Modern outside fighters.

[Spicoli]

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 .

[p4pking]

I'm ripping off somebody or a couple of people who have posted on here primarily, but I feel like the terms out fighter and pure boxer are far too often considered mutually inclusive, where as someone who tends to fight inside is never considered it. Guys are often called "one dimensional" when they don't tend to box from the outside, even if they actually have a very nuanced skill set. If a guy can only box from long range, why is this seen as inherently more technical than a guy who is masterful on the inside? Guys like Loma, Mayweather, Roman Gonzales are pure boxers, because they have exceptional understanding of range and the ability to fight in all quarters, depending on what gives them the best chance to win and avoid punishment. I'd say its the true ability to adapt that makes someone a pure boxer.