Your favorite style of boxing (&boxer)

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  1. HellSpawn86

    HellSpawn86 "My heart goes out to you!" Full Member

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    What's your overall favorite style of boxing, why, and give and example of a fighter who fights like this.

    Mine's swarmer (JCC), I liked this style because it was an endurance fight, a chess match, and a battle of wills and intellect depending on opponent across the ring.
     
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  2. pauliemayweathe

    pauliemayweathe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I like slick fighters who can negate a a swarmer....malignaggi and PBF....guys that need to be in good shape and sharp to hold guys off for 12 rds...but a good war is always cool with me
     
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  3. sues2nd

    sues2nd Fading into Bolivian... Full Member

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    Three favorites ever...

    1- Whitaker
    2- Hopkins
    3- Jones

    I would say defensive fits the bill (tho I would argue more cerebral)...LOL!

    Honestly tho, I can enjoy and appreciate just about any style...especially when its done in a masterful sense. Like watching Tyson's ferocity...or Hagler switch from wonderful boxer to fierce brawler whenever the time called for it (I hate when people mistake Marvin for a brawler who could box...when in reality, he was exactly the opposite...a boxer who could brawl)...or Leonard's ability to put his punches together in ways that just seemed impossible...or Hopkins way of laying traps for his opponents...or...you get my point.
     
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  4. Riveraboxing

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    Boxer/Punchers and Counterpunchers

    Erik Morales
     
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  5. Marnoff

    Marnoff Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I voted Defensive, but it's more to the point that I prefer alert, thinking fighters. Hopkins is my all-time favourite. I also love to watch veterans in the ring like Jersey Joe Walcott and Archie Moore doing their thing. Mayweather is another favourite to watch.

    That said, I love watching action fights as well. Hard to strictly categorize it.
     
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  6. venomus_p4p

    venomus_p4p Guest

    Power Boxer= Mosley
     
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  7. rccwilliams

    rccwilliams Sippin' on some sizzurp Full Member

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    Out of what you listed, Boxer-puncher, overall though, unorthodox, like Jones.
     
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  8. J.R.

    J.R. No Mames Guey Full Member

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    1) Hard-hitting aggressive fighters... Juan Diaz has an exciting come forward style, but I've never been a big fan because he doesn't have the pop to truly devastate his opponents.

    2) Highly active counter-punchers with good head movement. Ex: Emanuel Augustus & James Toney.
     
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  9. popejking

    popejking Adamek Full Member

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    I prefer offensive, because its the most entertaining style. I like fighters who make the pressure and move ahead.

    Examples: David Tua, Tomasz Adamek, early Mike Tyson
     
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  10. andyZOR

    andyZOR Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Boxer/puncher

    Tomasz Adamek, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk

    Than others like Lennox Lewis..
     
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  11. DeanoFlash

    DeanoFlash Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It depends. I love all fighters who master there particular niche or style of boxing.
     
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  12. Club Fighter

    Club Fighter Boxing Addict banned

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    A Technician . . . Arguello, Mayweather, Whitaker, Toney, young ODLH, Dawson, Tyson (yes, Tyson was a technician)

    Then a Brawler . . . Hagler, Gatti, Chavez, Corrales, Trinidad (although he is not one of my favorite fighters)


    My least favorite style of "boxing": Jab-n-grab . . . Ruiz, W. Klitschko, Ward
     
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  13. Poirot

    Poirot Active Member Full Member

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    Defensive fighters like Winky and Pernel Whittaker - I like.

    I'm starting to like Marquez - it is very different and unique the way he fights. Not sure about the technical side, but he just looks different to the "norm".
     
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  14. LeonardLeroy

    LeonardLeroy Active Member Full Member

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    I dunno man, Marquez is the epitome of the "norm", the textbook. He's a bigger Ricardo Lopez. And coincidentally, I love Juan Manuel Marquez, as the explosive boxer-puncher in present form. My favorite kind of boxer.
     
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  15. Grievesy

    Grievesy Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Boxer/Punchers mostly or aggressive or more active counterpunchers like JMM and Toney (when he wanted to).
     
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