Who Was The Best 'Swarmer'/Pressure Fighter In History?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Roberto Duran. "Hands of Stone" hands down.

Henry Armstrong would get my number two vote.

Both were unreal.

[Godsfly]

reberto duran wasn't a through & through swarmer........he only fought in the very lightweights as a swarmer.

frazier was a swarmer from the beginning to the end.

for me it's joe frazier.....i have never seen a man swarm & keep it up for 15 rounds without breaking a sweat like that. guy was a ****** animal........


it's ether greb, homicide, frazier, or dempsey.


i go with frazier.......just so underrated with that high stamina style.

[VG_Addict]

Add Frazier and La Motta.. btw Marciano and Frazier were better inside fighters than Tyson.

Tyson wasn't an inside fighter. He got tied up too easily to be called an inside fighter.

Prime Tyson was more of an aggressive counter-puncher.

[Weltschmerz]

Tyson wasn't an inside fighter. He got tied up too easily to be called an inside fighter.

Prime Tyson was more of an aggressive counter-puncher.

he was a mid-range fighter. boxer-puncher

[Nay_Sayer]

Add Frazier and La Motta.. btw Marciano and Frazier were better inside fighters than Tyson.

The only thing Marciano did better than Tyson was eat punches...

[Kigali]

Roberto Duran. "Hands of Stone" hands down.

Henry Armstrong would get my number two vote.

Both were unreal.

Aaron Pryor was more of a swarmer than Duran.

[New England]

when i think swarming i think of somebody like ricky hatton. he always had a glove, shoulder, or his head on you, and if he didn't he had fast enough feet to put you on the ropes where he'd get a glove on or around you soon enough.\


mike tyson is not a swarmer. he didn't want to get all the way insdie where he could be held. he stayed at a middle distance, moved his head and his feet, and punched in combination. he was extremely technical for a HW.

[bojangles1987]

reberto duran wasn't a through & through swarmer........he only fought in the very lightweights as a swarmer.

frazier was a swarmer from the beginning to the end.

for me it's joe frazier.....i have never seen a man swarm & keep it up for 15 rounds without breaking a sweat like that. guy was a ****** animal........


it's ether greb, homicide, frazier, or dempsey.


i go with frazier.......just so underrated with that high stamina style.

Frazier's workrate and stamina was just unreal. You don't see anything like that today outside of the lowest weight divisions.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Aaron Pryor was more of a swarmer than Duran.

Agree to disagree.

[Tomjas]

Jeff Fenech was a monster in his prime - would set a pace nobody could live with and was dirty as hell to go with it