Who is the best technical boxer of all time?

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  1. Matty lll

    Matty lll Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is it Floyd Mayweather Jr, Charley Burley, Juan Manuel Marquez, Benny Leonard, Willie Pep, Gene Tunney or someone else?

    Who do you think and why?
     
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  2. salty trunks

    salty trunks Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Bobby Czyz. He is a member of MENSA
     
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  3. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Benjamin Brain. British bare knuckle champ. A brainy fighter was he !
     
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  4. Matty lll

    Matty lll Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ring smarts I mean, maybe who is the best technical boxer of all time would be a better question.
     
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  5. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    Duran's the most skilled fighter I've ever seen.
     
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  6. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    czyz is a fine choice.
     
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  7. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Shoji Oguma
     
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  8. timmers612

    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hands down, Alfredo the tomato Evangelista.
     
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  9. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I think Tunney is as good a pick as anyone for someone that made all his moves perfectly or close to it. Low hands though. He'd be my pick off that list I guess.
     
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  10. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Willie Pep
     
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  11. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Pep is fundamentally sound, so yeah i've got no problem with that pick either. I don't know if i'd describe him exactly in the terms the OP meant though, but he'll be the judge of that I guess.

    What I mean is, Pep didn't box all that correctly.
     
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  12. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    Wouldn't technical just mean best technique, not just a strict kind of textbook style?
     
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  13. Mister T

    Mister T Conquer.... Full Member

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    Why no love for Ricardo Lopez?

    Dude did everything by the book.
     
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  14. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Then the answer would automatically become the most successful boxer in the replying poster's eyes, wouldn't it?
     
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  15. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Corbett for the old guys. His technique most of the time came right out of the old manuals.
     
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