Your favorite "non talented" fighters?

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  1. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Fighters you thought didn't have too much gifts yet you still love and watch them.
    I have a good list.
    Greg Haugen (good fundamentals,swarming and counterpunching)

    Buddy McGirt (had some talent in that left hand but not much more other than skills)

    Winky Wright (good jab and guard)

    Bernard Hopkins (good fundamentals and ring generalship)

    Tony Pellone (few footages but very tough and can spoil)

    Alberto Davila (good fundamentals and exciting to watch)

    Daniel Zaragoza (tough,endless stamina)

    Alberto Jimenez (can bang with anyone, underrated switch hitter)

    Myung Woo Yuh (great infighter,would make a great fight with Carbajal)

    Carmen Basilio (rugged,great infighter that was very brave and tough,banging with bigger guys)

    Bobo Olson (great infighter, inspiration for Basilio)

    This could go much further but that's all,might add Eddie Perkins when I'm done watching him,what about y'all?

    Edit:I'll add in Chucho Castillo and Jimmy Carter.
     
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  2. Mastrangelo

    Mastrangelo Active Member Full Member

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    Man I wish I was as non-talented as some of those guys...
     
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  3. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Least talented boxers are mythical fighters in an untrained person's eye lol,I can feel that.

    I wish I was granted the skills of Chucho and the left hook of McGirt.
     
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  4. Ike

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    Javier Castillejo and Glen Johnson. They didn't have a great talent but they were two real warriors always with a suitcase in hand and both have the world title (Castillejo in two weight divisions).
     
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  5. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    Emanuel Augustus & Micky Ward
     
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  6. Wladimir

    Wladimir Active Member Full Member

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    Alfred Ankamah
    Mario Iribarren
    Alberto Jimenez
    Joseph Kiwanuka
    Tokunbo Olajide
    Eric Griffin
    Sergey Kobozev
    Sergey Artemiev
    Kid Akeem Anifowoshe
    Carlos "Bolillo" Gonzalez
    Julian Letterlough
    Alfred Kotey
    Rafael Del Valle
    Silence Mabuza
    And another
     
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  7. GlaukosTheHammer

    GlaukosTheHammer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Josesito Lopez
     
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  8. bolo specialist

    bolo specialist Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Going out on a limb, I'd say Basilio may have gone the farthest of any fighter w/ the least amount of pure athletic talent.
     
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  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    James Toney
    Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
    Muhammad Ali
    Rocky Marciano
     
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  10. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Are we talking about not having athleticism ?

    Talent is not only that, it´s like the NBA discussions around certain european players... I am fairly athletic but no matter how much I train I won´t be as great as Luka Doncic.

    Now, was James Toney talented ? In which way ?
    A guy like Toney had instinctive fighting skills.. he probably was wired to have quick thinking in improv... because that´s the thing with Boxing, it is all improv in the spur of the moment !
    We can´t really know if Greg Haugen was not talented in that way...
     
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  11. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Athletic gifts,yeah.
     
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  12. GlaukosTheHammer

    GlaukosTheHammer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    **** ... Does Chris Eubank count?
     
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  13. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Myung Woo Yuh struck me as a better Troy Dorsey but he like Dorsey was not a good infighter he’s a guy who fought there a lot but not someone to replicate… just my 0.2$
     
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  14. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Unlike Samuel Peter they had to work themselves to death to get to the heights of boxing.
     
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  15. Marvelous_Iron

    Marvelous_Iron Active Member Full Member

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    Peter McNeeley, fighting Tyson was all balls and his record is actually decent, of course Tyson was miles above the rest of his resume, it's like you knew Tyson was going to destroy him but couldn't help but root for him
     
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