Your Favorite Boxing Style

[jabsRstiff]

Wait a minute, u talkin about the same fight where mister 4 styles kept sayin' "No Mas"?????? He was good but like the next guy said, he was skilled Brawler, he knew how to setup his wild shots with feints & head movement! U Can Dig it?!?!

No. The first fight, which Duran won....was in Montreal. the second was in New Orleans.
How do you not know that ?

[Hydro]

Hagler, especially, is mistaken as a brawler/arrior type. He won a great deal of fights by boxing. He'd paste guys with that awesome jab, rake them with combos, & not take much back in return. Once he hurt them, though, he turned up the heat & finished the job. He brawled more against certain opponents (Hearns, Obel, Mugabi).....
He also boxed a little too much against both Duran & Leonard. He needed to get on their asses earler & more than he did.

True. Hagler was a boxer-puncher. It gets a little annoying when newbies talk about him like he was totally a brawler and slugger. Watch some Hagler fights besides the Hearns one, or the latter rounds against Mugabi.

I like all types. When Floys is boxing more in the pocket or trading (Chavez, Gatti, Ndou, Burton, Corley) , and not moving as much (Baldomir, JLC 2), I enjoy watching him a lot.

I like guys who attack, but much more when they're skillful, like a J.C. Chavez or a young Tyson. One guy who was an attacker (but with very good boxing skills as well) that I actually find more fights dull or tedious than entertaining is Roberto Duran. That is usually not his fault, but he was so good on the inside that guys would hold him a lot of run, and the fights would often be ugly (Buchanan, Bizzarro, especially Lampkin). But I still like watching the great things Duran did, you just had to sit thru a lot of stink to get there.

One of my favorite swarmers was Qawi. I loved watching him slip shots from the crouch and then beat up his opponents slowly.

[Panamaniac]

Good point. I might add that while Duran came to prominence as a "brawler" he pretty much deployed all 4 basic styles as the situation or opponent dictated. The fight that best exemplified his brawling style was (aptly named) "The Brawl in Montreal" which kept Sugar Ray Leonard back on his heels...

Wait a minute, u talkin about the same fight where mister 4 styles kept sayin' "No Mas"?

That was an uncalled-for low blow/cheap shot! The guy had a meltdown... nobody's perfect...

[jabsRstiff]

"One of my favorite swarmers was Qawi. I loved watching him slip shots from the crouch and then beat up his opponents slowly."

There was one dude who used his lack of height to his advantage. He tucked his chin in extra tight, & created a very difficult target. He also had a great left jab, which he brought up from down low. Very punishing fighter, though I'll alays dislike him to a degree for beating Saad Muhammad.

[PJ Ladd]

That would be Mayweather. Klitschko got it easier (being bigger than 90% of his opposition due to the no weight limit). Mayweather is a better example. Can box going forward AND while going back. Can fight on the inside (Oscar) and on the outside (Baldomir). The most complete. In the HW Klitschko is the better fighter of all but don't forget is huge physical advantages over 90% of the opposition. Cong**** to his mom and dad i guess

Well, the thread is about favorites, not who's actually the best at which style. You're right, he's a superb fighter, but like many people think, he's boring to watch.

[Panamaniac]

Well, the thread is about favorites, not who's actually the best at which style. You're right, he's a superb fighter, but like many people think, he's boring to watch.

Since one can't seperate the styles from to fighters, it's not off topic to discuss the fighters that best exemplified the styles...