Most boring fighters

[billeau2]

A slightly boring subject. I guess we can use as a 'consumer advice - thread'. Which fighters not to watch unless you have severe problems falling asleep....

So here we go.

Can you name some of the dullest fighters you know?

I got:

Cory Spinks

Pernell Whitaker

John Ruiz

Eyup Can

Nikolai Valuev


and my winning sleep inducer:


SVEN OTTKE!!!


Who have you got?




PS: This thread is an offspring from a debate in another thread.

Lol, I was going to respectfully disagree with two of your choices, I had said to myself "Michael Spinks?, now maybe Cory, that was a boring Spinks." Then I looked again and saw you had Corey. So my only disagreement would be Whitaker. And I do think there is a tendency for people to equate defensive fighters=boring. But IMO two of the most exciting fighters would be Pernell and Nikoli Loche.

Lets see for boring:

winky for sure...
Corey indeed!
Pretty much i agree for the rest of your picks...

[BattlingNelson]

The 'grabbers list.'

Gianfranco Rosi (Worst of the worst.)

Pernell Whitaker (Master of the non-event, "Did something happen that last round?" . . . "Almost, but then it didn't.")

Wald Klitschko ("Get your program, ya can't tell one fight from another without a program" ; "What will he do next." . . . Oh, yea, never mind.")

Muhammad Ali (Not Clay just Ali.)

Jack Johnson (His purported mastery of defense was half holding; Ali before Ali, was Ali.)

snoozers all

P.S. Yes, I often found Ali boring to watch. But sure, there are exceptions.

P.S.S. By happenstance I was in Assisi Italy, Gianfranco Rosi's birth place. A (beautiful) tourist trap town where some important dead monk and his birds are buried.

Walking the street, I notice many of the shops were suddenly (and actually in some cases) un-clerked.

The damn town went quiet. I purposely went into a store that looked empty and kept walking until I was peering into the store's dusty back room. Found three old Italian men watching a small b&w TV.

(ROSI-GOMIS for the IBF Mediterranean Middleweight Title.)

I was waved in and got to watch the local boy stall, grab, and hug his way to a W 12-UD.

It could have been the perfect day, the venue and the company were perfect, but I had to, out of respect, cheer on 12 dismal rounds of holding.

Agreed that most of the post Frazier 3 defenses was quite sleep inducing, I can never ever put Ali on the list given he produced some of the best ever fights!

And thx for sharing your Rosi story.

[BattlingNelson]

Great list except for Pea who is simply too good to belong in this class among giants. I would like to include Derrick Gainer as a dark horse candidate. He doesn't get the respect he deserves.

Pea was seriously one of the top most boring fighters. You just knew beforehand that he would win an uneventful decision making you sleep after the first 3 rounds only for you to wake up nine rounds later having missed nothing and an rbr would have been the same no matter the round lol.

[BattlingNelson]

Lol, I was going to respectfully disagree with two of your choices, I had said to myself "Michael Spinks?, now maybe Cory, that was a boring Spinks." Then I looked again and saw you had Corey. So my only disagreement would be Whitaker. And I do think there is a tendency for people to equate defensive fighters=boring. But IMO two of the most exciting fighters would be Pernell and Nikoli Loche.

Lets see for boring:

winky for sure...
Corey indeed!
Pretty much i agree for the rest of your picks...

Winky! How could I forget? That was a sleeping pill waiting to be swallowed!

[billeau2]

Winky! How could I forget? That was a sleeping pill waiting to be swallowed!

Winky... The eyes get heavy and winky before closing.

[Slugfester]

Lol, I was going to respectfully disagree with two of your choices, I had said to myself "Michael Spinks?, now maybe Cory, that was a boring Spinks." Then I looked again and saw you had Corey. So my only disagreement would be Whitaker. And I do think there is a tendency for people to equate defensive fighters=boring. But IMO two of the most exciting fighters would be Pernell and Nikoli Loche.

Lets see for boring:

winky for sure...
Corey indeed!
Pretty much i agree for the rest of your picks...

Exactly so. Locche couldn't punch his way out of a cobweb, but I found him exciting to watch. Same with Pea.

[billeau2]

Exactly so. Locche couldn't punch his way out of a cobweb, but I found him exciting to watch. Same with Pea.

A crisis emerged in the Locche training camp when he ran out of cigarettes.

[The D3vil]

You motherfxckers naming Pernell Whitaker & Muhammad Ali up in this bxtch

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[Shadoww702]

Fres Oquendo was boring as ***.
Rig.
Lara

[Shadoww702]

Andrade is boring as *** also. You could throw a chair in the ring with him and it goes 12 rounds.