Of the following 5 fighters who do you think is the best?
With your top 2 boxing, each other in their prime, who do you think is the best?
1. Micheal moorer
2. Joe Bugner
3. Pinklon Thomas
4. Rex Layne
5. Gerry Cooney
Trying to formulate a top 50 best. Need help with that next group.
who's the best of these fighters?
okay...I'll take it seriously,or at least more seriously than Pinklon Thomas did. I thought he showed great potential ...well....good potential when he first came along.Excellent left jab, decent power and had some ring smarts. Drugs got to him early, or vice versa, so there was no way to find out if he really had it.
Never thought much of Moorer as a heavyweight, but his whole carrier was made worthwhile for letting us see Teddy Atlas as the greatest motivator speaker ever between rounds of a fight.
Gerry Cooney made it to a title fight by running and ad that said "Wanted...middle aged gentlemen of color who are willing to stand still in the middlle of a boxing ring and let a tall Caucasian hit them with a left hook until they fall down.No experience necessary, but if it occured more than twenty years ago will be a bonus.
Joe Bugner at least pretty much guaranteed you'd see a fight last a full 12 or 15 rounds, which apparently was his only goal.
Rex Layne's claim to fame. A rough guy who caught Walcott on one of the worst nights of the latter's career.
Also noted for winning a decision over Ezzard Charles. Layne was a Mormon, the fight was in Utah, the referee was a Mormon,Jack Dempsey, who was also the sole judge and voted two rounds for Layne, one for Charles, and eight even. Charles had beaten him previously and in the third fight was heading toward a decison when Layne blatantly and deliberatley butted him and awakened the dormant killer instinct in Charles, who promptly opened up and beat the hell out of him and stopped him.
picking the next 45 will be most difficult. May I suggest starting with Tommy "Hurricane " Jackson,and then perhaps Roy "Cut n Shoot" Harris?
Never thought much of Moorer as a heavyweight, but his whole carrier was made worthwhile for letting us see Teddy Atlas as the greatest motivator speaker ever between rounds of a fight.
Gerry Cooney made it to a title fight by running and ad that said "Wanted...middle aged gentlemen of color who are willing to stand still in the middlle of a boxing ring and let a tall Caucasian hit them with a left hook until they fall down.No experience necessary, but if it occured more than twenty years ago will be a bonus.
Joe Bugner at least pretty much guaranteed you'd see a fight last a full 12 or 15 rounds, which apparently was his only goal.
Rex Layne's claim to fame. A rough guy who caught Walcott on one of the worst nights of the latter's career.
Also noted for winning a decision over Ezzard Charles. Layne was a Mormon, the fight was in Utah, the referee was a Mormon,Jack Dempsey, who was also the sole judge and voted two rounds for Layne, one for Charles, and eight even. Charles had beaten him previously and in the third fight was heading toward a decison when Layne blatantly and deliberatley butted him and awakened the dormant killer instinct in Charles, who promptly opened up and beat the hell out of him and stopped him.
picking the next 45 will be most difficult. May I suggest starting with Tommy "Hurricane " Jackson,and then perhaps Roy "Cut n Shoot" Harris?
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