Great fighters who could be frustrating to watch

[Maxmomer]

Floyd Patterson. Who else?

[mcvey]

Floyd Patterson. Who else?
Lennox Lewis and Carlos Monzon come to mind ,Lewis was often rather tentative to me ,and Monzon was workman like ,without being exciting,but both are great fighters Monzone especially so.

[Russell]

Emile Friggin' Griffith.

[bladerunner]

Wilfred Benitez.

[PhillyPhan69]

Sweet Pea
Camacho
PBF

[ChrisPontius]

Muhammad Ali.

[Thread Stealer]

Roberto Duran.

Sometimes he was lazy and disinterested, and some of his other fights were just ugly because of all the clinching (usually not his fault).

Before the KO, the Ray Lampkin fight was mostly unwatchable.

[Hatesrats]

Sweet Pea
Camacho
PBF
Exactly, let me add Michael Nunn to that list aswell...
It's not that I don't appreciate "Boxing" & the art of defense
just that sometimes fighter's like this tend to fall in love with tha "Slap & Paw" too much
and make an easy fight into a VERY long and boring matchup
sometimes even against an obviously outclassed opponent.

Nothing worse than A star with no Punching power fighting an outclassed opponent with chin of granite...:!:

[Thread Stealer]

James Toney

[Russell]

Nunn was the epitome of frustrating.

[mcvey]

Floyd Patterson. Who else?
As your post said great fighters ,I didnt include Errol Graham and Johnny Nelson ,but boy did they turn me off!

[wooz]

James Toney

:adminI find him exciting to watch.

[Thread Stealer]

:adminI find him exciting to watch.

I love watching him fight, but his sloth and gluttony can make it very frustrating to watch him and more so, be a fan of him.

[radianttwilight]

Oscar de la Hoya.

Nothing is more frustrating than watching a great fighter gas out at the end of every big fight (or run like he did against Trinidad) and lose.

[Hatesrats]

Let me also add..
Winky Wright & Bernard Hopkins to the list
Great fighter's but dragging styles.

[jc]

Muhammad Ali.

I think this is an obviosu choice, luckily he is remembered for his fine displays against Liston, Foreman, Frazier etc but many times he laboured his way to victories over lesser oponents. Thats the frustrating thing.

Fighters who fight to the level of the oposition are always frustrating, Eubank was famous for it, would struggle with the likes of Ray Close but go all out against Benn, Rochigianni etc.

Danny Williams is another, every time I see a scheduled fight i pray he has stayed of the pies and done a bit of running and nearly every time im left dissapointed. ok he isnt really a great but still frustrating.

[Vantage_West]

Exactly, let me add Michael Nunn to that list aswell...
It's not that I don't appreciate "Boxing" & the art of defense
just that sometimes fighter's like this tend to fall in love with tha "Slap & Paw" too much
and make an easy fight into a VERY long and boring matchup
sometimes even against an obviously outclassed opponent.

Nothing worse than A star with no Punching power fighting an outclassed opponent with chin of granite...:!:i felt nunn coudl punch harder than what people percive...but if he does or not doesnt matter...if your boxing your fightgin in a way to reduce the damage to yourself....staying far away from your opponant is not in any ways boxing. it's so pretencious.

[mcvey]

I think this is an obviosu choice, luckily he is remembered for his fine displays against Liston, Foreman, Frazier etc but many times he laboured his way to victories over lesser oponents. Thats the frustrating thing.

Fighters who fight to the level of the oposition are always frustrating, Eubank was famous for it, would struggle with the likes of Ray Close but go all out against Benn, Rochigianni etc.

Danny Williams is another, every time I see a scheduled fight i pray he has stayed of the pies and done a bit of running and nearly every time im left dissapointed. ok he isnt really a great but still frustrating.
True ,but great fighters?

[Bokaj]

I think this is an obviosu choice, luckily he is remembered for his fine displays against Liston, Foreman, Frazier etc but many times he laboured his way to victories over lesser oponents. Thats the frustrating thing.

But that was when he wasn't really great anymore. Up until 1975 I think he gave good value for the money, with some exceptions. Before the lay-off I think he always looked good.

[ChrisPontius]

I think this is an obviosu choice, luckily he is remembered for his fine displays against Liston, Foreman, Frazier etc but many times he laboured his way to victories over lesser oponents. Thats the frustrating thing.

Fighters who fight to the level of the oposition are always frustrating, Eubank was famous for it, would struggle with the likes of Ray Close but go all out against Benn, Rochigianni etc.

Danny Williams is another, every time I see a scheduled fight i pray he has stayed of the pies and done a bit of running and nearly every time im left dissapointed. ok he isnt really a great but still frustrating.

Danny Williams is pretty exciting to watch though. Well, Skelton and Harrison (outside of the rematch) don't really make for great fights, but outside of that he is always entertaining. Big punch, sloppy defence, weak chin but a fighting will like no one else guarantees that.

[The Funny Man 7]

Michael Nunn is the one here for me. The Starling and Barkley fights were awful.

[TommyV]

Winky. Superb techincal fighter but boring as hell.

[Coast]

Sweet Pea, Hopkins, Camacho by far-Macho Man??? Hated his image and personality, if he fought like it in the ring it might have been tolerable.

Old timers- Max Baer-boxed like an amature, didn't train, and his clowning was disrespetful to his opponents, Jack Sharkey (would look great in one fight and complete dogshit the next).

[groove]

But most posters know when a fighter was in his prime. All of Ali's boring performances was when he was past it. Big difference.