What is a "textbook" boxer?

[estbn]

Excuse my ignorance, but what people mean when they say a boxer is a "textbook?

I know some english, but i don't know what they mean with that. I readed that of boxers like JM Marquez, Floyd Mayweather and Mario Kindelan.

thanks

[vein]

how does a book learn to box? does it have hands?

[Flicker Jab]

De La Hoya is the best example of any kind of textbook boxer. Mayweather is anything but...Lead right hands? Rolling to the left and then back to the right and coming up with a lead right uppercut? Yeah, that **** ain't textbook homeslice.

[ophqui]

i'd say cotto is closer to textbook than floyd. good body position, balance, moves his head but not too much. throws all his punches nicely

[krispy kreme]

A technically correct fighter, as someone mentioned, Cotto is a good example.

[lilevil]

Textbook means that they are fundimently sound.

[Kinetic Linking]

joe louis is considered the quintessential "textbook" fighter. Body turned to the side, hands up, chin down, body weight used in jab, cross and hook.

[sugarshanenas]

Alexis Arguello

[elchurro420]

JMM is a textbook boxer

[Spartacus Sully]

not like interesting like a story or something? more like reading a text book? maybe not