Who has the Best Inside game in the business?

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  1. SweetSciGuru

    SweetSciGuru Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Clinching for better punching position is the essence of inside fighting. Head to chest throwing short crisp hooks, uppercuts, and straight combinations.

    I'm not talking about holding and dancing to take a breather, or English style holding and hitting behind the head or below the belt.
    I mean seriously sweet inside beat downs with heads bouncing up from inside uppercuts.

    Who is the best? :deal
     
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  2. zicas

    zicas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pacquiao has no inside game :lol:

    From your list: Ward and Mayweather
     
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  3. Collie

    Collie Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Rios deserves an HM
     
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  4. Heelmike

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    Prob ward also manny doesn't have a good inside game whatsoever . And don't out rios on there if anything put provodnikov
     
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  5. ant-man

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    Obviously God's boy. :bbb
     
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  6. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Toney before he was shot.

    But now I'd say Ward he's got the skills and the physicality to impose himself on the inside. Reminds me of a young Hopkins on the inside, just like with Hopkins, it isn't pretty and isn't always legal but it's effective.
     
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  7. SweetSciGuru

    SweetSciGuru Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'd say it's a toss up between BHOP and Ward but since he's 50 Hopkins gets overlooked in the props department.
    Watching BHOP slide across the ropes and deliver clean counters as his oppnent attempts to capitalise while his back is against the ropes is a thing of beauty. I think he actually throws and lands more inside punches against the ropes than Ward does, but Wards have more snap like the uppercuts he threw against Dawson while on the ropes.
     
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  8. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    Andre
     
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  9. SweetSciGuru

    SweetSciGuru Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Toney, definitely.
    The Jirov fight is a classic text book on inside fighting. But I didn't include old timers or I would have included Lennox, Pernell and Bowe.
     
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  10. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I like Bernard's fighting and feinting at mid range and getting first with withering right counters but I know that what wins fights for him is tucking his head inside his shoulders and against his opponent's, slippin all ova his opponent's body and connecting to the sides and uppercutting inside, sometimes grab one arm to discharge in the other side. Ward clinch and inside game is smart and he is fast and accurate enough to land left hooks as he lets go or steps in but not quite with the same ferocity as Bernard used to in his early days with fights against Mercado.
     
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  11. HamburgBuam

    HamburgBuam Boxing Addict Full Member

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  12. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Floyd hands down.
     
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  13. cslb

    cslb Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ward and it isn't even close.
     
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  14. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    Why in the hell is Pac on this list? He has zero inside game. On that list Ward Hopkins and PBF all have great inside fighting game.
     
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  15. SweetSciGuru

    SweetSciGuru Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :lol:
    I expected to get one of these which is why included Floyd on the list.
    In reality Floyd doesn't like fighting inside where he can get a head butt, an elbow or a low blow.
    You only see him do it for brief periods before he flurries and spins off of the ropes or out of the clinch.
     
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