Who exactly is this "Perfect Boxer"????

IMO it actually says a lot of good about your morał compass, as what I believe deep down is that it's inherently wrong to inflict real, potentially cripling, even lethal damage on a guy that did nothing wrong to you.

I had a similar experience when I started training kickboxing as a 12 year old. It never got to sparing, but the intensity of trainings was such that it somehow felt wrong to me. In hindsight, I think I just felt what it actually was - preparing us for a real fight, real war with each other, not a game or a sport really. I quit and never looked back, but kept watching combat sports.

These days to me following boxing is a lot like a drug that I've been trying to quit. Had some success lately switched to watching NBA, but what Usyk's done lured me back in a bit. I'm not going to stay for long though.

 

I am going to start by saying this is not the answer anyone was looking for but you might still find it interesting to some degree.

Apollo is the personification of boxing, or rather Pykes, the aspect of Apollo that personifies boxing.

The idea is when you box you honor Apollo and as you show new forms you are showing the blessings of Apollo. Success = Apollo likes you. Failure = Apollo doesn't like you as much as the other guy.

Apollo is the perfect boxer.


You might think ancient boxing has nothing to do with current boxing but you ever wonder why other sports take such great pains to stop or catch cheating that boxing just never showed an interest in? When your origin is a culture that regarded being caught as what was wrong, not the act in the first place, it makes more sense the culture of the sport would oppose things like refs on the outside to catch angle the inside man can't or instant replay.

The perfect boxer is an idea. Anyone can be the perfect boxer, but anyone who is, is surely Apollo in the guise of a mortal.


of course I don't actually believe it myself, I don't actually believe in the Grimm Reaper either, but when I think of death personified it is always Grimmster and if you ask me who is the perfect boxer I an only think of Apollo, boxing personified. .... That's why Stallone named Creed Apollo bros.





One last note. If you're a wee bit upset to find Ares is not the god of boxing and like the war monger over the pretty boy, the allegory you're missing is war is ugly. Boxing is, was, always has been, a very dirty sport, but it was always a beautiful art as well. Ares is too ugly to be the god of boxing. Of at least the ****ers what made them up thought so.

 

There's no such thing as the "perfect" boxer. Two of the 3 Sugar Rays (no not Ray Seales), Duran, Hagler or Mccallum would probably be as close as you can get.

There are a number of complete boxers throughout history however. There's even a number of complete boxers currently competing..........but not perfect.

 

He did but it was from overwhelming them with punches. I don’t think it’s up to debate if Loma has 1 punch KO power or not…

 

Bud is one who else?

 

Inoue is another

 

And there is one more, can you guess?

 

Prime peak SRR had it all

Speed, power in both hands, stamina, height , reach, an iron chin, and an incredible will to win.

He really only lost when he was older and out of his natural weight division.

 

Duran?

 

Crawford is the most complete boxer today.

Sugar Ray Leonard is in history

 

The way I wrote it sounds more than stupid and funny.
I saw some video on YouTube where SRR is called the perfect boxer.
I'm too lazy to search specifically for that video right now.

 

Robinson might be the best ever, no real flaws. He still wasn't perfect, he still dropped rounds when he was undefeated. By definition, he wasn't perfect.

 

Golovkin could have ticked most of those boxes but was shamelessly ducked by his division.

Regardless of how good you thought he actually was the fact was the division did everything they could to not find out.

 

Nobody.