Who is the Greatest Defensive Fighter of All Time?

[boliodogs]

I think Mayweather had a better defense than Whitaker because he could be on the attack and still be very hard to hit. Whitaker could be a real bad runner at times. Just not getting hit because you are running away or not throwing punches does not impress me as much as Mayweather who was so hard to hit clean even when he was not running or attacking.

[NaijaD]

For me it has to be Floyd Mayweather hands down, he had a variety of ways to defend against punches and his defence also aged really well as a lot of the fighters on that list were a lot more hittable as they got older. Honestly Ali shouldn't be on that list in my opinion, his defence was too limited to be considered masterful, he had fast feet and good head movement in his younger days but as he aged he really wasn't hard to find.

Floyd had head movement, mastered the shoulder roll, pull counter......... I specifically remember in the Ortiz fight where he parried an Ortiz Jab with the point of his elbow and shot a straight right counter right on target, it was about as high level as you could get man.

[man down]

Mayweather

[NORMNEALON]

... ???

Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker
Muhammad "The Greatest" Ali
Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr.
Bernard "The Executioner/The Alien" Hopkins
James “Lights Out” Toney
Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux
Vasyl "Hi-Tech" Lomachenko
Willie "Will o' the Wisp" Pep
Ray "Sugar" Leonard
Sugar Ray Robinson
Gene "The Fighting Marine" Tunney
Henry "Homicide Hank" Armstrong
Tyson Fury...

Its blasphemous that NIcholino Locche is not on this list .

[The plunger man]

Wilfredo Benitez is one of if the greatest defensive fighter off all time and I am surprised he did even make your list , Leonard was defensive yes but he also took shots to give them , same as Robinson.
If we talk defence we talk defence benny leonard , Willie pep , Benitez and mayweather no one else comes close

[Tatabanya]

Father Time is a cherry picker. Always waiting on fighters to get old

I'll be damned if you are less than right!

[Tatabanya]

Roy Jones Jr in his prime was next to untouchable. And - get this - Manos De Piedra had incredible defensive skills and reflexes when he was young.

[Legends456]

I’d have to go with Pernell Whitaker. Floyd the Great basically did what he did, but unlike him he wasn’t screwed over by the establishment. Pernell Whitaker was, in my opinion, every bit as good as Floyd and probably better, and most importantly, he did it before TMT.

[blitted_master]

Floyd was a great defensive wizard, absolutely. The shame of his career is that he was just as defensive and cunning in picking his opponents. Once they began to slip is when he considered them. He did not beat any great fighter at the peak of their career. He's similar to another great undefeated fighter in this regard, Rocky Marciano.

[NaijaD]

Floyd was a great defensive wizard, absolutely. The shame of his career is that he was just as defensive and cunning in picking his opponents. Once they began to slip is when he considered them. He did not beat any great fighter at the peak of their career. He's similar to another great undefeated fighter in this regard, Rocky Marciano.

Really comparing Mayweather’s resume to Marciano’s??

Come on man