high level after the body was declined, or whose skills made them competitive at higher weights. whitaker, duran, rigo, floyd, mcallum, pep, hopkins, charles, moore, i'd like to make burley the 10th, but there isn't enough film of him, a few other guys left out for lack of film too. langford would deserve his place. could put kalambay in, but that is not quite in line with the criteria, and im not sure he's better than guys like pastrano, rodriguez, lopez ect.