List Your Top Five: Smartest and Dumbest Boxers IN THE RING.

[P.K Dionysus]

As the title states, I'd like you to list 5 examples of boxers who you think are the smartest, as well as the dumbest IN THE RING aka highest and lowest ring IQ. I couldn't care less if the dude is a nuclear physicist OUT the ring, if he displays Homer Simpson like intelligence in the ring, then he belongs in Low Ring IQ column.

Let's list and discuss!

PS: Happy Friday. Have your fun, but be responsible about it. Swallow/shoot/snort whatever you want, but don't operate power tools/drive/use a fire arm if you do.

[Chuckguy]

Smartest
Floyd
Ward
Loma

Dumbest
Rios
Margarito
Ruslan
Matty ice

[Kagami Taiga]

To me one of the dumbest boxers I've ever seen is Tim Bradley.

[boxinggod101]

To me one of the dumbest boxers I've ever seen is Tim Bradley.

well ur dumber than I thought than. The dumbest boxer u ever seen is Tim Bradley?

[NearHypnos]

Smartest?

Rigo
Loma
Ward
Wlad
And as an honorable mention (despite me knowing he's not up here) I'm going to give a shout out to Malignaggi in terms of his understanding of the game. Paulie hasn't a single enviable physical quality..infact he's completely below average in almost everything besides fortitude. How he's reached success with so little to offer physically is honestly impressive. It's been strictly IQ.


Dumbest? The usual suspects....
Rios
Khan
Ortrees
K9
Kirkland

Don't fret, little ones. I realize I didn't say Floyd, JMM, Chocolatito, B Hop and others you may consider uber technicians...but Floyd, JMM, and B Hop I dont know if or when they'll fight again. Kovalev deserves a mention in the smartest too..very nuanced and disciplined. He's not just a come forward killer.




And Boxinggod..you're setting yourself up as he said one of. :/

Bradley is a def honorable mention in the dumbest category. He'd be on a separate list with Zab and Gamboa as guys who CAN be phenomenal and do have an iq...lord knows where it goes sometimes. Bradley has been lucky he doesn't have a Khan chin or he and Khan would be perennial high light reels

[Kagami Taiga]

well ur dumber than I thought than. The dumbest boxer u ever seen is Tim Bradley?

You don't know me so why do I care? And absolutely. He doesn't even make mistakes. That's not his problem. He always finds the way to do the opposite if what he should do. So take the Providnikov fight for example. Dude was winning the fight by boxing and countering using his footwork, so what does he do? He starts brawling, for no reason at that. Bradley has the ability, he is much more capable than he looks in certain fights, but he often find a a way to lose all common sense in his fights.

[Johnwoo8686]

Well if were talking about top level fighters, Andre Berto is up there with one of the dumbest. As well as Margarito, Rios, and Kamegai.

Mayweather, Rigondeaux, and Kovalev are probably the smartest guys right now.
Kovalev has a hugely underrated ring IQ.

[Lester Tutor]

Lesss see. Smartest and Dumbest is definitely Nikolai Valuev!

[-PBP-]

To me one of the dumbest boxers I've ever seen is Tim Bradley.

Beat me to it.

[Johnwoo8686]

To me one of the dumbest boxers I've ever seen is Tim Bradley.

Tim is definitely not the dumbest o even close to it. He has a habit of not sticking to his gameplan and getting wreckless but hes not a dumb fighter by any means.