Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Who should be admitted into the IBHOF?

Poll ended at 28 Dec 2018, 15:22

Tomasz Adamek
8
2%
Antonio Tarver
6
2%
James Toney
48
13%
Shannon Briggs
5
1%
Roy Jones
72
19%
Floyd Mayweather
70
18%
Carl Froch
47
12%
Vitali Klitschko
54
14%
Chad Dawson
4
1%
Bernard Hopkins
69
18%
 
Total votes: 383

Freedom2013
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Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by Freedom2013 »

Here's a list of boxers at the end of their careers.

Choose the ones you think deserve to be voted in.

What about those who have tested positive for PEDs?
hurricanemitch14
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by hurricanemitch14 »

Jones, Toney, Hopkins and Floyd are shoe ins.

Froch and Adamek are decent picks

Vitali would have been if he'd wanted to be. His heart has been in politics and trying to help his country, no shame in that. Kinda hurt his boxing career tho. 10 times the fighter baby Wlad ever was imo.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by SaadOffTheDeck »

Toney, Jones, Floyd, Froch & Hopkins.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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jones, floyd, toney, froch, hopkins :bag:
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All of them will probably get on with the way boxing lets people in the hall. I'd love to see boxing adopt a policy that makes it harder to get in the HOF like baseball. There's no way Sly Stallone should be a HOF'er for pretending to be a great boxer. That was silly regardless of what those movies did for recognition of the sport.

I do agree with Al Bernstein and Jim Lampley getting in but I think it was way too premature to enduct them. Wait till they retire like every other sport
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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No way Toney the doper gets in. Maybe if they started a Hall of Infamy...
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by funso banjo baby »

Vitali was briefly the linear heavy champ.

that's enough for me
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Toney, Jones, Floyd, Froch & Hopkins.
Precisely.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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There's apparently a few people who voted for Froch, but not Toney. These few people don't have the slightest clue about boxing.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by Tony1244 »

I voted for

Hopkins
Vitali Klitschko
RJJ
Mayweather
Taki...
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Lackeos wrote:There's apparently a few people who voted for Froch, but not Toney. These few people don't have the slightest clue about boxing.
Maybe some people don't appreciate the PEDs.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by bnovelist »

This guy's being :lol: The only 3 fighters on the list that came up short was, Brigs, Dawson and Ademek everyone else are 1st ballots this guy is cracking

late April Fool's jokes on here today can't everyone fell for this dumb ass question :lol:
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by Cent0089 »

Hopkins
RJJ
Tarver
Froch
Klitschko
Mayweather
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Surprised to see some people don't have Vitali in it.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by ClivePatrickLyons »

Hopkins
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Post by Perseus »

Toney, Jones, Hopkins, Mayweather are locks whenever they become eligible for HOF induction.
Froch also deserves HOF induction imo.

Not sure on Vitali, borderline candidate imo. I won't be disappointed either way, if he gets in that's great, if not that's great too.
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Post by SaadOffTheDeck »

caldo2025 wrote:All of them will probably get on with the way boxing lets people in the hall. I'd love to see boxing adopt a policy that makes it harder to get in the HOF like baseball. There's no way Sly Stallone should be a HOF'er for pretending to be a great boxer. That was silly regardless of what those movies did for recognition of the sport.

I do agree with Al Bernstein and Jim Lampley getting in but I think it was way too premature to enduct them. Wait till they retire like every other sport
Stallone was absolutely deserving. There is also a guy in the HOF for painting Ali and Frazier. Always cracks me up when people list Stallone, he deserves to be in way more than gatti.
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Post by jockpunk »

If it were up to me:

Toney, Hopkins, Floyd, and Jones would be definite. I am on the fence about vitali but would probably lean towards yes.

No to the rest. I can see the argument for froch but in my opinion he was never the best in his division and only fought in one division. I have no probable with guys staying in one division, but you better rule it. I can't say froch ever did.

Based on how unselective the boxing hall is, they all probably get in. It really is a joke.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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Everybody, except Dawson and Tarver
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Post by SaadOffTheDeck »

Loudpack wrote:Everybody, except Dawson and Tarver
Dawson dominantly beat 3 people on that list. He certainly should get in ahead of Adamek. The abrupt decline is why I left him off.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by gilgamesh »

Toney, Floyd, Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr., Vitali

Possibly Froch, but he's on the bubble.

Briggs is nowhere near HOF worthy
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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Loudpack wrote:Everybody, except Dawson and Tarver
Dawson and Tarver are WAY more worthy than Briggs. Briggs shouldn't even be in the conversation.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

Post by crusader »

Hop, Floyd, Roy, Toney, and Froch.

Vitali's opposition is too weak to make him a clear yes but I think he'll get in.
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Re: Which of the following boxers should go into the Hall of Fame?

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Mayweather and Hopkins, Toney, Jones and Vitali are all drug cheats, so they belong in a Hall of Shame, not fame, Mayweather can join them there if it's conclusively proved that he was on drugs during his career. The rest didn't have good enough careers to be in the Hall of Fame IMO.
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expe wrote:Mayweather and Hopkins, Toney, Jones and Vitali are all drug cheats, so they belong in a Hall of Shame, not fame, Mayweather can join them there if it's conclusively proved that he was on drugs during his career. The rest didn't have good enough careers to be in the Hall of Fame IMO.
Mayweather and Hopkins have never once failed a drug test. Assuming they've used PED's doesn't make it so. Vitali never failed a drug test as a Professional either.
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