Good list although Roy to me was more of a freakish athlete.
I'd add Emille Griffith on there too. And Mike Tyson. Plus Sugar Ray Robinson.
Another that may deserve to be on there. I don't know if he had the heart for it or the trainability but he was certainly very talented.
I always thought hamed was overrated, he had some redeeming qualities, one was his heart, the other was that freakish power, but the way he fought, that ingle style, I never thought was sound, and it was all wrong for a guy who was already short and stubby for his division. You don't want to be leaning all over the place with your hands down when you're that short.
Fair enough if you think that. I personally think he was a very gifted fighter. He had great reflexes but Barrera overcame that with great timing, distance management plus disciplined combination punching. Nas also had an amazing chin. He was never once rocked in any of his fights and Barrera landed some bombs on him.
he got rocked in just about every fight, i was convinced that he'd lose as soon as he met a real pro, and he did. That Ingle/Graham style will probably die out, it's not something that really works for anyone who wants to be great.
I go back and forth on Roy, i still don't know what to make of him. Is he any faster than many, many fighters I've seen? Hell no, although at middleweight, he was about as good a puncher as you'd want to see. I watch his old fights when i have time and try to figure out how he did so well, one of the main reasons was guys just stopped trying and stopped throwing punches. you can't do anything if you don't throw punches. Roy learned this later on in his later fights when he just didn't throw punches for whatever reason, against tarver in the third fight. you can't win if you don't throw. Not roy or anyone else.
He never got 'rocked' not once. He got floored numerous times and never looked more than just like he had a hurt ego. Show me ONE example where he was rocked....
you should already know if you've seen his fights. He was special, don't get me wrong, he'd probably be in my top ten all time puncher, well, certainly he would. He was fast but he wasn't going to be great with that style, and there was even silly talk by ingle that he'd go all the way up to middleweight, brendan ingle was a kooke, which isn't bad in and of itself, boxing is full of those but his style and the person he stole it from (Graham) didn't work.
