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Very interesting. Of course that has to include the category of ring generalship, too.
I believe I know the answer to the Has part of the question--I would say Mikey Garcia--but the Had part is a question of the all time greats.
The skill set must include at least:
1 Ring generalship
2 Punching power
3 All Aspects of Defense
4 Discipline
5 Consistency
6 Durability and Stamina
7 Footwork
8 In-Fighting
9 Adaptability
10 Chin
Who had the deepest Medicine Bag of boxing knowledge to resort to when the going got tough?
Allow me, please, to list a few fighters I would consider contenders for this honorable distinction.
Archie Moore
Gene Tunney
Ray Robinson
We could list many more serious contenders, but I will not.
Now if it were true that boxing technique has advanced beyond the old ways, as some argue, it would not do to have any old timer on the list. Count me among those, evidently, who believe that all this talk of the evolutionary advancement of boxing technique during--say--the last half century, is faddish thinking. Others would argue that it is the training techniques themselves which have out-advanced the old ways, and in areas like nutrition, etc. I won't touch that. This is just about technique and who had the widest and deepest skill set of all.
Honestly, the single true advancement I can think of is Cus's peek-a-boo style. No doubt other boxers before that had employed similar techniques, but Cus formalized it into a system. To use a musical analogy, that would at least make Cus the equivalent of the first guy who formalized the study and technique of banjo rolls on a guitar, or the first guy to simulate pedal steel guitar sounds on the six string electric guitar. Cus seems to have made an actual advancement.
I do not defy people to name another true advancement, but I believe they are extremely rare nowadays.
Give it a try, lads. It is a hard question. For any of you to whom the answer comes immediately and automatically, you should meditate in that case on who you think had the second deepest medicine bag of all time, and report it.
I believe the Gibbons brothers knew about all there is to know about boxing. Neither one of them had a punch, however, so apparently they had not perfected that part of their technical arsenal to the point where they employed it in battle.
I believe I know the answer to the Has part of the question--I would say Mikey Garcia--but the Had part is a question of the all time greats.
The skill set must include at least:
1 Ring generalship
2 Punching power
3 All Aspects of Defense
4 Discipline
5 Consistency
6 Durability and Stamina
7 Footwork
8 In-Fighting
9 Adaptability
10 Chin
Who had the deepest Medicine Bag of boxing knowledge to resort to when the going got tough?
Allow me, please, to list a few fighters I would consider contenders for this honorable distinction.
Archie Moore
Gene Tunney
Ray Robinson
We could list many more serious contenders, but I will not.
Now if it were true that boxing technique has advanced beyond the old ways, as some argue, it would not do to have any old timer on the list. Count me among those, evidently, who believe that all this talk of the evolutionary advancement of boxing technique during--say--the last half century, is faddish thinking. Others would argue that it is the training techniques themselves which have out-advanced the old ways, and in areas like nutrition, etc. I won't touch that. This is just about technique and who had the widest and deepest skill set of all.
Honestly, the single true advancement I can think of is Cus's peek-a-boo style. No doubt other boxers before that had employed similar techniques, but Cus formalized it into a system. To use a musical analogy, that would at least make Cus the equivalent of the first guy who formalized the study and technique of banjo rolls on a guitar, or the first guy to simulate pedal steel guitar sounds on the six string electric guitar. Cus seems to have made an actual advancement.
I do not defy people to name another true advancement, but I believe they are extremely rare nowadays.
Give it a try, lads. It is a hard question. For any of you to whom the answer comes immediately and automatically, you should meditate in that case on who you think had the second deepest medicine bag of all time, and report it.
I believe the Gibbons brothers knew about all there is to know about boxing. Neither one of them had a punch, however, so apparently they had not perfected that part of their technical arsenal to the point where they employed it in battle.
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