Best/Favorite Highly Skilled/Technical Fights

[p4pking]

Yea great thread and good calls. Not quite up there and won't be a popular one to add, but I really enjoy Floyd vs Canelo. It's easy to dismiss the ginger because he probably didn't win a round and barely connected, but it's only because he was always that step to slow, what he was actually trying to do technically was pretty neat. It was really a masterpiece from Floyd to have never gotten tagged or bothered in that fight considering everything, imo.

[Sleepwalker]

Paul Williams/Sergio Martinez I

I don't believe either fighter won 2 consecutive rounds. Heck of a fight to end the decade (December 2009).

[TitoFan]

Yea great thread and good calls. Not quite up there and won't be a popular one to add, but I really enjoy Floyd vs Canelo. It's easy to dismiss the ginger because he probably didn't win a round and barely connected, but it's only because he was always that step to slow, what he was actually trying to do technically was pretty neat. It was really a masterpiece from Floyd to have never gotten tagged or bothered in that fight considering everything, imo.

I'm gonna vehemently disagree with this and of course it's going to sound like just more antagonism, but c'est la vie. The thread title includes the words "highly skilled/technical fights". Forgive me for chuckling but.... you're not seriously including Canelo's shutout loss to Floyd in that list. You said it yourself. Ginger didn't win a round. So why the contradiction? It lessens/discredits all the hundreds if not thousands of true boxers that have engaged in pure boxing matches. Some of which have been mentioned here. Canelo did not belong in the same ring with Floyd, and that was borne out from the very beginning. Let's give Canelo the credit he deserves for being a puncher..... for having a good chin.... for being tough. But pleeeeease do not put him anywhere near the phrase highly skilled and technical fights. Now if this warrants another hate PM from you, so be it. I'm not going to stand idly by and read your incomprehensible crap.

[p4pking]

Well good evening to you as well! Canelo is a skilled boxer.. he wouldn't have just beat Cotto if he wasn't. I said it wouldn't be popular, and I realize there was no two way action in the fight. I simply feel it was a masterclass from Floyd to have not gotten tagged and won every round, as he was facing a very competent boxer with a lot of size on him. It's one of his best performances and probably the last great one, that's all.

[Master]

Yea great thread and good calls. Not quite up there and won't be a popular one to add, but I really enjoy Floyd vs Canelo. It's easy to dismiss the ginger because he probably didn't win a round and barely connected, but it's only because he was always that step to slow, what he was actually trying to do technically was pretty neat. It was really a masterpiece from Floyd to have never gotten tagged or bothered in that fight considering everything, imo.

I'm gonna vehemently disagree with this and of course it's going to sound like just more antagonism, but c'est la vie. The thread title includes the words "highly skilled/technical fights". Forgive me for chuckling but.... you're not seriously including Canelo's shutout loss to Floyd in that list. You said it yourself. Ginger didn't win a round. So why the contradiction? It lessens/discredits all the hundreds if not thousands of true boxers that have engaged in pure boxing matches. Some of which have been mentioned here. Canelo did not belong in the same ring with Floyd, and that was borne out from the very beginning. Let's give Canelo the credit he deserves for being a puncher..... for having a good chin.... for being tough. But pleeeeease do not put him anywhere near the phrase highly skilled and technical fights. Now if this warrants another hate PM from you, so be it. I'm not going to stand idly by and read your incomprehensible crap.

Floyd the mother fuker was flawless against Canelo. Floyd was flawless after being rocked twice by Mosely as well and I hate to even write it.

[TitoFan]

Well good evening to you as well! Canelo is a skilled boxer.. he wouldn't have just beat Cotto if he wasn't. I said it wouldn't be popular, and I realize there was no two way action in the fight. I simply feel it was a masterclass from Floyd to have not gotten tagged and won every round, as he was facing a very competent boxer with a lot of size on him. It's one of his best performances and probably the last great one, that's all.

You know.... I saw some of the exchanges between Cotto and Canelo, even in slow-mo..... and I must say I was pleasantly surprised at some of Canelo's improved boxing skills. I saw him avoiding some of Cotto's punches in a very skillful manner. So improved he has. I still think the biggest factor between Cotto and Canelo was the difference in size. It was there for the fight, and would be there for a rematch. Against Floyd.... I'll stick to my previous opinion. Canelo had no business in the ring with Floyd and I said as much before the fight. The actual fight only confirmed my thoughts. Did Floyd put on a flawless performance? Yes he did. It was obvious he had to. There was no way he was going to put a dent on Canelo's chin, Canelo being the much bigger man and having that very good chin. For that fight, however, Canelo was just a plodding, much slower puncher.... trying to catch Floyd with a lucky shot. So for me the fight does not qualify for this thread. If fact, speaking again of Cotto-Canelo..... I'd put THAT fight in this thread instead of the Floyd shutout win.