Best battlers?
Best safe battlers?
For me Simoncelli (regularly) and Rossi (occasionally) , took it too far, but for some , they would win the prize. Pedrosa is a bit weak in this area, but is improving.
Stoner and Lorenzo are currently, in my opinion, the best (safe) battlers. Rossi can be more desperate, but at a risk of being labelled dirty. Lorenzo used to be like this ,but has become a safe but serious competitor. To my knowledge, Stoner has always been pretty safe with his battling/ passing, but did a pretty tough pass on Hayden in one of the latter races of the year.