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So what fighters had the most charm, charisma and personality? An obvious one is of course Muhammad Ali and today Tyson Fury, name some more.

Camacho, Hamed, Mayorga, Carpentier, Siki, Galento to name a few.

Johnny Tapia

Mando Ramos, Art Aragon and Mickey Walker to name a few more.

Chris Eubank, Jorge Paez

John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Rocky Graziano and Ruben Olivares

Sugar Ray Robinson, Billy Conn, Jorge Arce, Oscar Bonavena, Roberto Duran.

Max Baer.

scartissue wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 10:15 John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Rocky Graziano and Ruben Olivares

Never remembered Ruben being big on personality.

The original "Big" sports personality ,The great John L. Sullivan of course.

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 12:07

scartissue wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 10:15 John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Rocky Graziano and Ruben Olivares

Never remembered Ruben being big on personality.

Clearly you didn’t frequent the same Cantinas that Ruben held court in. LOL!

scartissue wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 13:35

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 12:07

scartissue wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 10:15 John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Rocky Graziano and Ruben Olivares

Never remembered Ruben being big on personality.

Clearly you didn’t frequent the same Cantinas that Ruben held court in. LOL!

No I did not.

James Toney had a fun badass personality.

Randall "Tex" Cobb

Caractacus wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 16:04 Randall "Tex" Cobb

Beat me to it.

I'll make book that this thread will outlast "the Great Non Champions"We'll get names that are unimaginable and the usual share of insults. The key,howver,is that you have to start a list.

dagosd2000 wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 20:47 I'll make book that this thread will outlast "the Great Non Champions"We'll get names that are unimaginable and the usual share of insults. The key,howver,is that you have to start a list.

Que Elmersalsa.

Don King was not a boxer, but he had a hell of a personality that's for sure!

Cholo_cws wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 19:12

Caractacus wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 16:04 Randall "Tex" Cobb

Beat me to it.

Tex . What a character. My greatest accomplishment in boxing was getting Howard Cosell out of it. I like the story when he tested positive for marijuana and he said he was doing roadwork on the beach and he ran through a cloud of smoke of a few smoking it.

f read wrote: ↑08 May 2021, 05:38

Cholo_cws wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 19:12

Caractacus wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 16:04 Randall "Tex" Cobb

Beat me to it.

Tex . What a character. My greatest accomplishment in boxing was getting Howard Cosell out of it. I like the story when he tested positive for marijuana and he said he was doing roadwork on the beach and he ran through a cloud of smoke of a few smoking it.

My favorite 'Cobbism' was "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15 love. If you screw up in boxing, it's yer ass!"

I think the guys that picked Max Baer and Randy Cobb were right on the money for this subject matter. True characters. I would also add to this list of 'personalities' the names of Jack 'Kid' Berg, Lew Jenkins, Toluco Lopez, Panama Al Brown and Angel Robinson Garcia. Garcia, like Olivares, didn't let a minor thing like training get in the way of a good time.

Bruce "the Mouse" Strauss


Mitch "Blood" Green

Jack Johnson. Willie Pastrano. Lloyd Honeyghan. Lou Nova. Pancho Villa. Livingstone Bramble. Mike Tyson.

Controversial wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 07:31 So what fighters had the most charm, charisma and personality? An obvious one is of course Muhammad Ali and today Tyson Fury, name some more.

I don't find Fury to have any of those qualities. Acting like a complete idiot at any opportunity and talking complete bullshit doesn't make you a personality.

Monzon83 wrote: ↑08 May 2021, 22:25

Controversial wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 07:31 So what fighters had the most charm, charisma and personality? An obvious one is of course Muhammad Ali and today Tyson Fury, name some more.

I don't find Fury to have any of those qualities. Acting like a complete idiot at any opportunity and talking complete bullshit doesn't make you a personality.

He can say some silly things but often it's because he's trying to sell a fight. He's good talker when he's being sensible, when he's been interviewed on chat shows he comes across well I think. The after fight singing, dressing up as batman etc, all adds to the spectacle. He is certainly a life and soul, centre of attention type.

Controversial wrote: ↑07 May 2021, 07:31 So what fighters had the most charm, charisma and personality? An obvious one is of course Muhammad Ali and today Tyson Fury, name some more.

Hector Camacho i would say would fall into this category. He certainly was outrageous and used to wear some interesting attire into the ring.