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

[El-blanco]

Mayorga is definitely one of the dumbest.

[baya]

5 smartest guys i saw in the ring:

floyd - smartest
finito
jmm
barrera
morales

5 dumbest guys i saw in the ring:

golata - dumbest (pole)
jcc jr
joshua clottey
vic ortiz
brandon rios

[soul_survivor]

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.

If we're talking all time, I gotta go with:

Smartest
Ali
Robinson
Leonard
Holmes
Pep

Dumbest (Relatively speaking of course)
Tyson
Williams (almost always gave up his height advantage)
Patterson
McCall
Gatti

Now, currently, I'd go with:

Smartest
Bradley
Rigo
GGG
Ward
Hopkins (not yet retired)

Dumbest
Rios
Provo
Alvarado
Eubank Jr
Andy Lee

[soul_survivor]

5 smartest guys i saw in the ring:

floyd - smartest
finito
jmm
barrera
morales

5 dumbest guys i saw in the ring:

golata - dumbest (pole)
jcc jr
joshua clottey
vic ortiz
brandon rios

Clottey? How so?

The guy had pretty good defense and knew when to counter. He was never a genius but far from the dumbest.

[yngwie]

Smartest:
McCallum
Napoles
Lomachenko
Whitaker
Mayweather

Dumbest:
Norris
Tyson
Golota
Judah
Margarito

[baya]

Clottey? How so?

The guy had pretty good defense and knew when to counter. He was never a genius but far from the dumbest.

his inability to simply throw punches when it would have won him fights. sheer inactivity. neglecting to do the one thing that boxers do, punch.

[NapalmKnuckles]

Smartest: Bernard Hopkins, Winky Wright, Juan Manuel Marquez, Joe Calzaghe, Vasyl Lomachenko

Dumbest: James Kirkland, Ruslan Provodnikov, Cornelius Bundrage, Vic Darchinyan, Yoshihiro Kamegai

[Willy Wanker]

Not sure about 5, but I just wanna say that Victor Ortiz is dumb as ****.

[Dodger07]

Smartest:

Ward
Lomachenko
Chocolatito
Rigo
Kovalev

Dumbest:
Kirkland
Khan
Provodnikov
Rios
Judah

[BrometheusBob.]

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

Very good pick. He may be a C level fighter, but when you hear Malignaggi talk about the game you realize that he knows as much as anyone else and is just not good enough an athlete to live up to how knowledgeable he is. He would probably be a decent trainer, but I can't complain with him being an announcer.