Who Are Your Ten Favourite Fighters Ever.

[keithmoonhangover]

It's been asked before, but there are some newish people, so I thought I'd ask again.

For me, it's....

1. Stanley Ketchel
2. Larry Holmes
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Evander Holyfield
5. Jack Johnson
6. Mark Prince
7. Battling Siki
8. Julio Cesar Chavez
9. Sugar Ray Leonard
10. Henry Armstrong

[SaadOffTheDeck]

That looks like 10.

Hearns
Holyfield
Saad
Morales
Frazier

[keithmoonhangover]

That looks like 10.

Hearns
Holyfield
Saad
Morales
Frazier

Changed, just for you. I do apologise.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

That looks like 10.

Hearns
Holyfield
Saad
Morales
Frazier

Changed, just for you. I do apologise.

Duran
Howard Davis
Gushiken
Charles
Paul Williams

[Giancarlo]

Charlie Magri
Tony Sibson
Cornelius Boza Edwards
Alexis Arguello
Larry Holmes
John Conteh
Mathew Saad Muhammad
Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard
Thomas Hearns

[Jaywheel]

Frazier
Duran
Hagler
Charles
Castillo
Liston
Hearns
Arguello
Froch
Hilton jr

[witherspoon]

I'll try for 10,
Salvador Sanchez
Tim Witherspoon
Mike McCallum
Erik Morales
Marvin Hagler
Roberto Duran
Pernell Whitaker
Alexis Arguello
James Toney
Michael Carbajal
Ruben Olivares

[evrenb]

Carmen basilio
Kid gavilan
Ike williams
Frazier
Ali
Foreman
Marciano
Hagler
Tyson
Robinson

[keithmoonhangover]

Who are your top ten Il Duce?

[keithmoonhangover]

Who are your top ten Il Duce?

The Special '11'

* Kent Green
* Amos Johnson
* Percy Price
* Doug Jones
* Henry Cooper
* Joe Frazier
* Kenny Norton
* Roy Williams
* Antonio Inoki
* Larry Holmes
* Trevor Berbick

I believe they all have something in common.

Very good sir.

What about a proper list? Is Dempsey on there?

[Seamus]

Tough one, but off the top of my head at the moment.

Packey McFarland
Sugar Ray Leonard
Barry McGuigan
Muhammad Ali
Salvador Sanchez
Pernell Whitaker
Joe Calzaghe
Gene Tunney
Mike Gibbons
Marlon Starling

[ThatOne]

Ali
Leonard
Lewis
Foreman
DeLaHoya
Sugar Ray Robinson
Roy Jones Jr.
Michael Spinks
Jose Torres
Floyd Patterson

[keithmoonhangover]

Tough one, but off the top of my head at the moment.

Packey McFarland
Sugar Ray Leonard
Barry McGuigan
Muhammad Ali
Salvador Sanchez
Pernell Whitaker
Joe Calzaghe
Gene Tunney
Mike Gibbons
Marlon Starling

Starling is one of my favs as well. He would have been a handful for any welterweight in history IMO. Unless they hit after the bell of course.

[Seamus]

Some posters might get offended, but both at there best at Welterweight, I give Starling a decent chance of beating Tommy Hearns.

[ThatOne]

Who are your top ten Il Duce?

The Special '11'

* Kent Green
* Amos Johnson
* Percy Price
* Doug Jones
* Henry Cooper
* Joe Frazier
* Kenny Norton
* Roy Williams
* Antonio Inoki
* Larry Holmes
* Trevor Berbick

I believe they all have something in common.

Very good sir.

What about a proper list? Is Dempsey on there?

I took a three week hiatus from the board...Duce has been carrying on his anti-Ali crusade the entire time. My lord, that fella is persistent.

[keithmoonhangover]

Some posters might get offended, but both at there best at Welterweight, I give Starling a decent chance of beating Tommy Hearns.

Me too, especially over 15 rounds.

[evrenb]

Some posters might get offended, but both at there best at Welterweight, I give Starling a decent chance of beating Tommy Hearns.

Was watching a fair bit of Starling recently. Against Honeyghan and Breland and I forgot how good he was. When he was with Futch he was a master boxer and schooled in all the old time boxing nuances that you only see with a handful of boxers in modern era ; stevie johnston, whittaker, toney come to mind...Super fighter and I do not think beyond the realm to see him competitive against Hearns.
I watched his fight with Blocker and it was sad to see Futch in the opposite corner and Starling lose...the fight with Hearns may have panned out like that.

Evrenb

[keithmoonhangover]

It's been asked before, but there are some newish people, so I thought I'd ask again.

For me, it's....

1. Stanley Ketchel
2. Larry Holmes
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Evander Holyfield
5. Jack Johnson
6. Mark Prince
7. Keithmoon's wife.
8. Julio Cesar Chavez
9. Sugar Ray Leonard
10. Henry Armstrong

[BoxBuzz]

Keith...would you mean best fighters as overall fighter/personalities?

In Which case Kostya and few others might be on my list...


Or purely fighting ability...IN which case Monzon appears on my list.

Joe Louis and Ali are on it either way.

[keithmoonhangover]

Keith...would you mean best fighters as overall fighter/personalities?

In Which case Kostya and few others might be on my list...


Or purely fighting ability...IN which case Monzon appears on my list.

Joe Louis and Ali are on it either way.

Whatever you like sir. I like Battling Siki for his story as much as his fights.

[gilgamesh]

In no particular order

Arturo Gatti
Erik Morales
James Toney
Joe Frazier
Bobby Chacon
Julian Jackson
Tito Trinidad
Gennady Golovkin
Marcos Maidana
Emanuel Augustus

Some of these names may come and go as I just kinda went off the top of my head, but the first 5 are locks for all time. Gatti and Morales are some of the reasons why I became a die hard Boxing fan in the first place.

[Ezzard]

Just limiting it to guys from my lifetime whose careers I followed. There was an emotional attachment with all these guys. I followed their ups and downs...

Hearns
Duran - though I disliked him until Leonard III
Leonard
Hagler
Errol Christie
Barry McGuigan
Lloyd Honeyghan
Carl Froch
Frank Bruno

[gilgamesh]

Just limiting it to guys from my lifetime whose careers I followed. There was an emotional attachment with all these guys. I followed their ups and downs...

Hearns
Duran - though I disliked him until Leonard III
Leonard
Hagler
Errol Christie
Barry McGuigan
Lloyd Honeyghan
Carl Froch
Frank Bruno

Similar to your situation with Duran, I completely hated James Toney until he got robbed in the first Samuel Peter fight. Not too long after that, I looked back at his prime Middleweight and Super Middleweight days and really fell in Love with his skills and style...I became a big fan and always supported him going forward after that.

By the way...I can't believe I forgot this guy as he definitely belongs high on the list for me. You can most definitely drop Emanuel Augustus from my list and put Jose Luis Castillo on there. I was and still am a huge JLC fan. Always will be.

[TheWigwam]

In no particular order

Arturo Gatti
Erik Morales
James Toney
Joe Frazier
Bobby Chacon
Julian Jackson
Tito Trinidad
Gennady Golovkin
Marcos Maidana
Emanuel Augustus

Some of these names may come and go as I just kinda went off the top of my head, but the first 5 are locks for all time. Gatti and Morales are some of the reasons why I became a die hard Boxing fan in the first place.

Augustus would be on mine too (I know you said you'd drop him in a later post) but I can't think of my top 10 as a whole really

[gilgamesh]

In no particular order

Arturo Gatti
Erik Morales
James Toney
Joe Frazier
Bobby Chacon
Julian Jackson
Tito Trinidad
Gennady Golovkin
Marcos Maidana
Emanuel Augustus

Some of these names may come and go as I just kinda went off the top of my head, but the first 5 are locks for all time. Gatti and Morales are some of the reasons why I became a die hard Boxing fan in the first place.

Augustus would be on mine too (I know you said you'd drop him in a later post) but I can't think of my top 10 as a whole really

Oh yes, even though I later said I'd drop him. That's only because we can only choose 10. I loved watching Augustus fight and will always be a fan.