Fighters with awkward styles that were effective.

I'd add Pac, but to me Manny was always overrated, at least when he got to 147. He was obviously on HGH and once his athleticism began to fade, he too fell off.

 

Was pbf obviously on hgh? Who else?

 

Fury , Vitali.

 

PBF was probably on it too.

 

Agreed

 

Plus that whole "missing sample" ordeal that occurred after the Pac fight stinks to high heaven for me.

 

Irish always makes really good points .

Froch is probably the sort of guy who opens tins with a knife and opens bottles with tin opener.

It works for him, and he doesn't care.

It's a sort of "boxing by numbers" for Froch.

He had unusually long arms for a guy of his height and yet fought small most of the time, he wasn't a jabber,instead he would shuffle and lead with his left hook, essentially a no-no for guys as bad as him,and then when he had the other guy looking for the wide looping shots, he'd start jabbing and throwing uppercuts from the outside.

Froch's basically the antithesis of any sort of boxing technique

 

Wow. Rewatching pac/pbf.. forgot how good a round pac had in the fourth

 

Fury style is not ankward. He fights in a relatively classic way. The thing that make him hard to beat is that he's so big and loose.

Louise fit the bill

 

That's a weird perspective. I feel the opposite way. Falling off a cliff is Roy after his athleticism faded.

Manny surprised me and still performed ridiculously well after his athleticism dropped, being able to fall back on his underrated boxing ability and craftiness. Once he hit his mid 30's, he started to outbox people rather than overwhelm them. Good fighters, and bigger fighters too.

Pacquiao has become underrated. Unbelievable fighter, who achieved something simply unprecedented - a former flyweight slapping around welterweights like heavybags.

He probably belongs on the list too. He is not the most awkward guy, but he certainly has a very unique style.

 

I feel Pac was very good at 126 through 140. But he was CLEARLY on the juice at 147 and even at that, matched VERY carefully.

If anything, Manny is overrated because I've seen tons of instances were it's being argued on different social media that he's have beaten not only the whole 90s group of welterweights (He wouldn't), but also the 80s group of elite welters as that's just overrating Manny.

He fought fighters at catch weights with shady hydration clauses and again, was clearly on the stuff.

A sure fire hall of famer. But overrated nonetheless.

 

Carlos Monzon
Vitali Kiltschko
Naseem Hamed
Carl Froch
Michael Spinks
Rocky Marciano

Tim Bradley’s style was always kind of awkward and weird to me. I can’t even describe his style.

 

Chris Byrd

Paul Spadafora

Jorge Paez