Fighters with the best offensive footwork

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    Strictly offensive footwork.

    The immediate ones who come to mind:

    Napoles
    Duran
    80s Tyson
    Chavez
    Prime Gomez
    Chocolatito
    Orlando Canizales
    Yuri Arbachakov

    Who else?
     
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    certainly lomachenko and jones jr must rank among these fellas
     
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    Roy broke many conventions of footwork but he also started something that Floyd emulated from him... circling counterclockwise against a southpaw toward their power hand.

    Puts the conventional fighter in danger, but also makes it easier to land on southpaws.

    Floyd did the same thing, probably inspired by Roy.
     
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    Pains me to say this as I hated watching him, and whilst I'm not putting him on an all-time list for it or anything, the one thing I did rate about Ricky Hatton was his footwork. It was excellent.
     
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    While Hatton wasnt on the level of any of the guys I listed, yeah, he did have good offensive footwork.
     
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    Rosario had really nice footwork
     
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    Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott SRR and Marcel Cerdan
     
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    Uh, pacquiao?
     
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    He did, which explains why he was hard to handle for two speed demons in Camacho and Davis.
     
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    Joe Frazier
    Joe Louis
    Shane Mosley
     
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    Loma has the best offensive footwork ever imo. I don't think he's all that as a fighter, but that footwork is something unique.seems like he's shifting between dimensions
     
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    Navarrete
     
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    Yeah, Navarette is right up there with Napoles and Duran in footwork...

    I see it...
     
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    You probably don't.
     
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    There was a guy named Willie Pep that was pretty good in this department
     
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    Fighting Harada.
     
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