Who is the best defensive boxer in boxing history?
Hitting is the easy half of boxing. These are the fighters who solved the other one.
1Floyd MayweatherBuilt fifty wins on the shoulder roll and finished with barely a mark on him.1000pts
2Winky WrightThe high guard that Felix Trinidad and Shane Mosley could not get through.574pts
3James ToneyCarried the shoulder roll up four weight divisions across twenty years.558pts
4Guillermo RigondeauxTwo-time Olympic champion whose defence made him almost impossible to book.447pts
5Sugar Ray RobinsonThe complete fighter, and the defensive model everyone after him copied.447pts
6Nicolino LoccheNicknamed The Untouchable for fighting entire rounds with his hands down.446pts
7Ezzard CharlesA light heavyweight technician who beat heavyweights by never being where they punched.446pts
8Andre WardControlled distance so precisely that opponents ran out of ideas by the middle rounds.378pts
9Willie PepReputed to have won a round without throwing a punch.378pts
10Pernell WhitakerMade world-class opponents miss so badly that judges struggled to score the rounds.298pts
11Vasiliy LomachenkoSteps to the side of opponents until they lose track of where he is.298pts
12Bernard HopkinsUsed range, timing and forty-nine years of ring craft to stay unhittable.203pts
13Muhammad AliAvoided punches by leaning back from them, which no trainer recommends and only he survived.0pts
14Wilfred BenitezWon a world title at 17 on reflexes alone.0pts
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The shoulder roll carried fifty wins, and Pacquiao does not appear on this list at all: https://youpick.best/articles/mayweather-vs-pacquiao-ranked
