Who had the most unique boxing/fighting style to date in your opinion?
I think emannel agustus was pretty unique it was like a drunkin monkey type of style.
Roy jones very unique to i think he gets the most unique style for me because he made it work for him and was sucessful with it.
Why are people mentioning James Toney? His style is very old-school (people overuse this phrase, but it's very accurate in this regard).
It's not that it's one of a kind, like a Hamed, it's that he uses it better than most guys nowadays. It's a throwback to older fighters, and Toney has no problem talking about where his style comes from.
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2565288
The skills that Toney displays -- the ability to stand directly in front of a fighter and still make him miss through subtle feints and shoulder rolls; the counter right hand/left hook, Toney's signature combination, delivered from the blind side behind his shoulder; the way in which he almost invariably draws an opponent into fighting his game plan -- are all tricks he learned from his first trainer in Detroit's fabled Kronk Gym when Toney turned pro back in 1988.
"Bill Miller, he was a great old man, he sat me down and showed me tapes of old fighters," Toney recalled. "Ezzard Charles, Albert 'Chalky' Wright. Battling Siki. People like that. Jersey Joe Walcott. Archie Moore. He would say, 'This is how you learn. This is the correct way of fighting.' So I would sit there and watch tapes over and over again, and try those things in the gym, and I would get murdered. But I kept coming back, kept coming back, kept working, kept learning my trade. And then one day it was like each of those fighter's spirits entered my body and made me fight like that."
http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&opt=printable&id=5116
Toney and Futch share a few concrete connections as well as physic links; concretely they both were steeped in Detroit boxing history and shared a love of the old-time boxers such as Charles and Walcott, for Toney these were men to aspire to stylistically, for Eddie they were his era, his guys. Another, metaphysical, link is the fact that Eddie is said to have trained James Toney Senior; maybe this rubbed off on Little Toney himself somewhat by ensuring that he had the boxing DNA of a king rolling through his veins.
Unorthodox boxers that had there own style that no one can copy and only they were good at
Mike Tyson
Roy jones jr
James toney
Prince Naseem Hamed
Augustus
Manny Pacquiao
gd names there i agree
Ali. There has been a lot of clones after him, but he reinvented HW-boxing.
Naz was unique as well. No-one has tried emulating him afterwards.
Bob Fitzsimmons should get an honorable mention as the inventor of the solar-plexus punch.
I cant really think of others.
Chris Eubank's style was certainly his own, he moved his own way and threw odd but very eyecatching combinations!
Naz, Herol Graham, Carlos Mauser also had styles of their own!
James toney is worth a mention and so is naseem hamed i agree.
James Toney's style is similar to some old-time fighters that Pops Miller had him watch videos of.
Naseem Hamed's outrageous style is similar to.......no one.