Your all time 8 man boxing tournament

[semisports]

Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.

Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:

Under 200 lbs.

Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks

[actjac]

Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.

Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:

Under 200 lbs.

Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks

Where is Gene Tunney?

[jezzamundo]

Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.

Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:

Under 200 lbs.

Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks

Where is Gene Tunney?

I'd look at replacing RJJ with Tunney. I don't think Jones fairs well in that pool - he could win a couple of fights perhaps, but he's going to get knocked out a lot.

[adislav123]

1
Louis
Liston
Ali
Foreman
Holmes
Tyson
Bowe
Lewis

2
Foreman
Tyson
Bowe
Lennox
Vitali
Joshua
Fury
Ortiz

[oogiebe]

Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)

1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel

[gilgamesh]

Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)

1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel

Replace Emile Griffith with Gennady Golovkin, and Valdes with Harry Greb and I'm down.

[oogiebe]

Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)

1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel

Replace Emile Griffith with Gennady Golovkin, and I'm down.

Pre Paret Griffith. When GGG is done and retired, I'll put him in! LOL!

[gilgamesh]

Light Heavyweight

1. Archie Moore
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Michael Spinks
4. Bob Foster
5. Bob Fitzsimmons
6. Matthew Saad Muhammad
7. Roy Jones Jr.
8. Billy Conn

[gilgamesh]

Featherweight

1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao

Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.

[gilgamesh]

This one will be fairly easy since it's a young division.

Super Middleweight

1. Andre Ward
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Carl Froch
4. James Toney
5. Roy Jones Jr.
6. Tommy Hearns
7. Chris Eubank
8. Nigel Benn

[actjac]

Below 140 lbs.

Mayweather
Duran
Chavez
Whitaker
B. Leonard
Pacquiao
Armstrong
Pryor
Camacho

[Ricky]

135 versions of

Pac
Floyd
Lomachenko
Armstrong
Duran
JMM
Morales
Mosley

[paddy chavez]

154
Tommy Hearns
Sugar Ray Robinson
Terry Norris
Ray Leonard
Julian Jackson
Mike McCallum
Canello
Winky Wright

[NoScoutingReports]

135 versions of

Pac
Floyd
Lomachenko
Armstrong
Duran
JMM
Morales
Mosley

[dagilechia]

Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis
Vitali Klitschko
George Foreman
Evander Holyfield
Anthony Joshua
Oleksandr Usyk

Ali vs Usyk
Tyson vs Foreman
Lewis vs Joshua
Klitschko vs Holyfield

[dagilechia]

Cruiserweight

Oleksandr Usyk
Evander Holyfield
Tomasz Adamek
David Haye
Yoan Pablo Hernandez
Marco Huck
Steve Cunningham
Denis Lebedev

Usyk vs Cunningham
Haye vs Hernandez
Holyfield vs Lebedev
Adamek vs Huck

[Ricky]

Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis
Vitali Klitschko
George Foreman
Evander Holyfield
Anthony Joshua
Oleksandr Usyk

Ali vs Usyk
Tyson vs Foreman
Lewis vs Joshua
Klitschko vs Holyfield

I think your semi-finals end up 2 fights we've already seen (Ali/BGF & LL/VK). Lewis vs Ali is the real intrigue though, 2 best imo.

[oogiebe]

Featherweight

1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao

Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.

I'd have Arguello in there.

[klitoris]

Heavyweight

Ali
Lewis
Tyson
V. Klitschko
Holmes
Bowe
W. Klitschko
Foreman

[klitoris]

Cruiserweight

Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson

[dagilechia]

Cruiserweight

Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson

oh God, i forgot about Drozd
then my CW tournament is:

Usyk vs Drozd
Haye vs Cunningham
Holyfield vs Lebedev
Adamek vs Huck

[semisports]

Cruiserweight

Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson

I will match by under 200 lb. lineup against yours:


Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks

[Esquire]

Featherweights. But only fighters I watched closely during their careers. Even with that caveat we could find 8 all-time great featherweights between the early 70's and now. We could easily find 12-16. All would be HOF'ers or well on their way to the Hall.

[Esquire]

Featherweight

1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao

Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.

I'd have Arguello in there.

Yes on Arguello. You could easily throw in Azumah Nelson, Eusebio Pedroza, Ruben Olivares and Jeff Fenech too. Who to leave out? Yikes!

[oogiebe]

Featherweight

1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao

Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.

I'd have Arguello in there.

Yes on Arguello. You could easily throw in Azumah Nelson, Eusebio Pedroza, Ruben Olivares and Jeff Fenech too. Who to leave out? Yikes!

I always thought Olivares best days were at BW.