Linares is pleasure to watch on outside with shifts and counter combos. Not a purist at all but highly skilled thinking boxer. Lara but he too can fight with a chip on his shoulder. Guess you can even add Foreman as 'pure' boxer, just not a great one. Very few pure boxers when speaking about constant back foot and mostly defensive minded. Algieri thought he was. Wlad of course. Chad Dawson up until Saturday night. There can be a negative connotation when talkin purist boxers but even the best have changed their stripes from time to time and pushed there advantages no matter how dominate. And the ones who don't and coast on leads..or simply 'defend' to survive..those are the ones we hope are caught by some live underdog .