BoxRec

Obsessed with? Obsession is like a mania. Definition of obsession: "an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind".

Judging by some of the posts here I wouldn't doubt that word is accurately used.

Past
Foreman MK2
Don Curry
Nino Laroche
Froch

Present
Canelo
Mayweather
Kovolev
Fury

I can't say I'm obsessed (or at least I hope not), but I do find myself on my 2 days off work, trawling through youtube watching old videos of my favourites; Gene Tunney, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis etc

My favorite boxer is Willie Pep. I try to learn as much about his career as I can and watch all his old fights on U-tube. Back in 1965 when Willie Pep was making his comeback my Father took me to see him fight in Johnston Pennsylvania. This was the first fight I even saw (my Dad was a big Willie Pep fan and would take trains from New York to see him fight in Boston, Detroit, Miami) and the start of a nearly 40 year tradition of going to boxing with my late Father. To this day, I view Willie Pep fights on U-tube and watch the old Willie Pep interviews. When my father started teaching me the basics of boxing in my youth - he always modeled everything we did after Willie Pep. So I guess my life-long interest in Willie Pep is due to the my Father's influence and the great times we had together for 40 years of my life with boxing, and of course, the great boxing of Willie Pep.

I still think about the great bantams of the late 60's 70's Rose, Reuben Olivares, Chu Chu Castillo, Little Poison, Rudkin, It was exciting for me

Not obsessed with any, but there have been some fighters that I was particularly drawn to at one time or another.

As a preteen Floyd was one of them. They showed his fights regularly in Canada, and I couldn't believe someone could be so good. I was also a big fan of BHOP's, and would try to replicate his technique and combinations when I first started boxing. As time went on I became more inclined to follow punchers though, and now am a huge fan of GGG.

But I'd have to say Wlad stands out as my favorite boxer ever, and by far the one I've been in the most debates about online. I first watched him destroy Charles Shufford, and he had such an imposing, powerful aura that immediately drew me to him. I also remember him batting down Shufford's gloves then immediately dropping him with a punch, a technique I hadn't seen at the time. I also came to appreciate his intelligence, which you don't see a lot of among elite boxers, and of course his KTFO pop was something that made his fights appeal to me as well.

None, but I've went back and read more clippings on Eddie Booker & Wesley monzon than anyone else. Flirted with writing a book about them.