Fighters today who have similar styles to fighters of the past.

[ICB]

Early Hopkins looks like a combination of Frazier/Early Witherspoon,good Frazier weave coming in,but then relentless Witherspoon inside pressure. Even through the Echols and even the Trinidad fight he does a quick Frazier weave to get in,and once he's there,relentless pressure
Since he moved up in weight,not so much.
Valuev oddly reminds me of Liston,the step out,deep breath and come again style
Holyfield used to make me think of a very dirty Patterson,the way he like to snipe and move

Now you just said Tim Witherspoon i thought of another example Tim Witherspoon/Ken Norton.

[Trainer Monkey]

Early Hopkins looks like a combination of Frazier/Early Witherspoon,good Frazier weave coming in,but then relentless Witherspoon inside pressure. Even through the Echols and even the Trinidad fight he does a quick Frazier weave to get in,and once he's there,relentless pressure
Since he moved up in weight,not so much.
Valuev oddly reminds me of Liston,the step out,deep breath and come again style
Holyfield used to make me think of a very dirty Patterson,the way he like to snipe and move

Now you just said Tim Witherspoon i thought of another example Tim Witherspoon/Ken Norton.

Thats a good one actually,they had that same ability to pressure,and neither were afraid to take shots coming

[Phil]

Tua-Fraizer
Ibeabuchi-Liston(probably the fact they were both scary fuckers )

[Trainer Monkey]

Tua-Fraizer
Ibeabuchi-Liston(probably the fact they were both scary fuckers )

Cause it wasnt because they started attaching thumbs,Im sorry the Liston eye gouge against Bert Whitehurst still cracks me up its so blatant

[RozzySean]

Hatton is more like Basilio than Duran or JCC.

Kat's fights like Gatti did later in his career. When Gatti was as young as Kats, he was still a boxer-puncher.

Young Holyfield was a lot like Paterson, very good call.

Tyson was has similarities to Frazier, but he relied less on the jab than Frazier to get inside.

Peak Riddick Bowe looked a lot like a bigger Joe Louis. Like Louis, he was a tall fighter who loves to bang inside, but he also, like Louis, possessed a great 1-2 and were killer from a distance.

[RozzySean]

Hatton doesn't have Basilio's chin. Floyd Mayweather would have never stopped Basilio. He might have beaten him, but he wouldn't KO him.

[rjj tszyu]

Even though they are not in the same weight class I always thought Kelly Pavlik reminded me of Joe Louis. Very basic boxing style, deadly puncher with both hands.

I disagree because Joe Louis was more of an infighter where as Kelly Pavlik likes to land his shots at mid distance i think Kelly Pavlik is like Carlos Monzon both are robotic and both rely on there jab/right hand combo.

Probably the most effective combo in boxing too. Kostya Tszyu was a master of the 1-2.

[Thread Stealer]

Margarito-Hagler

IMO, both tough stalkers with underrated skills.

They're really not much alike at all, besides having excellent chins.

Hagler was a terrific boxer puncher, very good technical skills, who could brawl, heavy-handed, solid parrying ability along with head movement, good foot movement.

Margarito is a slow stalker with a ridiculous workrate and ability to take shots, and who can throw from an assortment of angles. Although Steward had a point in saying that Tony's defense is better than often given credit for, that's still not saying much.

I've seen Margarito box at times and use the ring, but I really wasn't all too impressed with it. Hagler outboxed most of his opponents.

[Thread Stealer]

I see Hatton being more similar to a poor man's Duran than a poor man's Chavez. Chavez was a more methodical, deliberate and patient stalker. Duran could be that way, but more so in his younger years, came forward at a faster pace, like Hatton does. Hatton and Duran seem more unpredictable in their aggression. And unfortunately, both guys have too much clinching in their fights.

As expected, you see similarities in Floyd Mayweather Jr and Sr, and Roger. And a Mayweather Sr. fighter in Joan Guzman.

It was mentioned on another thread, but similarities exist between Marlon Starling and Joshua Clottey.

I don't really see that much style similarities in Katsidis and Gatti other than being entertaining white fighters who bleed and swell a lot.

[GAME]

Junior Witter - Herol Graham

[Master]

Junior Witter is more Johnny Nelson switch hitter Herol was mainly a southpaw but same Brendle Ingle camp and style, Ryan Rhodes and Naz.

By the same token Azumah Nelson = Ike Quartey = Alfred Kotey = Clottey.

[SaltyBacon]

paul williams - mark breland

[bradlee180]

Mike the Cannibal Tyson. Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey.

[Beanflicker]

I hate to sound like a jerk, but I disagree with SO many comparisons in this thread its unbelievable... particularily the one about Joe Frazier and Bernard Hopkins. I think the only similarities between those two is that they're both black, they're both from Philly and they both box(ed) for a living

[Beanflicker]

Ok I'll contribute, and of course people will probably disagree with me, but...

Yuriorkis Gamboa-Mike Tyson... just the way he quickly cuts off angles and closes the distance on opponents. He even does the Tyson "peek a boo" bobbing (see his last fight against that Al Seeger fella), and of course he has great handspeed and heavy hands.