All BS aside, name the fighters in your lifetime with BETTER SKILLS than Floyd, Jr...

[QUISQUEYA]

Boxing skills include:

Sharp, accurate punching
Footwork
Positioning
Able to throw every punch in the arsenal
Defense
Speed
Mental preparedness
Ability to adapt
Versatility
Ring vision
Timing
Etc...



And you can even include "attributes":

Chin
Power
Stamina
Side note: many people disagree with my general separation of "skills" and "attributes". But I like to argue that Willie Pep are Pernell Whitaker are very skilled. But they didn't have the natural attribute of power.
Maybe the best way for me to put it is that "skills are improvable", and "power is generally not improvable".


Muhammad Ali?
Pernell Whitaker?
Sugar Ray Leonard?
Marco Antonio Barrera?
Shane Mosley?
Roy Jones, Jr?? (????)
Pinklon Thomas
Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacquiao?


Who are the guys you would say are "more skilled" than Floyd?

I ask this because Floyd SENIOR and Roger are very critical of other fighters, and I think they have been spoiled by being so close to Lil Floyd.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

IMO, prime roy....


not as fundamentally sound (textbook-wise) as floyd but i rank him superior in your stated criteria

[Google_It_Bitch]

Roy Jones Jr
Sugar Ray Leonard

[QUISQUEYA]

IMO, prime roy....


not as fundamentally sound (textbook-wise) as floyd but i rank him superior in your stated criteria

You perceive Roy to be a more versatile fighter?

I put the (extra) question marks next to Roy because people say he was 'an athletic freak", not a boxer. But i have seen RJJ's amateur bouts. He did use a more classic (fundamental) style.

[elfag]

[SIZE="3"]Boxing skills include:




Muhammad Ali?
Pernell Whitaker?
Sugar Ray Leonard?
Marco Antonio Barrera?
Shane Mosley?
Roy Jones, Jr?? (????)
Pinklon Thomas
Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacquiao?


Who are the guys you would say are "more skilled" than Floyd?

You already listed quite a few for us

[Left Hook Tua]

carlos baldomir
henry bruseles
phillip ndou
demarcus corley
victoriano sosa

too many to mention.

[Jesus el Rey]

me in 4 years

[MANGLER]

Co-sign those who said prime RJ.

[GreatestIam]

RJJ
Mike Tyson
Hopkins
Calzaghe

[Fox McCloud]

carlos baldomir
henry bruseles
phillip ndou
demarcus corley
victoriano sosa

too many to mention.

The first two that came to mind were Sweet Pea Whitaker and Marco Antonio Barrera.