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Imagine going to your local boxing club and showing interest in sparring a tad bit to get in shape. You walk in the gym and one of the coaches tells

you to get warmed up your sparring partner is running late he'll be here in a bit. You hop in the ring working up a sweat doing basic boxing drills

footwork, shadow boxing, etc...The gym's entrance door opens and a fine ass babe walks in, fine ass hell drop dead beautiful and all of her curves

are jiggling, then 8ft behind is her boyfriend entering the gym as well and it's 25yr old Big George Foreman!

Now tell me this isn't a very f@cked up situation to be associated with? Man I'd tell dude I left my water bottle in the car and hop in there and never

to be seen ever again in that gym!

Very insightful.

Ike Ibeabuchi is runner up!

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Very insightful.

A couple of weeks from now he'll have another thread with the same title except he'll be talking about Mike Tyson instead. Everybody is the Greatest that ever lived to bnovelist...for 2 weeks until he decides somebody else is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Mike was great but young George Foreman when he's walking you get the f@ck out of the way! Let the man pass with no problems!

bnovelist wrote:Mike was great but young George Foreman when he's walking you get the f@ck out of the way! Let the man pass with no problems!

And that Kimbo Slice...holy f*ck. You'd just let that guy straight up bang your girlfriend before you'd take a swing at him. I mean Holy Moley, Gee Willickers was that guy scary looking with the build, and the beard and the Blackness.

bnovelist wrote:Imagine going to your local boxing club and showing interest in sparring a tad bit to get in shape. You walk in the gym and one of the coaches tells

you to get warmed up your sparring partner is running late he'll be here in a bit. You hop in the ring working up a sweat doing basic boxing drills

footwork, shadow boxing, etc...The gym's entrance door opens and a fine ass babe walks in, fine ass hell drop dead beautiful and all of her curves

are jiggling, then 8ft behind is her boyfriend entering the gym as well and it's 25yr old Big George Foreman!

Now tell me this isn't a very f@cked up situation to be associated with? Man I'd tell dude I left my water bottle in the car and hop in there and never

to be seen ever again in that gym!

George Foremans girlfriend would not have jiggly bits. George would have grilled all that fat off her.

Fighters you mean... It's impossible to say who was the most intimidating... About 50 are tied for 1st.

The President, along about the time he murdered Chris Byrd, laughing all the way... 20 fights in and done... Too damned bad

Luis Ortiz when he faced off with Bryant Jennings... Jennings looked about ready to faint... Ortiz hit BJ with that superior "Hi ya rook" smirk.

Anthony Joshua when he faced Charles Martin in the face off.. and blew a raft of hot air right into his face.. "HHHAAAHH" ... AJ's eyes were dancing.

Gennady Golovkin when he was trying to get Martin Murray to punch... to extend the fight and get a little action going... Murray fought like a guy who was trying to hide under a bed.. He was desperately trying to go the distance.. GGG came out all business in the 11th.. Murray flagged immediately.

Sergei Kovalev when he cut the ring off on Israel Sillakh and decked him less than 4 minutes into the fight.. Why did Sillakh get up??? He was scared shltless..

Mike Tyson when he glared at Michael Spinks just before their fight.. Spinks had his eyes wide open.. but there was nobody home.. Spinks was gone already.

George Foreman when he glared at Joe Frazier at the weigh-in.. Foreman had never been in such ripped condition before or since.. 217 pounds of hammered down Hell.. Fatty Frazier was impressed, but tried to look dignified and arrogant.. Joe wasn't fooling anybody.. He might as well have been trying to swim.

Sonny Liston when he faced Floyd Patterson... after waiting for the opportunity for years... Patterson was the 1st Heavyweight Champion I've ever seen who looked scared to death... Joe Frazier was the 2nd... Michael Spinks was the 3rd... Charles Martin was the 4th...

Wale Omotoso has killed sparring partners.

gilgamesh wrote:

bnovelist wrote:Mike was great but young George Foreman when he's walking you get the f@ck out of the way! Let the man pass with no problems!

And that Kimbo Slice...holy f*ck. You'd just let that guy straight up bang your girlfriend before you'd take a swing at him. I mean Holy Moley, Gee Willickers was that guy scary looking with the build, and the beard and the Blackness.

At his formidable peak Mike Tyson literally scaring his opponents into submission, hasn't happened since and only big George or Liston came close before him.

David Tua?

My very first sparring partner was no killer to a lot of people,but was a very tough guy to spar for my first time. It was Lorenzo Boyd he has fought a lot of good fighters as well as a few greats. We was in a 12 foot homemade boxing ring, and he beat the breaks off me,as I have never been in the ring before and he wanted to let everyone know that. It was a good experience to remember, I was tough as nails no amateur experience and he made me pay for being a tough guy. Experience is something you can't teach

Three for me;

Mike Tyson, Vitali Klitschko and Kostya Tszyu.

prime tyson

prime tua

Fritzie Zivic was a rough man. Mike Tyson an intimidating fighter, Dempsey, golovkin, there's so many

Kalan wrote:Sonny Liston when he faced Floyd Patterson... after waiting for the opportunity for years... Patterson was the 1st Heavyweight Champion I've ever seen who looked scared to death... Joe Frazier was the 2nd... Michael Spinks was the 3rd... Charles Martin was the 4th...

No, Frank Bruno was the 4th when he defended the WBC title against Tyson in 1996.
Bruno was visibly petrified during his ring walk.

Chepppaaa wrote:prime tyson

prime tua

You know you're wrong when you have to put prime first. Foreman would be more intimidating than 'prime' tua right now.

Duran at lightweight and I cant believe I'm first to say it

SteveO wrote:

Kalan wrote:Sonny Liston when he faced Floyd Patterson... after waiting for the opportunity for years... Patterson was the 1st Heavyweight Champion I've ever seen who looked scared to death... Joe Frazier was the 2nd... Michael Spinks was the 3rd... Charles Martin was the 4th...

No, Frank Bruno was the 4th when he defended the WBC title against Tyson in 1996.
Bruno was visibly petrified during his ring walk.

Seldon too.

Counter-puncher wrote:Duran at lightweight and I cant believe I'm first to say it

Hearns at 54.

Get a magical machine to size Duran up to 200lbs and he would make Tyson cry into his empty lunchbox

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Counter-puncher wrote:Duran at lightweight and I cant believe I'm first to say it

Hearns at 54.

Mmm good point. Duran at lightweight I just find utterly terrifying though, he still gets my vote.

Tyson made me nervous just watching him on TV......

I have a feeling if we had seen more of him (as in if he fought more recently) Liston would be getting a lot more mention here...
just a scary man....

The interesting thing is, for every guy who is soooooo intimidating, there is a guy out there who isn't scared and who ultimately proceeds
to beat the living hell out of him.....fascinating..

Honorable mention here, James Toney, another pretty scary guy...

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Counter-puncher wrote:Duran at lightweight and I cant believe I'm first to say it

Hearns at 54.

How about Qawi? The dude who beat the crap out of Saad, man, plus knowing where he came up from, that was a pretty intimidating dude. Obviously same applies to Saad himself now I mentioned him.