Friday Fun - Build Your Boxer

Just a light, casual article for a Friday morning, and something that occurred relatively regularly on the old 606. Simply build your ultimate boxer based on a combination of the below categories, and likewise, build your worst boxer. Cheers!

Head movement -
Defence -
Effective aggression -
Right hook -
Left hook -
Uppercut -
Jab -
Footwork -
Chin -
Heart -
Hand speed -
Reflexes -
Finisher -
Ring entrance -

Here are a few shouts to get the ball rolling, not much thought gone into them, but a few names to get people thinking!

Best:

Head movement - Pernell Whittaker
Defence - Floyd Mayweather Jr
Effective aggression - Roberto Duran
Right hook - Earnie Shavers
Left hook - Joe Frazier
Uppercut - Lennox Lewis
Jab - Larry Holmes
Footwork - Sugar Ray Leonard
Chin - Oliver McCall
Heart - Michael Katsidis
Hand speed - Manny Pacquaio
Reflexes - Nicolino Locche
Finisher - Mike Tyson
Ring entrance - Naseem Hamed

Worst:

Head movement - Antonio Margarito
Defence - Michael Katsidis
Effective aggression - Audley Harrison
Right hook - Ivan Calderon
Left hook - Sven Ottke
Uppercut - Ricky Burns
Jab - Andre Berto
Footwork - Vitali Klitschko
Chin - James Kirkland
Heart - Victor Ortiz (though he has gone some way to redeeming himself)
Hand speed - Danny Williams
Reflexes - Antonio Margarito
Finisher - Paulie Malignaggi
Ring entrance - Monte Barrett

You should add trash talking to the list. (Toney).

Yeah there would be a few candidates for that one! Toney, Mayorga, Hopkins, even Naz in his heyday.

Head movement - joe Fraizer
Defence - Willie Pepp
Effective aggression - Mike Tyson
Right hook - Tommy Hearns
Left hook - Joe Fraizer
Uppercut - Rocky Marciano
Jab - Larry Holmes
Footwork - SRR
Chin - Harry Greb
Heart - Rocky Marciano
Hand speed - SRL
Reflexes - SRR
Finisher - Jack Johnson
Ring entrance - Vitali Klitchko

also id like to add best body attack if i could?

body attack- Micky Ward

Good call on Marciano for heart, and also Vitali for ring entrance, the fights might be dull as dishwater but my god they know how to put on an entrance that will excite the crowd and get them up for the fight! I plumped for Naz's entrance for the sheer arrogance and flamboyance of them, you could tell he was loving every minute of it, whereas Vitali/Wlads entrances are on a much more serious note.

id quite like to see Vitali come out on a magic carpet aswell! that would confuse the hell out of his opponent! I like Lennox's uppercut from your list, admitidley i forgot all about the power he had with it!

DoubleD22 wrote:Head movement - joe Fraizer
Defence - Willie Pepp
Effective aggression - Mike Tyson
Right hook - Tommy Hearns
Left hook - Joe Fraizer
Uppercut - Rocky Marciano
Jab - Larry Holmes
Footwork - SRR
Chin - Harry Greb
Heart - Rocky Marciano
Hand speed - SRL
Reflexes - SRR
Finisher - Jack Johnson
Ring entrance - Vitali Klitchko

also id like to add best body attack if i could?

body attack- Micky Ward

I'd go for Hagler for chin and Mike McCallum for body attack. Heart - Ali (10 rounds with a broken jaw against Norton). Footwork - Duran. Reflex - Wilfred Benitez.

Vitali on a magic carpet would be one amusing scene, would feel sorry if he asked some 'slaves' to carry him out on a throne as Naz once did!

Good shouts on Hagler for Chin and Ali for heart, Azania. Suppose work rate would have been another good category, possibly Greb/Pacquaio/Armstrong would have all been decent shouts there.

Head movement - Whitaker
Defence - FMJ
Effective aggression - Chavez
Right hook - Tyson
Left hook - DLH
Uppercut - Marciano (common one this'll be)
Jab - Quartey
Footwork - Ali
Chin - McCall
Heart - Katsidis
Hand speed - Judah (in his prime still the quickest i've seen)
Reflexes - RJJ
Finisher - Tyson
Ring entrance - Hatton (Bluemoon was always fun, didn't like the cockyness of Naz)

Fists of Fury wrote:Vitali on a magic carpet would be one amusing scene, would feel sorry if he asked some 'slaves' to carry him out on a throne as Naz once did!

Good shouts on Hagler for Chin and Ali for heart, Azania. Suppose work rate would have been another good category, possibly Greb/Pacquaio/Armstrong would have all been decent shouts there.

Lets not forget Aaron pryor for workrate.

coxy0001 wrote:Head movement - Whitaker
Defence - FMJ
Effective aggression - Chavez
Right hook - Tyson
Left hook - DLH
Uppercut - Marciano (common one this'll be)
Jab - Quartey
Footwork - Ali
Chin - McCall
Heart - Katsidis
Hand speed - Judah (in his prime still the quickest i've seen)
Reflexes - RJJ
Finisher - Tyson
Ring entrance - Hatton (Bluemoon was always fun, didn't like the cockyness of Naz)

Oscar's left hook was good, but Frazier's left hook was designed to decapitate.

Great call on RJJ for reflexes, not sure how that one hasn't been mentioned yet!

Yeah, Pryor is another that could be added to the mix, Az. Relentless.

Oscar's left hook was good, but Frazier's left hook was designed to decapitate.

Consider it a biased vote as he's an old favourite of mine.

And it was a ruddy brilliant left hook he possessed as well. Abiding memory of it is the 12th vs Quartey who he dropped badly with it

Head movement - Pernell Whitaker
Defence - Pernell Whitaker
Effective aggression - Duran
Right hook - Joe Louis
Left hook - Joe Frazier
Uppercut - Mike Tyson, also like Walcott's
Jab - Tommy Hearns
Footwork - no idea.
Chin - McCall
Heart - Ali
Hand speed - Meldrick Taylor
Reflexes - Pernell Whitaker
Finisher - Ray Leonard
Ring entrance - Naz

Head movement - Whittaker
Defence - Pep
Effective aggression - Duran
Right cross - Hearns
Left hook - Dempsey
Uppercut - Foreman
Jab - Liston
Footwork - Ali
Chin - Lamotta
Heart - Frazier
Hand speed - Ali
Reflexes - Whittaker
Finisher - Ray Leonard
Ring entrance - Anything but those god awful modern entrances. I don't know how they can do all that trash without being embarresed. Yeah nice entrance Naz, maybe if you'd been training instead of poncing around Barrera woulnd't have spanked your ass quite so badly. Don't get me started on the bloody Klitchkos and Flip Haye v Flip Harrison!!!!

Ring entrance - John L Sullivan.

Tyson's entrances were menacing. No frills. Just him in his shorts, no socks and an icy stare. I remember Bruno crossing himself zillions of times when tyson was walking in.

Head movement - Frazier
Defence - Roy Jones Jnr
Effective aggression - Duran/Chavez
Right hook - Tyson
Left hook - Frazier
Uppercut - Tyson
Jab - Hearns/Holmes
Footwork - Ali
Chin - Hagler
Heart - Every boxer bar Audley
Hand speed - Judah
Reflexes - Benitez
Finisher - Tyson
Ring entrance - Naz.

Body punch - McCallum and Pintor

Head movement - Pernell Whittaker
Defence - Willie Pep
Effective aggression - Roberto Duran
Right hook - Mike Tyson
Left hook - Joe Frasier
Uppercut - Rocky Marciano
Jab - Larry Homles
Footwork - Ray Robinson
Chin - Jake La Motta
Heart - Jake La Motta
Hand speed - Zab Judah (prime)
Reflexes - Floyd Mayweather Jnr
Finisher - Mike Tyson
Ring entrance - Prince Naseem Hamed

Head movement - Pernell Whitaker
Defence - Floyd Mayweather
Effective aggression - Duran
Right hook - Mike Tyson
Left hook - Frazier
Uppercut - Tyson fury, Foreman
Jab - Holmes
Footwork - SRL
Chin - McCall
Heart - Ali
Hand speed - RJJ
Reflexes - Mayweather
Finisher - Mike Tyson
Ring entrance - Naz

WHU_Champo_League_in_7Yrs wrote:Head movement - Pernell Whitaker
Defence - Floyd Mayweather
Effective aggression - Duran
Right hook - Mike Tyson
Left hook - Frazier
Uppercut - Tyson fury, Foreman
Jab - Holmes
Footwork - SRL
Chin - McCall
Heart - Ali
Hand speed - RJJ
Reflexes - Mayweather
Finisher - Mike Tyson
Ring entrance - Naz

WTF?

prettyboykev wrote:WTF?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxPO_Z57xg

Scottrf wrote:

prettyboykev wrote:WTF?

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Forgot about that.

azania wrote:Tyson's entrances were menacing. No frills. Just him in his shorts, no socks and an icy stare. I remember Bruno crossing himself zillions of times when tyson was walking in.

Exactly!

Head movement - Mike Tyson (PRIME)
Defence - Willie Pep
Effective aggression - Henry Armstrong
Right hook - Joe Louis
Left hook - Joe Frazier
Uppercut - Lennox Lewis
Jab - Larry Holmes
Footwork - Mohammed Ali
Chin - George Chuvalo
Heart - Micheal Katsidis
Hand speed - Manny pacqiauo
Reflexes - Roy Jones Jr
Finisher - Mike Tyson
Ring entrance - Naseem Hamed