4 Elite boxers who throw multi punch boxing combinations

The greatest boxers throughout history have always trained harder than their contemporaries, combining superlative talent with a prodigious work ethic. During a career littered with title wins, Floyd Mayweather Jnr offered a wide variety of boxing punches, often throwing three punch boxing flurries one after another, to negate his opponent’s offensive capabilities.

Going for late night runs and engaging in 15-round sparring sessions, Floyd’s multiple punches workout sessions were often taken after hours of rigorous bag and pad work.

Floyd’s great rival Manny Pacquiao also took part in a strict training regime to prolong his time at the top. Pacquiao arrived in America from the Philippines as a relative unknown. He quickly signed a management contract with Murad Muhammad of M & M Sports and teamed up with top American trainer Freddie Roach. Beating well-established fighters like Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales, the ‘Pac Man’ slowly but surely ascended to the pinnacle of the sport.

One of the main assets in the pound-for-pound king’s arsenal was his ferocious hand speed. In all of the aforementioned bouts Pacquiao rained his opponents with multi punch boxing combinations from all angles. Manny’s speed was too much to deal with as one-time victim David Diaz explained to HBO boxing interviewer Jim Lampley straight after their bout: “He was just too fast...fast, fast, fast. I thought at times Freddie was in there hitting me as well.”

Widely regarded as the greatest heavyweight of all time, and one of the greatest of any weight class, Muhammad Ali was fast with his insults to opponents but faster with his hands and feet.

 In his biggest fights he faced the likes of Joe Frazier, Ken Norton and of course George Foreman in the famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. Ali showed a fine pugilistic brain and excellent strategic thinking to defuse the hard-hitting style of Foreman with consistent two punch boxing combinations.

As Foreman leaned in with power punches and a notable physical strength advantage, Ali adopted the now-infamous rope-a-dope tactic and picked off his foe with flashy punch combos until Foreman eventually fell.

Speaking of power, nobody in modern day boxing punches harder than Gennady Golovkin.

The Kazakhstan fighter, known in most circles as GGG, went on a 23-fight knockout run that only ended when Brooklyn’s Danny Jacobs took him the distance in their recent middleweight unification bout. Boxers on the receiving end of punches workout quickly how to avoid the big shots and Golovkin’s defence is often underrated. Similarly to Ali, Golovkin would throw the classic two punch boxing combination - lead left jab with a right hand in behind.

Like all of the fighters mentioned, GGG trains hard to fight easy as the old boxing adage goes.