from my mind i can think of people like kessler and mayweather, very different but very technical, along with winky wright. are they the top 3? who else is up there? just wondering
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from my mind i can think of people like kessler and mayweather, very different but very technical, along with winky wright. are they the top 3? who else is up there? just wondering
Maybe at this point he's a little too technical for his own good ;) Bernard Hopkins,blueprint for a tactical master.
Juan M. Marquez as well. pleasure to watch practice his craft.
Hopkins used to be technical, now he is furthest thing from it.. He throws his right looking at the ground, he doesn't use his jab at all, he keeps his hands down a lot and just still amazingly uses reflexes to avoid a lot of punches. He has all the little tricky moves, but he is technical especially in how he looks down when he throws his right hand, and then he leads in with his head. Hopkins is tactical.
As for technical fighters...
I think Cotto is the blueprint puncher-boxer fighter. He keeps his hands up or when he does he is hiding behind his front shoulder. He goes to the body, he throws every punch well, he throws combinations well. His defense has really improved.
Mayweather is still a technical good.
OScar still has really good technique
Malignagi or whatever his name still has great technique
Spinks still has great technique
Zab Judah does as well, its just he doesn't throw enough when he is in trouble, and he isn't the best off the ropes.
Wladimir Klitschko is an excellent technical fighter.
Ivan Calderon
Joan Guzman
Chad Dawson
there are a whole punch of guys.
Marquez brothers, Jorge Linares, Joan Guzman and Ivan Calderon are some of my favourites.
Juan Manuel Marquez
Wladimir Klitschko
Bernard Hopkins
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Steve Molitor
Ivan Calderon
Joan Guzman
Rafael Marquez
Gerry Penalosa
Chad Dawson
Mikkel Kessler
Just to name a few.
Good call on Molitor. He impressed me in his last fight against Castillo. Excellent counterpunching, and also very good footwork, the way he shifted position after throwing a punch or combo. He seems to be getting better each time out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ice Cold Boxing
PBF, Marquez bros, Linares, Mijares, N. Donaire, Guzman, Penalosa, Calzaghe, Kessler, Dela Hoya, P. Williams.
Hopkins is the blueprint for a technical boxer. He's not looking down when he throws the righthand. he keeps his chin tucked but his eyes are up. it's a philly thing. Vernon Forrest isn't half bad either.
it's hard for me to give a top 5 but off the top of my head it might look like
hopkins
mayweather
winky
forrest
toney
i've only seen linares once but he put on show.
you wanna talk about bad habits than cory spinks is your guy.
lets add cory spinks
WLad
Tarver
Paullie
Campbell
Cory Spinks goes straight back with his hands down and crosses his feet. i like cory but that shit pisses me off.
I'll go with Marquez as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli Surfs 'Nawlins
Ay you still alive?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Big' (Yoits)Dan McCarthy
Nice listQuote:
Originally Posted by Ice Cold Boxing
hopkins
mayweather jr
guzman
Interesting picks, all guys who keep a low left and most of the time and use a lot of shoulder roll. To be representative of all styles, if I had to take three, I'd pick Mayweather (roll and counter style), Oscar (classic technique is still perfect), and JMM (overall complete technical boxer).Quote:
Originally Posted by ds91
Cory has afew bad habbits yeah but you can see he is a natural and it comes effortlessly to him . I think he was born to box like that .Quote:
Originally Posted by 'The Boxer'
He can have lapses in concentration like in the 2nd Judah fight but when he is focused he is technically brilliant . You could show him to anyone who wants to know how to box and they could study his movemnt which looks like he is on iceskates sometimes the way he gluides roudn the ring . Not much pop in his punches but he turns his shoulders with his shots , brilliantly quick reflexes and although some consider him to be a bore he is actually a master of the sweet science .
He was certainly one of the 1st I thought of when they mentioned " top technical boxers " along with Floyd , Judah , Marco Antonio Barrera , Hopkins and Winky .
All these lists and only 1 mention of Mijares... :( (Great call Julius)
Champs
JMM
PBF
Mijares
Calderon
Guzman
BCD
Paulie
Wladdy
Hasegawa
Luevano
Linares
Niida
Narvaez
Nonito
Oleydong
Prospects/Contenders
Enoki
Gamboa
Alexander
Inkin
Yoan
Povetkin
Bradley
Lamont Peterson
Khan
Roman Martinez
Roman Gonzalez
Thompson (Vastly overlooked Heavy)