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Mike Tyson
Nigel Benn
Shea Neary

Really hard to narrow it down to three. Gatti, Morales, Pacquiao, DLH, Duran, Leonard, Ali are others i'm quite fond of.

Hagler2002 wrote:Marvin Hagler
Tony Lopez
Terry Norris

Terry Norris he just missed out on my top 3 watched his clips on you tube the other day again.what power&speed

Tommy Gunn13 wrote:

Hagler2002 wrote:Marvin Hagler
Tony Lopez
Terry Norris

Terry Norris he just missed out on my top 3 watched his clips on you tube the other day again.what power&speed

never even heard of any of that lot.... D

Manny Pacquiao
Roberto Duran
Marvin Hagler

Really stuck choosing between Hagler and Arturo Gatti for my third spot.

My three are in this order,

Larry Holmes
Lennox Lewis
Sugar Ray Leonard,and have met them all

All time favourites in their prime,

Hearns
Ali
Tyson


Domestic

Colin Jones
Ryan Rhodes
Michael Watson


Best 3 of all time
Henry Armstrong
Sugar Ray Robinson
Ali (prime before stripped of title)

It's really hard to pick 3, but.....

Nigel Benn
Marvelous Marvin
Mike Tyson

i cant name 3 but these guys are my fav of all time , cant rank them....

joe frazier
evander holyfield
arturo gatti
pernell whitaker
manny pacquaio

Nigel Benn
Joe Calzaghe
Juan Manuel Marquez

Ali, Naz & Pacquiao,

also Benn and Sugar Shane.

Charlie Burley Ezzard Charles Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard
Marco Antonio Barrera
Manny Pacquiao

James Toney
Arturo Gatti
Carl Thompson

Tyson
Naz
Benn


If I had been around for SRL, Ali etc. my choices would be different but these three boxers are a big part of why I fell in love with the sport.

doctorboxing wrote:Tyson
Naz
Benn


If I had been around for SRL, Ali etc. my choices would be different but these three boxers are a big part of why I fell in love with the sport.

Same with my choices

All time In no particular order:

Erik Morales
Marvin Hagler
Alexis Arguello

Currently fighting

JM Marquez
Manny Pacquaio
Israel Vasquez.

Homegrown:

Kevin Bennett
Michael Brodie
Jamie Moore

(Would have loved to have said Naz, because he was the most talented British fighter I've ever seen (maybe, bar Whittaker and Mayweather the most talented boxer I've seen full stop), but the guy's an absolute w@nker, so I can't bring myself to do it. Was also considering putting Lennox in the Homegrown category with the sole purpose of infuriating Terry D, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.)

These guys aren't necessarily the best, but I do love them. I don't know why. A combination of in and out of ring personality, the style with which they fight, their bravery, the number of great fights they've been involved in, the great memories they've given me through their ring performances... I don't know. I can't quite put my finger on why I always want Vasquez to win, or why I have this affinity for Erik Morales, but I loved that guy and actually felt quite upset when Pacquaio smashed him up in their third fight. Who knows, boxing does funny things.

Duran.

Ezzard Charles (astonishing at LHW!).

SRR.

Evander Holyfield

Tommy Hearns

Tony Sibson

mike Tyson

Naseem hamed

Lennox lewis

This list keeps changing, and it pained me to exclude one of my favourites Shane Mosley:

Sugar Ray Leonard
Antonio Barrera
Floyd Mayweather

AFTER 30 ENTRIES....(AND 2 ILLEGALS WHICH I COULD NOT INCLUDE).....YOUR FAVOURITE BOXERS ARE:


WITH 8 VOTES:

MIKE TYSON



ON 7:

NIGEL BENN



ON 6:

ROBERTO DURAN



ON 5:

RAY LEONARD
NASEEM HAMED



ON 4:

TOMMY HEARNS
MARVIN HAGLER
PERNELL WHITTAKER
LENNOX LEWIS



ON 3:

MUHAMMAD ALI
ROY JONES JUNIOR
MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA
MANNY PACQUIAO



to make it fair I couldn't count anyone that submitted over 3 (chambers and boxerbob as it would distort the figures, submit again by al means), anyone that went on to name domestics etc, after their top 3.....they too were not included. Honorary 4th places (like me), also not included.

sg1985 wrote:Lewis has 3 to.

it's a work in progress mate sorry.... , missed him off!

i have him on 4 here actually but will have to check.
I'll do this again in a week hopefully there will be a few more entries...

1-azumah nelson

2-sugar ray leonard

3-nigel benn
also used to love watching kirkland laing and dennis andries

stevieb_8006 wrote:

NorthEastBoxingFan wrote:

banjo wrote:Julio Cesar Chavez

Erik Morales

Pernell Whitaker

have you seen JCC's DVD that came out last year?...You would enjoy it I think

yeah i enjoyed that DVD. "grow some balls son....." Quality.


Benn/Eubank (how can u separate the two?)

in answer to that question.....( i gave them a vote each in your case, fck it, minor infringement on my rule... )......I went for Eubank because he was humiliated on live TV by Benn when they signed them contracts (see Youtube), yet what he said he would do....."I can punch too, I can box, I can fight, I am the better man"....he got in the rind and did exactly this, versus a man he has since admitted, "petrified him" , was expected to....and tried to bomb him to the moon!

I watched the fight on Youtube (fight 1) the other week and Eubank's boxing over the first few rounds was a joy to watch. As was the whole fight. That's why I plumped for Eubank...also I find him hugely entertaining and a complete original.

Ali

Lennox

Eubank.