List your top 3, no order required. Here are my 3, based on the question and not to do with whether I like the boxer or not. DeGale Mayweather jr JMM
JMM & Floyd are the obvious selections. Since Toney isn't really active anymore, I'll go with Nonito Donaire after the first two.
Donaire Martinez Bute I think they're the most impressive exponents of counter punching around at the moment. To me Marquez is just a really, beautifully sound boxer-puncher (along with Dmitry Pirog), not really a pure bred counter puncher. Floyd isn't a boxer anymore.
Not really tbh. I don't like mayweather, but appreciate his skills. Lol, *counter punching style i mean.
To me these labels can be really misleading. I don't see any major similarities in the style of Marquez and 00's Hopkins say. I see none at all between Toney and De Gale. I know some think compubox is the work of the devil but it has it's uses. Guy's like DeGale, Hopkins, Jones, whitaker, Jones & Floyd all have something in common. They limit the output of their opponent almost every time through their defensive ability and ability to make a guy pay on the back of that. The also throw at a low rate themselves. I think that can be grouped as a style. We can call it counter punching if we want, or the 'low output' style if we like, but I think the numbers'll show it doesn't really have much in common with what Toney or Marquez do, stylistically. I don't think either of them is really a counter puncher.
I don't even know what the term means, tbh :: If James Toney, who regularly threw north of 70 shots and had guys like Jirov & Charles Williams throw 100 shots a round at him is the same style as Floyd Mayweather & Bernard Hopkins I'm totally confused as to what colour the sky is.
Jones wasn't a counter puncher in the classic sense. Jones usually went on the attack and dazzled with speed (hand, foot and upper body) and power. Mayweather and Marquez, for example, tend to wait for their opponents to lead (or anticipate their moves) and then make them pay. They are classic counterpunchers.
Also - what people do with their feet/the geography of the ring can be misleading. Some lead-volume punchers move around the ring (Calzaghe/welter Pac, Ray Robinson); some reactive guys come forward (Winky, Curry, young Jones). I think trying to define 'counter puncher' would probably be a good thread topic, actually. To me the key variables is your punch out put/your styles effect on your opponents output.
Right, Kirkland is the opposite of a counter puncher. The guy throws 85 punches a round, coming forward incessantly. He's a swarmer. *maybe you're joking, sorry. Im in a bit of a humourless, autistic mood ::
