Top 10 Defensive Boxers of All-Time (P4P)

[nachorjj]

I dont see benny leonard and pep

Pernell Whittaker
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Winky Wright
Roy Jones Jr
Andre Ward
Omar Narvaez
Sergio Martinez
Mohamed Ali
Nicolino Loche
Bernard Hopkins or James Toney or Arthur Abraham

[Toney616]

In no particular order:
James Toney
Mayweather
Locche
Hagler
Pep
McCallum
Qawi

[GameGod]

Yes, to be fair I seem to have missed out Toney and Locche unfairly.
As for the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard and Benny Leonard, they were often offensively minded, not defensively minded, and hence do not qualify. Jack Johnson is somewhere in between, but since his defence was so far ahead of his time it is probably fair to include him in the list.

[talip bin osman]

roberto duran gets very underrated in this regard...

[gibo]

IVAN CALDERON. No one can touch him!

[frankenfrank]

Why are you so obsessed with size?

Why were weight classes invented ?

[frankenfrank]

Did you seriously just say Chris Byrd and Norris have better defense then Locche and Whitaker ?.

****ing lol.

Do you see Locche and Whitaker being competitive and sometimes winning against fighters like Joe Calzaghe or James Toney ? because this is what you should compare Byrd and Norris' fights to.

[cameronpaul]

prince nasseem hamed hasnt been mentioned. proper quick reflexes, almost like a smaller style of ali.

[NChristo]

Do you see Locche and Whitaker being competitive and sometimes winning against fighters like Joe Calzaghe or James Toney ? because this is what you should compare Byrd and Norris' fights to.

Locche completely embarrassed an ATG in Antonio Cervantes in their first fight.
Locche was a defensive genius, it's almost like he could see a few seconds into the future and dodge everything that was thrown at him plus he did excellent under pressure, really Frank I can't see how you can argue that someone like Norris and Byrd has better defense then Locche, you're just doing this to cause another argument.

I don't even need to say anything about Whitaker really.

[TheMagicMan]

I dont think people read the freaking question and its actually a decent question. Freaking DEFENSIVE fighters.

If you put RJJ-you lose. He did not have a defensive style at all.
If you put Mohamed Ali or Muhammad Ali-you lose. dudes style was punching and getting punched in the face, but always fighting people coming off of losses or who were much smaller than him, or were drugged or bribed or the judges were paid off.

If you mentioned Nas-you should be banned. Dude literally had no defense, none. Straight offense. Being able to back away from a punch or dodge it doesnt make you a defensive fighter.

BHop, Toney, Floyd, PWhit,

And the greatest defensive fighter of all time: Wladimir Klitschko.