Worst footwork

I've previously acknowledged Foreman's footwork, and that of Qawi, with respect to their efficiency in cutting off the ring, so I certainly don't subscribe to the view that footspeed necessarily equates to good footwork.

As you're well aware, I have tremendous respect for your opinions on such matters. Pryor's footwork wasn't the best; far from it. But I don't consider him to be a candidate for this particular honor.

Jack Bodell was mentioned by mcvey, and even in his winning effort against Bugner, his footwork looked stilted and awkward. It appeared as if all he could do was walk forward and to his right, depriving himself of the usual southpaw advantage in counterclockwise mobility. Bodell is a very astute and thoughful answer.

Bodell's example brings to my mind the name of Bob Foster. When he defended his title against Mike Quarry, Jack Palance's very first comment concerned the way he planted his right foot to generate maximum power on his shots, depriving him of the ability to move backwards or circle to his left gracefully. This sacrifice of mobility for power cost him dearly in heavyweight competition.

Some might mention Kenny Norton.

 

Razor Ruddock broke alot of rules with his footwork. Crossed his feet alot, very awkward with his footwork. Still was very effective with it, as he knocked alot of guys out. His style didn't fly against Tyson Lewis, or even Morrison though.

 

Khaosai Galaxy comes to mind, although I wouldn't say the worst.

 

Very good pick. It was his fatal flaw; Trinidad with good footwork would be VERY scary indeed.

 

I was going to say Jack, he was very good though at standing on other peoples feet.

 

Marciano always had calls for bad footwork, the reporters of the day got footspeed confuse with footwork. Marciano was no Dempsey in regards to footSPEED, and thus Dempsey had better footwork than Marciano.
Marciano's footwork was good for the style he used. Just hammering them down, and grinding them out. Outside of Walcott or Moore no one relly deck Marciano because of poor footwork. Walcott had a banging shot that drop Marciano. Sure Marciano trip here or there, but when it counted, Marciano didnt lose because of footwork. It help keep the speedy boxers from getting away from him. And thats all he needed his footwork for. Marciano knew what he was doing.

 

Felix Trinidad definitely
Ray Mercer's footowork against Larry Holmes was pretty bad.
Jose Luis Ramirez footowork also wasn't that good.

 

Trinidad, Pavlik, Margarito.

 

Depends on what the FOOTWORK is used for..

Some used it for punching power..

Some use it for evasiveness..

Some use it for picking up points..

Some use it to prolong the rounds...

As long as it suits the fighter.. and its effictive for them, who cares???

 

Tom Johnson after Hamed starting landing on him.

 

Thats a left hook happy obsession of Tito's rather than a footwork, to get leverage on a left hook you pivot on the right

 

................Having said that..... Zab looked a 'lil average after Tszyu's right....

 

I dont htink Alexis had bad footwork i felt he used his height with his footwork brillaintly and was never off balance.

Tito had his back foot on his heel but this contributed to his huge punching power so i wouldnt say it ws bad but he was caugt of balance with it though.

I would actually say Hamed. It was effective but it was terrible he would square up and lunge in. and spent more time with his feet lunging through the air than on the ground. this led to afew KD's

However IMO all top boxers have decent footwork there nnone with terrible as footwork is one of the most importanat aspcts of boxing

 

so I glean from this thread that power punchers typically have bad footwork... brilliant.