Underrated defensive fighters

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Harold Brazier and Ayub Kalule are two fighters who are were very adept defensively, though not neccesarily underrated bot moreso overlooked. Brazier was a master of the shell and Kalule was excellent in slipping and blocking punches.

I was going to mention Brazier. I really liked watching him fight and I would say he is one of the better fighters that never won a title. I thought he was really great, but just lacked the one big fight that got him that title.

His war with Mayweather was amazing and typified his career and title shots. Really close fights against very good fighters that he just lost, or just won depending on your opinion.

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Young Griffo, the Aussie. Very few know who this guy is, but he is probably one of the most naturally brilliant defensive fighters ever. Some say easily better than Pep.

One of those that say so was Joe Gans who said that Griffo was easily the greatest defensive boxer that ever lived. He also said he got beaten quite easily by him even though he was fat and lazy and at the end of his career while Gans was in his prime.

Many others that saw him also said he was by far the most naturally gifted fighter they had ever seen, and easily the best defensive boxer.

Just about every great fighter he faced, and there were many, said he was the greatest by far. Most also said he was fat, and shockingly out of shape and that if he wasn't an alcoholic could easily have been the best fighter to ever live.

Jack McCauliffe, the undefeated champion was given the worst beating (not so much of a beating, but that he was simply unable to land anything at all while getting pasted left, right and center) of his life, but the ref awarded McAuliffe the decision anyway, and was nearly beaten up himself by the shocked crowd. Sad, but he was often given draws in fights he won quite easily against the better known, more popular Americans he fought.

Supposedly he had easily beaten fighters like Joe Gans, George Dixon, Jack McAuliffe, Kid Lavigne, Billy Murphy, Frank Erne (who beat Joe Gans by KO for the LW title and was no bother for Griffo at all who quite literally played with him for the bout), Jack Daly, and many others.

One of the most underrated and little known geniuses of the sport to have ever fought. He made some of the greatest technicians look amateur, and even they said so too!

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Mike Tyson. I think he is overated as hell. But not when it came to his defense, his head movement was incredible at times and that really what gave him a chance to throw his left hook

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joe fraizer had some good d....hell he blocked SOME of foremen punches