Most skillful fighter in boxing history? Who is he?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

from the fighters i have seen with my own eyes over 25 years, i gotta say floyd jr is the most complete fighter i have seen

Everything he does is fundamentally sound

Footwork,
punch accuracy
ring generalship
working off the jab
high guard
shoulder roll

The guy is simply off the charts in every category skill wise

[Holywarrior]

from the fighters i have seen with my own eyes over 25 years, i gotta say floyd jr is the most complete fighter i have seen

Everything he does is fundamentally sound

Footwork,
punch accuracy
ring generalship
working off the jab
high guard
shoulder roll

The guy is simply off the charts in every category skill wise

Very true. He does everything amazing. Prime Holyfield IMO is also very skilled

[IronDanHamza]

?? Not nearly enough footage to justify that.


I'd go Roy Jones.

Not enough footage? There's loads of footage.

I personally have over 20 fights of his. And there's probably more than that.

[MDPopescu]

tunney was another level from either one. tunney single handily created the art form of true technical boxing.

Dec 4th, 1935, Hollywood, CA — H.G. Wells, the noted British writer and novelist, Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion, and Charlie Chaplin (left to right), at the party in Hollywood given for Wells by Chaplin.

[Holywarrior]

Not enough footage? There's loads of footage.

I personally have over 20 fights of his. And there's probably more than that.

Great, me too. Which fight makes him look like the greatest?

[Ray Corso]

The most skilled fighter happens to be the Greatest fighter along with the being the "p4p most outstanding".
........Sugar Ray Robinson..........greatest Welter & Middleweight of all time.
Along with being the number one fighter in history!

[AlexKid]

The most skilled fighter happens to be the Greatest fighter along with the being the "p4p most outstanding".
........Sugar Ray Robinson..........greatest Welter & Middleweight of all time.
Along with being the number one fighter in history!

Thats your opinion Ray.

[IronDanHamza]

Great, me too. Which fight makes him look like the greatest?

You too? So what do you mean there's not enough footage then? You don't think over 20 fights is enough footage?

The Maxim fights one I like watching, a lot of tools on display in that fight. The Layne fights are good, Harold Johnson albeit a a fight he lost a lot of skills on display by both men, Johnson's another fighter who's up there with the most skilled I've seen.

His fights at Heavyweight he shows a lot of great skills, he's not really a heavyweight and was physically declining at the time but had the great skills to hang with the top guys there.

Can't even imagine if we had the Moore fights to see. Considered by all accounts he outboxed him comfortably three times.

What are you saying here that Charles isn't up there with the most skilled? I assume your original response was to say their isn't enough footage of Charles to support it but now you're saying that there is enough footage? Don't quite understand.

[Holywarrior]

You too? So what do you mean there's not enough footage then? You don't think over 20 fights is enough footage?

The Maxim fights one I like watching, a lot of tools on display in that fight. The Layne fights are good, Harold Johnson albeit a a fight he lost a lot of skills on display by both men, Johnson's another fighter who's up there with the most skilled I've seen.

His fights at Heavyweight he shows a lot of great skills, he's not really a heavyweight and was physically declining at the time but had the great skills to hang with the top guys there.

Can't even imagine if we had the Moore fights to see. Considered by all accounts he outboxed him comfortably three times.

What are you saying here that Charles isn't up there with the most skilled? I assume your original response was to say their isn't enough footage of Charles to support it but now you're saying that there is enough footage? Don't quite understand.

Did you not see my top 5 of boxers ever?

Charles was on the verge of dementia then at heavyweight he got beat.

There will never be a fight that convinces me he was the greatest

[IronDanHamza]

Did you not see my top 5 of boxers ever?

Charles was on the verge of dementia then at heavyweight he got beat.

There will never be a fight that convinces me he was the greatest

Vaguely but what's that got to do with this?

You're saying that there isn't enough footage to justify Charles, right? But now you're saying there is and you just don't agree?

There's no doubt in my mind that Charles one of the most skilled fighters I've seen and a lot of the footage on him is passed his prime.