Who’s your choice of the Top 12 Most Fearsome Fighters Ever?

[RonnyJ]

Take the blade out and add Julian Jackson

80s mike tyson is #1

Julian jackson
Edwin valero
Gerald mcclellan
Ike ibeabuchi
Arthur abraham
Dimitry kudryashov (looks scary & has scary power)
Manny pacquiao (nice outside the ring, but inside during his prime he was terror)

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Mike Tyson is number 1 in my lifetime, at least prior to 1990.

He terrified the majority of his opponents into submission before a punch was thrown.

After 1990, not so much, although Alex Stewart and Frank Bruno might disagree with me.

Honourable mention to the Hitman, Thomas Hearns, arguably the only man who ever intimidated Roberto Duran.

[Stuarty]

Benn was pretty fierce. Nobody wanted it against GGG for quite a long spell.

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Barkley is a curious case..

It's probably correct to say he doesn't belong, but he gets props for being the only man to arguably intimidate Thomas Hearns.

I don't know what it was about Barkley, but he definitely had something over Hearns.

[Paci]

Barkley is a curious case..

It's probably correct to say he doesn't belong, but he gets props for being the only man to arguably intimidate Thomas Hearns.

I don't know what it was about Barkley, but he definitely had something over Hearns.

Yeah, that is something extra.

[Loki]

In no particular order:

Mike Tyson, GGG, Julian Jackson, Sonny Liston, Monzon, Vitali Klitschko, Nigel Benn. Probably missed a few.

[Loki]

Andre the Giant. For a guy to put genuine fear in the hearts of his opponents in a scripted environment he gets my vote.

LMAO. Andre was a legend. He drank more than the Irish on St Patrick’s day. The HBO documentary is a really good watch.

[Loki]

Out of the current guys I would say Andy Ruiz pretty damn fearless. I guess most would be afraid of AJ in the ring

Fearsome, not fearless. I agree with Ruiz on the later but you can’t say he’s fearsome; he looks like the kid from Pixar’s ‘Up’.

[Lenny Cravats]

If I was in a pub and accidentally knocked into someone, spilling their pint down their front, I would pray that it wasn't Dmitry Kudryashov.
He may not be massively fearsome to other boxers - on account of his rudimentary skills and method of blocking punches with his face, but I would literally shit in my pants if he gave me a dirty look.

[oogiebe]

Andre the Giant. For a guy to put genuine fear in the hearts of his opponents in a scripted environment he gets my vote.

LMAO. Andre was a legend. He drank more than the Irish on St Patrick’s day. The HBO documentary is a really good watch.

Yeah that HBO special was spectacular.

[cormack]

rocky balboa

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Mike Tyson in one of those, "ill fu.ck you till you love me faggot" moods. number one for scary there.

Tyson wasn't scary when he said that.

By that point in his career, he either had to hire an idiot in sunglasses and camouflage gear to shout at his opponents, or come up with bizarre homosexual references, or comical threats to eat his opponent's unborn children.

[littlepug]

Barkley is a curious case..

It's probably correct to say he doesn't belong, but he gets props for being the only man to arguably intimidate Thomas Hearns.

I don't know what it was about Barkley, but he definitely had something over Hearns.

Van Horn looked terrified in the moments before their fight !

[Bandog]

Mike Tyson in one of those, "ill fu.ck you till you love me faggot" moods. number one for scary there.

Tyson most likely was on steroids big time, but was intimidating to many. Very little testing and they were rampant as far as use, especially in combat sports.

[Thomastearns]

Mike Tyson is number 1 in my lifetime, at least prior to 1990.

He terrified the majority of his opponents into submission before a punch was thrown.

After 1990, not so much, although Alex Stewart and Frank Bruno might disagree with me.

Honourable mention to the Hitman, Thomas Hearns, arguably the only man who ever intimidated Roberto Duran.

Same here, I don't personally recall anyone casting such a menacing shadow over boxing as Mike Tyson. Even as the wheels began to fall off in his personal life there was still this feeling it might only increase his ferrocity inside the ring.

Cus d'Amato's finest creation.

Hearns (and Mugabe pre Hagler to an extent) also cast long shadows as they scythed through their divisions, as did Don Curry. Of course one defeat usually changed everything thereafter.

Golovkin, Inoue and Wilder would be my candidates of today but the all time number 1 would have to be Charles 'Sonny' Liston who may have had the meanest stare boxing has ever seen. I recall reading that he once even silenced Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay at the time) when he stared at him and told him he'd whip him like his daddy did!

It's actually difficult to name 12 because boxers are usually incredibly brave individuals, not easily cowered by anyone.

[Grant]

Gotta agree with #4 Jack Dempsey.
All the old film I have seen indicate that he was one of the most feared fighters.
Not a Gentleman at all, which is what you have to be to be a great

[Enlightened-One]

It’s disappointing to see so many people mentioning bigger fighters as being fearsome, with the exception of the famous all-time-great Roberto Duran, because there were some seriously fearsome small men too, such as Khaosai Galaxy.

The heavily muscled Thai fighter nonchalantly walked-down his constantly retreating foes and bludgeoned his opponents to defeat.

I guess there are other fearsome small fighters also, such as Carlos Zarate and Wilfredo Gomez.

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Gotta agree with #4 Jack Dempsey.
All the old film I have seen indicate that he was one of the most feared fighters.
Not a Gentleman at all, which is what you have to be to be a great

He is a good shout.

Mike Tyson even modelled himself on Dempsey; right down to the soup bowl haircut he sported briefly too.

[Paci]

Gotta agree with #4 Jack Dempsey.
All the old film I have seen indicate that he was one of the most feared fighters.
Not a Gentleman at all, which is what you have to be to be a great

He run people over more or less with no regard for the damage he could do.

[Oben321]

Andre the Giant. For a guy to put genuine fear in the hearts of his opponents in a scripted environment he gets my vote.

LMAO. Andre was a legend. He drank more than the Irish on St Patrick’s day. The HBO documentary is a really good watch.

Great story/documentary! I actually enjoyed watching it twice.

[morm]

Iron Mike Tyson before Buster D.

[GreenLightning]

you being ironic?

Nah, dude has legit dynamite in his hands, look what happens when he lands. Very scary to face.

Thanks to the chinney D level he's been feasting on. Ten rounds to ko Szpilka? Couldn't stop a half trained Bermane Stiverne so they had to drag in his fat corpse so Wilder could knock him over. Couldn't drop Duhaupas who Povetkin comatosed in one punch.You mean the guy who couldn't knock out Charlie Zelenoff is one of the scariest boxers of all time? He doesn't even hit as hard as Wlad lol

Wilder scarier than Julian Jackson lol

[JohnL]

The intimidators: Liston, Foreman, Tyson, Hagler, Duran, Hearns, Baer, Dempsey, Louis, Frazier, Arguello and ,soon, Wilder.

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Nigel Benn

[Paci]

Nigel Benn

That rant after McClellan knockout was scary, he didn't give five f*cks about the guy on the floor.