Best defensive fighter middleweight+

[likeamulekick]

Whitaker, mayweather, pep etc best ever defensive fighters but who is the best defensive fighter among the big guys at middleweight and above?

[Japanese Boxing]

Burley is up there if he counts. The standard Louis, Johnson, Toney etc.

[forget]

Joey Maxim.

[mickey malone]

Jimmy Bivins deserves a shout

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Toney, jones, Byrd, jimmy young. First names that popped up in my head

[TBear]

Joey Maxim.

I remember watching a Archie Moore interview where he kept saying how hard it was to hit Maxim.

[Kiddoe]

James Toney for sure. This Andre Ward guy is showing some promise.

[Mikhnienko]

Gene Tunney
Tommy Loughran
Mike Gibbons
Tommy Gibbons
Teddy Yarosz
Maxie Rosenbloom
Billy Conn
Willie Pastrano
Harold Johnson
Sumbu Kalambay
Dwight Qawi
James Toney
Chris Byrd

[mickey malone]

Gene Tunney
Tommy Loughran
Mike Gibbons
Tommy Gibbons
Teddy Yarosz
Maxie Rosenbloom
Billy Conn
Willie Pastrano
Harold Johnson
Sumbu Kalambay
Dwight Qawi
James Toney
Chris Byrd

Good list, apart from Tunney and Qawi were both more attack minded imo... Perhaps Bivins and Holman Williams instead

[Flo_Raiden]

Surprised no one mentioned George Benton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYnF8SWNjs