Which Boxer Has/Had The Most Fan Friendly Style?...

[TripleGFightFan]

For me, Manny Pacquiao has always been fan-friendly. Especially when he was ripping through guys like Oscar, Cotto and so on. One of the most exciting fighters to watch, ever, in my opinion.

Prime Mayweather was amazing to watch when he fought in the pocket, like he did against Cotto. But I admire the sweet science, not all do.

Roy Jones is a great shout. As a British fan, Hatton was always great to watch. Hence his huge following.

Forgot about pacquiao and hatton...esp when pac dropped david diaz like a pack of potatoes...good one...and you're right manny has definitely always been a fan friendly fighter...i'll give him that...and hatton would wrestle but he did make it entertaining and would get KO's...I admire the sweet science too and mayweather featherweight days and junior welter days were something else...

[TripleGFightFan]

Prime Roy Jones was not fan friendly, people watch his highlights aka snippets of the best moments of his fights, watch his entire fights they were not as exciting as his highlights, people complained that he was boring if you grew up in that era he got criticized hard, and was never a ppv attraction because of his style. And yes I am a roy jones jr fan, but im honest he wasn't fan friendly.

I would say in terms of fighting style no swag or personality to influence just fighting, Mike Tyson, George Foreman in his prime, Roberto Duran in his prime, Tommy Hearns, prime Evander Holyfield and Manny Pacquiao and Edwin Valero. I can list more but those are the ones off the top of the dome.

Pacquiao is a great example of fan friendly, when that dude first fought people became instant fans, Floyd Mayweather became a fan of his, Larry Merchant and Lampley, the majority of people in Mexico who loved boxing, they even said he was Mexican style before Triple G.

I loved Edwin Valero...he has more of a violent style than entertaining...but still entertaining nonetheless...great mention...people didin't complain that roy was boring...his competition wasn't on his level because he was that good...so haters said he was boring...I've never seen a boring RJJ fight when he fought in his prime...as entertaining as pacquiao can be not all of his fights were fan friendly...it takes two to tango...and most opponents roy faced weren't on his level...not his fault because he was that good at the time...like he said..."ya'll must of forgot"...

[TripleGFightFan]

Casual fan friendly would be guys like Arturo Gatti and James Kirkland

Boxing fan friendly would be like Hagler, Duran, Leonard and Hearns


I separate the two because some people don't distinguish between crude excitement and technically sound/skilled excitement.

Great post...different excitement levels for purists and casuals...

[jai mari078]

Right now:
Kovalev
GGG
Canelo
Cotto
Provodnikov
Terrence Crawford
Lomachenko
Just to name a few

[BigAlexSand]

Tyson had one of the more friendly styles although it only lasted 6-8 rounds. Jones was far from exciting. Duran was great to watch as well as Hagler and Leonard. In recent times, Kovalev takes the toping.

[TripleGFightFan]

roy jones had the most fan friendly style?

somebody only watchewd the highlight reels



arturo gatti is the most exciting fighter in the history of the sport. arturo f#cking gatti. i was blessed to watch a lot of his fights live. dude was the perfect combination of broken blood vessels, titanic punching power, and a leaky defense.

his chin was bad enouhg to get hurt, but good enough to let him rally back.

he was the perfect storm of an action fighter. you'll probably never get anothger like him. that's why he's a hall of famer. i wouldn't vote for him myseflf, but i can absolutely see why people did. he was in a handful of all time great fights.

Prime Roy Jones...and yes I enjoyed his fights...not talking highlight reels...loved his lead left hooks...you're not a fan so you wouldn't understand how entertaining it was to see him with his guards down and couldn't be touched...anyway...gatti was entertaining too...he really mollywopped gamache...meldrick taylor was entertaining to me too...

[TripleGFightFan]

Arturo Gatti. Gatti actually could box it's just that whenever he got hit hard, he'd forget and start brawling and, in retrospect and at that time, it was awesome to watch - win, lose or draw. I also think of people like Barrera and Morales and the likes who, again, had definitive skills (even more than Gatti in their cases), but brawled and really put on great fights in their careers.

Right now, I'm looking at people like Leo Santa Cruz, Dennis Lebedev, Vic Darchinyan and others - Estrada is a really good one - who fight really hard and exciting fights, win or lose, almost every time out and when it isn't, you look at their opponents as the reason why it wasn't.

Darchinyan is always in an exciting fight...he puts the "chin" in Darchinyan...

[hectari]

Pacquiao and Valero would have been one of the all time greatest scraps, both guys were exciting southpaw power punchers who threw combos often and ambushes guys when they tried to reset, and balls out warriors. Anyone notice how much Gennad Golovkin looks like Edwin Valero? I never noticed this but these guys have similar faces if you look at them from far and-when Valero had short hair.

Prime Pacquiao


Edwin Valero

[SplitSecond]

I've seen every Roy Jones fight and found him very exciting. He had a few stinkers like everyone does e.g Danny Garcia fight, Harding fight among a few other. Also think Hopkins fight is underrated, it's a real good watch to me, just enjoying the technical skills, never understood Merchants opinion of it. He got more boring when he was passed prime(before Tarver), Derrick Harmon and that cruiser-weight Haye also KO'd were pretty boring.

[No Tomorrow]

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