Slick pressure fighters

[Eric Holder]

personally speaking, nothing beats watching a slick pressure fighter

coming forward throwing punches and making your opponent miss = the sweet science

[Dynamite Kid]

personally speaking, nothing beats watching a slick pressure fighter

coming forward throwing punches and making your opponent miss = the sweet science

Yeah that is the real art of Boxing, being aggressive and defensive at the same time, those guys are always the best to watch because you can appreciate both sides.

[Iceta]

A prime Hopkins would pressure opponents a lot of times, and he still had good defense. Toney has a similar defense, but he still liked to feed off of other fighters' aggression. Hopkins got to that point to when he got older, but he would break a lot of guys down by pressuring them. He did it in an intelligent way though.

[TredKiller]

i always thought tat towards the end of his carrer hagler was a pretty slick pressure fighter.

[Heru]

Tavoris Clous will soon be mentioned on these. A power punching pressure fighter with a shoulder roll that can throw 60,70 punches a round is damn impressive.

[BrooklynBomber]

Joe calzaghe.

[x-PeROxiDE-x]

Definitely agree with those that said Calzaghe, but what about Hatton?

Admitedly, he went downhill mid to late in his career, but early Hatton was pretty slick while still maintaining the immense pressure he always brought.

Anyone who can be KO'd by Floyd (no disrespect to Floyd, but at the weight he was hardly a KO artist) and yet be undefeated for that long against some pretty good fighters has to be slick.

[Fox McCloud]

How about Juan Diaz?

Back a year ago or so, compubox put out reports on the top fighters on their connect percentage vs. opponent's connect percentage.

Mayweather was first, predictably. Juan Diaz was second. He is right in your face all the time, and still manages to not get hit very much at all.

He gets my vote.

[HandSpeed303]

Usually in boxing you have a couple styles. the slick defensive minded style, or the pressure fighting, dont let your opponent breath style.

I was thinking, is there any top fighter like that today? I mean you never really see that style. I always though watching Duran vids in his prime, that he was actually pretty slick for being offensive

I don't know about today, but two of my all time favorites just might fall under that catagory.

Frankie Randall
Stevie Johnston

[Eric Holder]

How about Juan Diaz?

Back a year ago or so, compubox put out reports on the top fighters on their connect percentage vs. opponent's connect percentage.

Mayweather was first, predictably. Juan Diaz was second. He is right in your face all the time, and still manages to not get hit very much at all.

He gets my vote.

wow that's impressive, I wouldn't have expected Juan Diaz to be second. By any chance do you have a link to that report?