Similiar styles

[JAB5239]

James Toney has a great deal of similarities to Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles, plus lots of other black guys from that time who used similar techniques

Floyd too

Was it Hopkins who mentioned trying to emulate the styles of Walcott and Charles?

[1SILVA]

Was it Hopkins who mentioned trying to emulate the styles of Walcott and Charles?

Other similar styles:

George Foreman-Sonny Liston
Ivan Calderon-Hilario Zapata
Israel vazquez-Lupe Pintor
Miguel Cotto-Wilfredo Gomez
Mike Tyson-Jack Dempsey

[Suckmedry]

Was it Hopkins who mentioned trying to emulate the styles of Walcott and Charles?

Maybe, but I've heard James talk about it at length also.

[JAB5239]

Maybe, but I've heard James talk about it at length also.

Maybe it was Toney and not Hopkins. I can't remember.

[SpecialOne]

Tyson-Frazier

[TheGreatA]

Maybe it was Toney and not Hopkins. I can't remember.

Both of them did.

"I'm cut from the cloth of the old Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Henry Armstrong tradition. Those are people I look up to."

-Bernard Hopkins

“I developed my style by watching tapes of old fighters. I watched Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott constantly. I learned a lot from watching these guys and studying. Some of it just comes naturally."

-James Toney

[QuietOne]

George Foreman-Sonny Liston

Foreman and Liston are nothing alike, style wise.

Liston was actually a good pure boxer, whereas Foreman was far from it.

[DeepSleep]

Frazier - Qawi - Mormeck

[sonnyboyx2]

Jimmy Young - Chris Byrd

[JAB5239]

Both of them did.

"I'm cut from the cloth of the old Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Henry Armstrong tradition. Those are people I look up to."

-Bernard Hopkins

“I developed my style by watching tapes of old fighters. I watched Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott constantly. I learned a lot from watching these guys and studying. Some of it just comes naturally."

-James Toney

Thank you sir!