"Floating like a Butterfly", Ali is considered by many as one of the most, if not the most graceful fighter ever to step on the ring. Who are your choices?

you have to look at the likes of Sugar Ray Lenord, Arron 'the hawk' Pryor and more recently Floyd Mayweather Jnr

yip both the sugar rays in full flight were a thing of beauty, Im openly biased but Lennox when he was letting his combinations go was nothing short of awesome to watch, the ko of Botha and Tyson were just heavweight poetry.

Tommy hearns whipping in those combinations could be impressive to watch also. (sotry I keep banging on about him but Ive been watching a lot of dvds on tommy lately, I forgot how awesome he was). What an era that was!

Peenell whitaker, floyd mayweather, also nice to watch form a defensive perspective. Ali goes without saying.

I love Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard & Tommy the hitman Hearns, just like yesterday I was cheering them on during their fights, as a kid Ali was the first boxer I ever cheered for....

And I could never forget how the Aaron "the hawk" Pryor demolished one of my favorites Alexis Arguello...

Aaron Pryor......GRACEFUL ?

Not at all.

He was perpetual motion.....& could contort his body, punch off of angles, unlike just about any fighter I've seen.

But "graceful" ?

Nah....saw him off-balance too many times....running into shots....getting floored by DuJuan Johnson, Akio Kameda, Antonio Cervantes.

Graceful fighters.

Jabs, that footage you showed of Orlando Canizales taking apart Kelvin Seabrooks was beautiful.

Willie Pep, from what I have seen. Robinson of course.

Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles
Wilfred Benitez
Ray Robinson
Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor......GRACEFUL ?

Not at all.

He was perpetual motion.....& could contort his body, punch off of angles, unlike just about any fighter I've seen.

But "graceful" ?

Nah....saw him off-balance too many times....running into shots....getting floored by DuJuan Johnson, Akio Kameda, Antonio Cervantes.


as a kid I just saw the hawk fight against one of my favorite Arguello one or two times and it is forever etched in my memory, but its quite long time that I have seen it, to me then up to now its devastingly graceful, how will you rate Aaron performance in this one....

It was an amazing victory for Pryor.....in one of the greatest matches ever.

Pryor showed his versatilty.....storming Arguello early....boxing like a master in the middle...surviving some incredible punches....then storming through again for a classic finish.


An A+ performance, without a doubt.

Actually Tyson 85-91 also may be 95-97 was very graceful fighter: you only look at his fast, exact and extremely entertainment movements; on his tremendous abilities...
To look at fights Muhammad Ali one pleasure. One of the most graceful fighters of all time.
Sugar Ray and Leonard, De La Hoya also always made upon me huge impression.

Oscar looks like a dork when he flurries.
His upper body stiffens & just his arms churn.
He looks like f*ckin' R2D2.

When Hector Camacho first came on the scene....that guy was incredible.
He moved & flurried effortlessly.

roy jones was very graceful with his punches and his movements as he leaped across the ring. i love the way he ko's paz with all those jumping hooks and uppercuts. watching him run all around the ring and beat the **** out of richard hall at the same time was amazing to.

Oscar looks like a dork when he flurries.
His upper body stiffens & just his arms churn.
He looks like f*ckin' R2D2.

When Hector Camacho first came on the scene....that guy was incredible.
He moved & flurried effortlessly.

And this dork dominated Camacho in 12 rounds without problems, let Hector was already 35.
Certainly my opinion and nobody forces you to accept it, but I like style of fight DLH and think, that he shows very entertainment boxing.

I think DLH was pretty graceful when he punched and flurried at lower weights. I agree that now he looks too robotic when he does it. He looked like a little boy slapping at Hop in that fight sometimes.

If to concern grace of a knockout to me here imposes J. J. Walcott. He had very impressing one punch knockouts. It is one of my favourite knockouters.

I think DLH was pretty graceful when he punched and flurried at lower weights. I agree that now he looks too robotic when he does it. He looked like a little boy slapping at Hop in that fight sometimes.
If to take one of earliest professional fights DLH (in small weights) there Oscar operated a little (do not take literally) monotonously, deducing itself it is simple in position of impact left. Later DLH certainly as emphasized on the left hand, but outside of any doubts became more various in a ring.

Losing sight of the topic at hand.

"Graceful"...
I never said Camacho was better than Oscar....but he was definitely, at his best, more fluid than Oscar ever was.

Who beat who is not what we're discussing.

It was an amazing victory for Pryor.....in one of the greatest matches ever.

Pryor showed his versatilty.....storming Arguello early....boxing like a master in the middle...surviving some incredible punches....then storming through again for a classic finish.


An A+ performance, without a doubt.

Thanks, almost like how I remembered it, its was shockingly devasting for me coz I was rooting for Alexis....

Losing sight of the topic at hand.

"Graceful"...
I never said Camacho was better than Oscar....but he was definitely, at his best, more fluid than Oscar ever was.

Who beat who is not what we're discussing.
You have emphasized not on the basic ideas of mine post. It was simply the note, and you at once have decided to remind me of the basic direction this top. Probably even you are right concerning Hector, because I did not see fights Camacho when he was in prime.
Calm down and be not nervous - all ok.:)

up you shut. :)

Ricardo Lopez. His foot work and subtle defensive moves were very fluid.
Hamed could be graceful when he wasnt falling over.

Lexi...

good call..."Finito" was almost flawless.

I have seen clips of EDER JOFRE (& there's lots of text to support this) & the man was a perfect fighting machine.

:)
I really in delight from a manner of conducting fight DLH and I really did not see duels young Hamacho, therefore and did not assert, that young Hector not gracefull boxer.

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I really in delight from a manner of conducting fight DLH and I really did not see duels young Hamacho, therefore and did not assert, that young Hector not gracefull boxer.


listen....


I said Oscar DeLaHoya looks like a dork when he flurries.
I say this....because of what I believe a DORK is.
I then stated Camacho was fluid, which he absolutely was.

YOU pointed out that Oscar beat Camacho.

It is YOU who got off the topic. It's you who seemed to get edgy over what was said.

id never say DLH was graceful, i always thought he was stiff.
Jones was loose and sharp.

Lexi...

good call..."Finito" was almost flawless.

I have seen clips of EDER JOFRE (& there's lots of text to support this) & the man was a perfect fighting machine.

Jofre is up there with Ray Robinson, and that's no exaggeration. He could simply do it all: boxing masterfully, slip and parry with ease, or could brawl with the best of them. There simply was no weakness in his style. In my opinion, Jofre is the most underrappreciated fighter of all-time, mainly due to lack of video footage. Greatest bantamweight ever.

Both of the sugar rays

listen....


I said Oscar DeLaHoya looks like a dork when he flurries.
I say this....because of what I believe a DORK is.
I then stated Camacho was fluid, which he absolutely was.

YOU pointed out that Oscar beat Camacho.

It is YOU who got off the topic. It's you who seemed to get edgy over what was said.
I believe you, is fair:)
I believe, that " Camacho was fluid, which he absolutely was " and I promise whenever possible to look its early fights. Has convinced, I swear:)
As I shall repeat, that " You have emphasized not on the basic ideas of mine post. It was simply the note... ". But you " It is YOU who got off the topic ". Take it easy, man:)

Aaron Pryor......GRACEFUL ?

Not at all.

He was perpetual motion.....& could contort his body, punch off of angles, unlike just about any fighter I've seen.

But "graceful" ?

Nah....saw him off-balance too many times....running into shots....getting floored by DuJuan Johnson, Akio Kameda, Antonio Cervantes.
that's what i was thinking, he's one of my favorite fighters of all time but far from graceful...

Ricardo Lopez is the most gracefull I have ever seen hands down

ali was graceful

ali was graceful
It completely agree. To look fights Ali one pleasure.

that's what i was thinking, he's one of my favorite fighters of all time but far from graceful...

You see we will have to agree to differ but I see Pryors constant movement as being fluid and graceful, not in the same way as a sugar ray lenord... but definatley graceful

You see we will have to agree to differ but I see Pryors constant movement as being fluid and graceful, not in the same way as a sugar ray lenord... but definatley graceful



yeah....but his flailing, off-balance, getting knocked down ways detracted from the times he settled down & showed fluidity.