Best Footwork of All Time

[The plunger man]

Loma’s footwork is amazing , sugar ray leonards was special and so was Roy Jones....old timers benny leonard and Willie pep

[A-Wolf]

I agree with you to an extent. Tyson Fury put it quite well in a recent interview: "Your legs will get into trouble, and your legs will get you out of trouble." However, all else being equal I'd favour a fighter with smooth footwork over a fighter with choppy footwork (if that makes any sense!?). And yeah, Floyd definitely had great footwork; I like his foot feints, he used them to great effect. You watch Floyd's body, his trunk seems to stay relatively static, with his feet moving under him, sliding him around the ring

I'd suggest that you seem to be working backwards by conflating good footwork with the ability to control distance. That cannot be the whole story. Surely good footwork involves good balance and potential to move off in any direction, amongst other things. That is, someone could theoretically have great footwork but not be able to control distance very well. Indeed, that is what you see with beginners sometimes, if they have prior experience with dance or something like this. The way I am thinking about it is that good footwork confers advantages by allowing easier control of the distance, rather than assuming that good control of distance implies good footwork. It's a moot point for the most part, since these two things are practically synonymous in well-developed fighters, but I just thought I'd explain why it might seem like we disagree here when we probably agree more than you might've realised.

You don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about, do you?

[jaded]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Sugar Ray Robinson. He used to earn money dancing for strangers in Times Square when he was a kid.

[llll]

That's not even remotely difficult to answer.

If you want to see the best footwork of all time, then go to youtube and type "Floyd Mayweather"

[llll]

From what I've seen. Gotta rank Pacquiao and Lomachenko in 1 and 2

You didn't see Mayweather vs Pacquiao?

[llll]

Thraxox If pacquiao has the best footwork you've ever seen...

Then why did an old floyd mayweather completely dominate pacquiao in terms of positioning

[NORMNEALON]

From what I've seen. Gotta rank Pacquiao and Lomachenko in 1 and 2

Out of active fighters Loma for sure imo .....manny has effective footwork but it can be very sloppy . He crosses his feet alot and the best footwork of all time isnt going to belong to any fighter who does that ( as great as manny is he doesnt have goat feet , altho he is still very effective ).

[Thraxox]

Thraxox If pacquiao has the best footwork you've ever seen...

Then why did an old floyd mayweather completely dominate pacquiao in terms of positioning

Then we have different viewpoints on how you and I assesed the fights because I didnt see any domination of anysort in that fight.

[Thraxox]

You didn't see Mayweather vs Pacquiao?

In a fight were Floyd got his head snapped by counter straights left all night? Yes I saw the fight.

Floyd won that fight by just doing enough to win the rounds that he needed to win. It wasnt a domination in any stretch of the imagination.

[BoomBapTrap]

Floyd’s foot worked on Josie Harris that’s for sure. He kicked the poo out of his children’s mother right in front of them! Stand up fella Floyd is.