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If you are talking modern Marquis of Queensberry rules, its John L. Sullivan (1885). If you are talking modern bareknuckle, its English Champion James Figg (1719). If you are talking all the way back to the Olympics in Greece, the first recorded champion was Onamastus (688 BC).

onamastus had what many experts say is the greatest right hook of all time. i would tend to agree. if you watch him on film, he hits with unbeleivable power and strength

Rory McCloskey wrote:onamastus had what many experts say is the greatest right hook of all time. i would tend to agree. if you watch him on film, he hits with unbeleivable power and strength

He would definitely be the heavyweight champ of the world if he was fighting in today's heavyweight division

Rory McCloskey wrote:onamastus had what many experts say is the greatest right hook of all time. i would tend to agree. if you watch him on film, he hits with unbeleivable power and strength

onamasus KO 1 vitali Klitschko

easily...but i dont think vitali would take this fight. hes simply too small and to outmatched.

in all seriousness the guy was probly around 5 feet tall 110 pounds

Rory McCloskey wrote:in all seriousness the guy was probly around 5 feet tall 110 pounds

What if: Onamastus vs. Ivan Calderon

Rory McCloskey wrote:onamastus had what many experts say is the greatest right hook of all time. i would tend to agree. if you watch him on film, he hits with unbeleivable power and strength

HAHAHAHAHA blessed by the mighty zues, onamastus defeated Cyclops in the planets first "mortal" battle of fisticuffs.
here we see a memorial statue commemorating Onamastus the worlds first mortal champion of fisticuffs.
http://www.wsgfl.org.uk/schools/oakfiel ... /gods8.png

The WBC would make onamastus shave his beard off.

but they would have been hard pressed to change the rules of attire, naked covered in oil boxing in the sand!

I don't know, I think Cleitomachus could have taken Onamastus. Not only was Cleitomachus the boxing champion, but was also the pancranium champion.

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Athletes.htm

Scroll down a little to read a short piece on him.

sherlock,

you have to study the tapes in this one. as you see in the picture above this post, of onamastus, you can clearly see that he was RIPPED. i have seen Cleitomachus fight several times, and i am really not all that impressed i think he was very susseptable to uppercuts, and i think onamastus would probly catch cleitomachus with a viscous uppercut in round 500.

i think if you really wanted to fight a challenge for cleomates, you would have to look at the often overlooked and underrated, cleomates was rumored to have even killed a man in the ring. he went psycho after a home town decision and killed a bunch of kids, but a prime cleomates was godlike, i see him taking onamastus out in 2.

this is too much

correct me if im wrong but he did wanna know about the first heavyweight champion....here they are

Rory McCloskey wrote:sherlock,

you have to study the tapes in this one. as you see in the picture above this post, of onamastus, you can clearly see that he was RIPPED. i have seen Cleitomachus fight several times, and i am really not all that impressed i think he was very susseptable to uppercuts, and i think onamastus would probly catch cleitomachus with a viscous uppercut in round 500.

i think if you really wanted to fight a challenge for cleomates, you would have to look at the often overlooked and underrated, cleomates was rumored to have even killed a man in the ring. he went psycho after a home town decision and killed a bunch of kids, but a prime cleomates was godlike, i see him taking onamastus out in 2.

Maybe I do overrate Cleito a little bit, I was a pal of his. We used to hit the town, hitting the town baths, carrying off women, looting the provinces...But you must have seen Cleito's left hook, it makes Joe Frazier look like a primadonna.

But neither Cleitomachus nor Onamastus could match Theagenes of Thrace. He makes both look like pre-pubecent little flowergirls.

BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:

Rory McCloskey wrote:onamastus had what many experts say is the greatest right hook of all time. i would tend to agree. if you watch him on film, he hits with unbeleivable power and strength

onamasus KO 1 vitali Klitschko

Onomastus had no Don King

Sherlock wrote:

Rory McCloskey wrote:sherlock,

you have to study the tapes in this one. as you see in the picture above this post, of onamastus, you can clearly see that he was RIPPED. i have seen Cleitomachus fight several times, and i am really not all that impressed i think he was very susseptable to uppercuts, and i think onamastus would probly catch cleitomachus with a viscous uppercut in round 500.

i think if you really wanted to fight a challenge for cleomates, you would have to look at the often overlooked and underrated, cleomates was rumored to have even killed a man in the ring. he went psycho after a home town decision and killed a bunch of kids, but a prime cleomates was godlike, i see him taking onamastus out in 2.

Maybe I do overrate Cleito a little bit, I was a pal of his. We used to hit the town, hitting the town baths, carrying off women, looting the provinces...But you must have seen Cleito's left hook, it makes Joe Frazier look like a primadonna.

But neither Cleitomachus nor Onamastus could match Theagenes of Thrace. He makes both look like pre-pubecent little flowergirls.

i understand sherlock..its hard to get past these friendships when u are matching these great boxers up..without a doubt cleito was a great guy, i even got his autograph when i was really young .

im very impressed that you brought up Theagenes of Thrace. i forgot about him. he is IMO a top 15 P4P fighter.

Rob Calloway would have beaten them all on the same night :-)

i know.. many consider him the father of southpaw, lefty magic baby..lefty magic

Milos of Croton would have squahed them all like bugs. He'd have taken Onamastus apart like a roasted chicken in a mess hall.

clearly... milos of croton is one of the most overrated wins of all time... his win against cleito was a hometown decision..even the gods got angry and zeus killed milos. which explains his death at age 18. poor poor milos