Who Are Your Ten Favourite Fighters Ever.

[keithmoonhangover]

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.

Choose as many as you want mate. I'm no thread Nazi.

[thunderfromdownunder]

Miguel Cotto
Marco Antonio Barrera
Roberto Duran
Jeff Fenech
Sugar Ray Leonard
Bernard Hopkins
Lionel Rose
Oscar de la Hoya
Lennox Lewis
Carlos Monzon

[Counter-puncher]

McCallum
Chavez
Hearns
Nishioka
Calzaghe
JMM
Arguello
Sanchez

& Ali and Leonard are in their own little subcategory of virtuoso geniuses

[grevan]

Jeff Fenech
Kostya Tszyu
Jeff Harding
Sugar Ray Leonard
Julian Jackson
Thomas Hearns
Ezzard Charles
Rocky Marciano
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman

[AngryGoon38]

Roberto Duran
Willie Pep
Evander Holyfield
Wlad Klischko
Julio Ceasar Chavez
Sugar Ray Robinson
SRL
Kid Gavilan
Larry Holmes
Joe Louis

[elmersalsa]

My top 10 favorite fighters:
Roberto Duran
Muhammad Ali
Sugar Ray Leonard
Bobby Chacon
Julio Cesar Chavez
Eusebio Pedroza
Ken Buchanan
Kid Gavilan
Manny Pacquiao
Vicente Saldivar

[elmersalsa]

Other favorites:
Joe Brown
Ike Williams
James Toney
Mike Tyson of the 80s
Evander Holyfield

[RadioElRadar]

Joe Frazier
Wilfred Benitez
Thomas Hearns
Alexis Arguello
Bazooka Limon
Ezzard Charles
Erik Morales
Azumah Nelson
Salvador Sanchez
Jose Napoles

[Syntax Error]

Not in order, but 10 fighters I always liked were:-

Matthew Saad Muhammad
Willie Pep
Prince Naseem Hamed
Carl Thompson
Evander Holyfield
Thomas Hearns
Muhammad Ali
Sugar Ray Leonard
Salvador Sanchez
Azumah Nelson

[keithmoonhangover]

Can't believe I missed Nigel Benn off my list. A true warrior, the McClellan win was an amazing performance.

[stevedoc]

1) tommy hearns ........we all know why
2) julio cesar chavez
3) rocky kelly........ i met him at a show a few weeks back and he could believe i knew who he was ,he was still super fit and a really nice guy...
4) barry mcguigan
5) marvin hagler
6) terry norris
7) roberto duran
8) chris eubanks
9) henry armstrong
10) jimmy wilde

hard to do just ten ....fighters like SRL, SRR , holyfield ,larry holmes ,nigel benn ,Ali , joe louis could of gone in as well.

[Expug]

Danny Lopez
Yaqui Lopez
Carlos Palomino
Johnny Heard
Johnny Lira
James Tillis
Randy Smith
Henry Sims
Louie Mateo
Lenny Lapaglia

[Ambling Alp II]

Muhammad Ali
Alexis Arguello
Expug
Ray Leonard
Danny Lopez
Floyd Patterson
Ray Robinson
Mathew Saad Muhammad
Michael Spinks
Tim Tomasek

[SaadOffTheDeck]

The Doughboy? That's great, his fight out of the crowd with Morrison was hilarious.

On another note I see both Hearns and Leonard on lists. Can anyone that loves them both that much explain that? They're certainly two all-time greats, it was just pretty divided at the time and the nature of their rivalry makes that hard for me to understand.

[Seamus]

Are you joking ? Ezz and Elmer both have Leonard and Duran.

[Expug]

Muhammad Ali
Alexis Arguello
Expug
Ray Leonard
Danny Lopez
Floyd Patterson
Ray Robinson
Mathew Saad Muhammad
Michael Spinks
Tim Tomasek

I used to know Timmy Tomashek
Worked out for a while in a gym in Whiting Indiana with him and Marty Jakubowski
The guy was hilarious in a great way. Friendliest person you could ever meet. It was always "golly" and "Gee wiz" super nice to everybody. Thats how I remember him at least. It was a long time ago and havent seen him for many many years. I wonder what happened to him.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Are you joking ? Ezz and Elmer both have Leonard and Duran.

That too. No I'm not joking, I was just wondering. Morales/Barrera, Marquez/Pac, Frazier/Ali, etc.. they all seem like an either or for me. Unless it's someone younger without the emotion of a live fight, that's understandable.

[Counter-puncher]

The Doughboy? That's great, his fight out of the crowd with Morrison was hilarious.

On another note I see both Hearns and Leonard on lists. Can anyone that loves them both that much explain that? They're certainly two all-time greats, it was just pretty divided at the time and the nature of their rivalry makes that hard for me to understand.

count me in for one of those posters, albeit i set Leonard and Ali aside in their own subcategory, which I'll try to explain.

for me at least, Leonard/Ali gets my manlove simply by virtue of the way he moved. i mean, i could watch him for 3 minutes doing nothing more than moving around the ring. i find the relatively uneventful first 9 minutes of SRL-Hearns pretty much thrilling, for no other reason than that. most of my other favourites have got slightly deeper reasons behind the mancrush but with Leonard and Ali, for want of a better phrase, they just make boxing aethetically beautiful to me, in a way no other fighters ever have.

[Counter-puncher]

oh, and I'm just too young to have caught their rivalry for the first fight

[SaadOffTheDeck]

oh, and I'm just too young to have caught their rivalry for the first fight

I was getting ready to type that I didn't understand, this makes all the sense in the world. I was 6 for the last Ali/Frazier fight and loved Ali during the end of his career. I became more of a Frazier man as I grew up but I like both of them. Any of the big rivalries I was around to watch, I had a clear rooting interest. Of course at the same time, Hearns and Duran are two of my favorites. It might just be that I always hated Leonard, even as a kid.

[dr_devious]

Marvin Hagler
Nigel Benn
Iran Barkley
Lennox Lewis
Azumah Nelson
Razor Ruddock
Frank Bruno
Tommy Hearns
Mike McCallum
Lloyd Honeyghan

[Tomasino]

Rocky Marciano
Ken Buchanan
Joe Louis
Nigel Benn
Archie Moore
Marvin Hagler
Kevin Finnegan
J M Marquez
J C Chavez
Dwight Qawi

[Borinken25]

From my time:
1. Wilfredo Gomez
2. Wilfredo Benitez
3. Marvin Hagler
4. Pernell Whitaker
5. Felix Trinidad
6. Tomas Hearns
7. Alexis Arguello
8. Ruben Olivares
9. Alfredo “El Salsero” Escalera
10. A pre-Rosario – Hector Camacho

Not my time:
1. Carlos Ortiz
2. Sugar Ray Robinson
3. Harry Greb
4. Kid Gavilan
5. Joe Louis
6. Ezzard Charles
7. Sam Langford
8. Pedro Montanez
9. Lou Ambers
10. Cocoa Kid

[giacomino]

10 of my favorites

Monzon
Hagler
Briscoe
Wilfredo Gomez
Javier Castillejo
Walcott
Olivares
Arguello
Duran
Nelson/Sanchez/Fenech/Laciar
Ok, that's actually 13

[Expug]

Muhammad Ali
Alexis Arguello
Expug
Ray Leonard
Danny Lopez
Floyd Patterson
Ray Robinson
Mathew Saad Muhammad
Michael Spinks
Tim Tomasek

Just noticed that Alp.
Thank You sir.