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I hesitated to include Niccolino Locche, since I just recently posted about him, and because IMO his style is downright beautiful, but at the risk of repeating myself:



Not unlike Willie Pep in his prime, well except for the chain-smoking thing.
And with a lot less energy expended.
 
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Manning Galloway’s victories against Pat Barrett and Ricardo Williams Jr. were truly impressive. His herky-jerky style and ability to outsmart his opponents showcased his skills and talent in the ring. He definitely left a lasting impact on the boxing world.
Come on now you are definitely using ChatGpt to write your posts.
As for Manning Galloway leaving a lasting impact, only people who remember him are boxing nerds like me. I highly doubt he was even known in his hometown when was a WBO champ.
 
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I hesitated to include Niccolino Locche, since I just recently posted about him, and because IMO his style is downright beautiful, but at the risk of repeating myself:



Not unlike Willie Pep in his prime, well except for the chain-smoking thing.
And with a lot less energy expended.
He don’t belong in this thread. Maybe in a thread for boxers with remarkable reflexes, super cool defensive skills.
But not in the ugly styles bunch.
 
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Emmanuel Augustus has become a hit on Youtube. Somebody did a compilation of clips labelled his style as being "Drunken Master" the video now has a 1million+ views.
Emmanuel Augustus has become a YouTube Super Star, the drunken master video now has 12 million views and counting.

Emmanuel got robbed often during his prime, by judges who did not appreciate his style.

This guy would have been a phenomenon in the age of Social Media.
 
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Emmanuel Augustus has become a YouTube Super Star, the drunken master video now has 12 million views and counting.

Emmanuel got robbed often during his prime, by judges who did not appreciate his style.

This guy would have been a phenomenon in the age of Social Media.

Locche was one of the first I thought of. He was one of the best at defensive movements to get opponents to swing and hit only air. He was definitely a hard fighter to hit and had a pretty awkward style. His record speaks for itself as to his ability in the ring with him going 117-4-14 in his career. He couldn't punch his way out of a wet paper bag though, with only 14 wins coming by way of KO out of 135 bouts.

Hell, he made Willie Pep look like a KO king in comparison with Pep getting 65 KO's in 241 bouts.

As for his chain smoking, I didn't know that until I watched some videos of him in training and how he hated to train so he smoked to keep his weight down. How he did that and still went the distance so many times in his long career is truly amazing.
 
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