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Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 06:22
by semisports
Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.
Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:
Under 200 lbs.
Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 18:41
by actjac
semisports wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 06:22
Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.
Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:
Under 200 lbs.
Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks
Where is Gene Tunney?
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 18:48
by jezzamundo
actjac wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 18:41
semisports wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 06:22
Pick a weight and compile your all time tournament participants.
Mine involves those who have fought at or could make the weight limit:
Under 200 lbs.
Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks
Where is Gene Tunney?
I'd look at replacing RJJ with Tunney. I don't think Jones fairs well in that pool - he could win a couple of fights perhaps, but he's going to get knocked out a lot.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 18:56
by adislav123
1
Louis
Liston
Ali
Foreman
Holmes
Tyson
Bowe
Lewis
2
Foreman
Tyson
Bowe
Lennox
Vitali
Joshua
Fury
Ortiz
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:00
by oogiebe
Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)
1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:22
by gilgamesh
oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:00
Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)
1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel
Replace Emile Griffith with Gennady Golovkin, and Valdes with Harry Greb and I'm down.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:23
by oogiebe
gilgamesh wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:22
oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:00
Middleweight (out of who I liked more than the greatest maybe)
1 Carlos Monzon
2 Marvin Hagler
3 Ray Robinson
4 Rodrigo Valdes
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Bernard Hopkins
7 Emile Griffith
8 Stanley Ketchel
Replace Emile Griffith with Gennady Golovkin, and I'm down.
Pre Paret Griffith. When GGG is done and retired, I'll put him in! LOL!
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:27
by gilgamesh
Light Heavyweight
1. Archie Moore
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Michael Spinks
4. Bob Foster
5. Bob Fitzsimmons
6. Matthew Saad Muhammad
7. Roy Jones Jr.
8. Billy Conn
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:28
by gilgamesh
Featherweight
1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao
Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 19:31
by gilgamesh
This one will be fairly easy since it's a young division.
Super Middleweight
1. Andre Ward
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Carl Froch
4. James Toney
5. Roy Jones Jr.
6. Tommy Hearns
7. Chris Eubank
8. Nigel Benn
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 00:05
by actjac
Below 140 lbs.
Mayweather
Duran
Chavez
Whitaker
B. Leonard
Pacquiao
Armstrong
Pryor
Camacho
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 00:12
by Ricky
135 versions of
Pac
Floyd
Lomachenko
Armstrong
Duran
JMM
Morales
Mosley
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 03:36
by paddy chavez
154
Tommy Hearns
Sugar Ray Robinson
Terry Norris
Ray Leonard
Julian Jackson
Mike McCallum
Canello
Winky Wright
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 05:45
by NoScoutingReports
RKY wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 00:12
135 versions of
Pac
Floyd
Lomachenko
Armstrong
Duran
JMM
Morales
Mosley
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 05:59
by dagilechia
Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis
Vitali Klitschko
George Foreman
Evander Holyfield
Anthony Joshua
Oleksandr Usyk
Ali vs Usyk
Tyson vs Foreman
Lewis vs Joshua
Klitschko vs Holyfield
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 06:05
by dagilechia
Cruiserweight
Oleksandr Usyk
Evander Holyfield
Tomasz Adamek
David Haye
Yoan Pablo Hernandez
Marco Huck
Steve Cunningham
Denis Lebedev
Usyk vs Cunningham
Haye vs Hernandez
Holyfield vs Lebedev
Adamek vs Huck
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 06:54
by Ricky
dagilechia wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 05:59
Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis
Vitali Klitschko
George Foreman
Evander Holyfield
Anthony Joshua
Oleksandr Usyk
Ali vs Usyk
Tyson vs Foreman
Lewis vs Joshua
Klitschko vs Holyfield
I think your semi-finals end up 2 fights we've already seen (Ali/BGF & LL/VK). Lewis vs Ali is the real intrigue though, 2 best imo.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 11:21
by oogiebe
gilgamesh wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:28
Featherweight
1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao
Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.
I'd have Arguello in there.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 12:09
by klitoris
Heavyweight
Ali
Lewis
Tyson
V. Klitschko
Holmes
Bowe
W. Klitschko
Foreman
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 12:19
by klitoris
Cruiserweight
Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 12:22
by dagilechia
klitoris wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 12:19
Cruiserweight
Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson
oh God, i forgot about Drozd
then my CW tournament is:
Usyk vs Drozd
Haye vs Cunningham
Holyfield vs Lebedev
Adamek vs Huck
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 14:46
by semisports
klitoris wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 12:19
Cruiserweight
Usyk
Holyfield
Jirov
Bell
Drozd
Haye
Carlos de Leon
Nelson
I will match by under 200 lb. lineup against yours:
Evander Holyfield
Rocky Marciano
Roy Jones Jr.
Jack Dempsey
Oleksandr Usyk
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Michael Spinks
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 23:31
by Esquire
Featherweights. But only fighters I watched closely during their careers. Even with that caveat we could find 8 all-time great featherweights between the early 70's and now. We could easily find 12-16. All would be HOF'ers or well on their way to the Hall.
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 23:34
by Esquire
oogiebe wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 11:21
gilgamesh wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:28
Featherweight
1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao
Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.
I'd have Arguello in there.
Yes on Arguello. You could easily throw in Azumah Nelson, Eusebio Pedroza, Ruben Olivares and Jeff Fenech too. Who to leave out? Yikes!
Re: Your all time 8 man boxing tournament
Posted: 06 Dec 2018, 23:35
by oogiebe
Esquire wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 23:34
oogiebe wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 11:21
gilgamesh wrote: ↑05 Dec 2018, 19:28
Featherweight
1. Bobby Chacon
2. Erik Morales
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Willie Pep
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Manny Pacquiao
Lots of other great names you could include in there too. Danny "Little Red" Lopez would surely provide some thrills.
I'd have Arguello in there.
Yes on Arguello. You could easily throw in Azumah Nelson, Eusebio Pedroza, Ruben Olivares and Jeff Fenech too. Who to leave out? Yikes!
I always thought Olivares best days were at BW.