Who comes close to being a "perfect fighter?"

[Andre]

You guys have covered most of them Alexi A, R Lopez recently etc.

A few Ive only read about that may fit the bill;

Tough times for some divisions!
Some would say Willie pep but really although an amazing technician Saddler a fighter with a large reach had his measure more than once,so to call Pep in as a perfect fighter its like trying to call Barrera or Moralles into line above the other,you cant do it ,well I cant.


Vincente Salvidar from Mexico took the featherweight crown in 64 off of Ramos ,Sugar Ramos from Cuba who had held the title after stopping and unfortunatley ending the life of Davey Moore.
Anyway Salvidar defended it eight times retired unbeaten.Then he comes back in 1970 abd fights a cuban champion and also Johhny Famechon who had the title twice from the fighting HArada. And wins it again then retires!
(Who was that masked man)





Gene Tunney well you know that story,there are some detractors / via the human windmill Harry Creb.Creb Took Gene to the cleaners and outsmarted and out fought him. But to Genes credit he went away and worked out how to beat Harry which he did on four other occasions!


HArry Creb could easily fall into place here too, it was proven beyond doubt that he fought with only one eye for many many years against his opposition in thoise times that has to be perfect fighting.



Len Harvey, he was a small fly weight as a boy and has the distinction of fighting through all the weights!

He eventally fought for the British heavyweight title and gave away 13 kg or 29lb! to JAck Peterson who lost his first fight and the title to Len on that day
.Len soon went on and took the British Empire HEavyweight title form Canadian Larry Gains.

Then he lost both titles back to Peterson who won in 12 over a cut eye stoppage.

Then Len took the british version of the world light heavy title off Jock Mc avoy.
Len Harvey started pro in 1920, this bloke fought his way 'mostly successfully' through all the weights.His last fight was a come back after 3 years out of the rig and he was stopped for the first time in 133 fights some of the earlier fights 20 rounders!




Marcciano 49/0/0
Stopped 43 of them inside the distance at 5'10" and 13st 2Lbs !
you cant ignore that, for the tough times and era too, he must have been something special.




JAck Britton fought over 22 years from 1915 and fought 299 fights he have to be a great fighter to last that long in those times.Records say he was a fantastic counter boxer and classic boxer.

Rounds were longer and harder back then.