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Most exciting boxer to watch regardless of win, lose or draw? I'm going with Arturo Gatti

ade the grenade wrote:Most exciting boxer to watch regardless of win, lose or draw? I'm going with Arturo Gatti

Pretty much my all time favorite fighter, and I thank you for mentioning him.

Gatti is most definitely in the discussion along with...

Erik Morales
Bobby Chacon
Matthew Saad Muhammad

to name a few. At their respective peaks, you'll basically never see any of these guys in a fight that's not exciting in one way or another. These 4 guys are in a great deal of the greatest fights I've ever seen in my life.

Gatti is my #1 fighter :-) Nigel Benn was pretty exciting to watch too....

Thomas Hearns, some of the greatest skills and power in history coupled with vulnerability and warrior spirit. He's the man.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Thomas Hearns, some of the greatest skills and power in history coupled with vulnerability and warrior spirit. He's the man.

Hearns is a great shout as well definitely

Just looking at The Ring Magazines Fight of the Year list, Gatti was in 4 FOTYs with 2 wins & 2 losses

ade the grenade wrote:Just looking at The Ring Magazines Fight of the Year list, Gatti was in 4 FOTYs with 2 wins & 2 losses

Carmen Basilio was in 5 in a row. 1955-1959

He's certainly gotta rank up there as one of the all time Most exciting fighters as well.

Good pick

I know most people won't agree but I enjoyed watching Vitali Klitschko fight.

Too each their own, he's bored me to tears with the exception of the Lewis and Chisora fights. A lot of that is his abysmal opposition, he's certainly willing.

Othro wrote:I know most people won't agree but I enjoyed watching Vitali Klitschko fight.

How can anyone disagree with whether or not YOU enjoy something?

Probably Danny Lopez for me. He had to mount a comeback in a lot of fights, and that was always exciting to watch. He was like that old Timex watch commercial: "Takes a licking but keeps on ticking . . ."

I'd like to second Saad Muhammad and add one Jesse James Hughes to the list.

I can't remember or imagine Katsidis being in a dull fight.

I would go with : -

Bob Satterfield
Mike Tyson
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Johnson
Arturo Gatti
Nigel Benn
Carmen Basilio
Gene Fullmer
Kid Gavilan
Muhammad Ali

i'll go with chacon - didn't seem to care about getting busted up

misterpunch wrote:i'll go with chacon - didn't seem to care about getting busted up

There where some great fighters around those weights then-so exciting to watch As Ill Duce Said Little red lopez, also Ruben Olivares, Zamora and Carlos Zarate great mexican fighters

For British fight fans Clinton Mckenzie and Corny Boza Edwards-who fought Chacon in two wars-and Mark Kaylor always bought some mayhem with him.

Once you start thinking though you keep getting names popping up

Matthew Saad Muhammad (Franklin) vs Richie Kates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtorcoGDitY

evrenb wrote:I would go with : -

Bob Satterfield
Mike Tyson
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Johnson
Arturo Gatti
Nigel Benn
Carmen Basilio
Gene Fullmer
Kid Gavilan
Muhammad Ali

Great list Id add to it Tony Zale, Sugar Ray Leonard and Boom-Boom.

I love Basilio, but often ponder why his ol arch-nemesis seems to get so little love.

Tony Demarco was powerful... relentless.... wild and EXCITING. There's a fella who could bang with the best of them.

From the UK.....Benn, Shea Neary, Paul 'Hoko' Hodkinson and Hamed.

Hoko is one of my favourite all time fighters, he really was good and always put in on his opponents, often needing to because he was a bad bleeder/sweller.

Would love to see a Hoko restrospective on the board....just for a short while he was cracking, world class fireball of a fighter and it is kind of a shame he's half-forgotten now.

Bodyshot3 wrote:From the UK.....Benn, Shea Neary, Paul 'Hoko' Hodkinson and Hamed.

Hoko is one of my favourite all time fighters, he really was good and always put in on his opponents, often needing to because he was a bad bleeder/sweller.

Would love to see a Hoko restrospective on the board....just for a short while he was cracking, world class fireball of a fighter and it is kind of a shame he's half-forgotten now.

He was class; every punch was crisp and delivered with his body weight behind it - a very good fighter.

For me, it got to be the great Roberto Duran, man. No doubt.

Hearns
Gatti
Tyson
Duran
Morales

In this time

Provodnikov
Stevenson
Pacquiao
Maidana
Mathysse

He wasn't the most exciting but for anyone who never saw Troy Dorsey fight, I strongly suggest you give it a go. Man never stopped throwing shots.