Who is Boxrec. most popular fighter from the past.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 19:43
Post your favorite,and WHY. Lets see who wears the belt.I have a feeling its gonna be a certain undefeated champ from Brockton Ma.
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Who is Boxrec. most popular fighter from the past.
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Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 20:18
My absolute favourite is Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 20:28
Young Stribling has been my favorite old timer for years. He fought in virtually every weight class and would take on anyone, anywhere. He fought at every weight class from 128 to heavyweight, and performed well in all of them. Not many guys that started at 128 could give guys like Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey tough fights, but Stribling did.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 21:10
Jim Jeffires.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 21:55
Hey I'm not fallin for this one. If I tell you, then when I speak of this fighter in the forum people will suspect I'm not always fair and balanced in my opinions. And as everyone knows, such is not the case.
So no dice.
So no dice.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 22:06
Thomas 'Fatty' Langtry
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/images/w0405-fat.jpg
Remember "barry bullshit" claiming there were no fat oafs in the old days?
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/images/w0405-fat.jpg
Remember "barry bullshit" claiming there were no fat oafs in the old days?
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 22:14
Whaddya sayin? Fatty aint cut and svelt?
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 22:14
B.B. your given ole Expug way too much credit for being smart enough to think up something like that.BoxBuzz wrote:Hey I'm not fallin for this one. If I tell you, then when I speak of this fighter in the forum people will suspect I'm not always fair and balanced in my opinions. And as everyone knows, such is not the case.
So no dice.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 22:16
Joe Louis/Thomas Hearns
Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 22:39
ok well current crop probably Kostya Tszyu though he'll be "boxers of the past" very soon. And older guard I'm pretty impressed with Archie Moore's career.
Going back further I like Tunney and Joe Jeanette.
Going back further I like Tunney and Joe Jeanette.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 05:09
I generally don't like youDecagon wrote:I generally don't like boxers.
Just kidding of course...but I'm kidding on the square...
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 05:21
Ezzard Charles
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 06:40
Hard to pick one but if I had to I'd pick Ali, Duran and Bobby Chacon... oh! thats three isn't it!!.... :x :x 8) 
8) Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 06:53
Mike Tyson
Jack Dempsey
Lennox Lewis
Larry holmes
Those are all my fave fighters of all time
Jack Dempsey
Lennox Lewis
Larry holmes
Those are all my fave fighters of all time
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 07:39
Sonny Liston and Jack Johnson at heavyweight. Lower weights would be Roberto Duran and Henry Armstrong.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 08:08
Lennox is my favorite. Also Hagler, Benn and Duran.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 08:20
Henry Armstrong
Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 09:17
My favourite fighter is Marvin Hagler, with Nigel Benn in second place, Lennox Lewis third
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 09:54
My 5 favorite fighters were:
1. Roberto Duran: Boyhood hero
2. Muhammad Ali: Everybody, almost everybody loved this guy
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Eusebio Pedroza
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
My other favorites were: Bobby Chacon, James Toney, Mike Tyson (the 80s version that kicked your ass as fast that you can read this and kissed you go home) Riddick Bowe
1. Roberto Duran: Boyhood hero
2. Muhammad Ali: Everybody, almost everybody loved this guy
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Eusebio Pedroza
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
My other favorites were: Bobby Chacon, James Toney, Mike Tyson (the 80s version that kicked your ass as fast that you can read this and kissed you go home) Riddick Bowe
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Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:11
1. Terry McGovern
1. Sam Langford
1. Henry Armstrong
"Barbados" Joe Walcott
Danny Lopez
Rodolfo "El Gato" Gonzalez
"Tiger" Jack Fox
Alabama Kid
Bob Satterfield
"Mysterious" Billy Smith
Wilfredo Gomez
Julian Jackson
1. Sam Langford
1. Henry Armstrong
"Barbados" Joe Walcott
Danny Lopez
Rodolfo "El Gato" Gonzalez
"Tiger" Jack Fox
Alabama Kid
Bob Satterfield
"Mysterious" Billy Smith
Wilfredo Gomez
Julian Jackson
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:31
I just want to ask something which I find quite baffling. When people put their favorite boxers I would assume they are doing so because of watching them box and getting to know and like the fighter during interviews etc etc. I also think who you watch as a kid tends to sway your opinions. So what I don't understand is why people choose fighters who they are unlikely to have seen all their fights or were not born when they fought, well unless they are 100+!
I'm not knocking anyone's choices but could people who have chosen people who they couldn't have seen all their fights or were not born when they fought, why they have chosen them. Barry why for example have you chosen alot of the guys on your list? And I'm not starting trouble!!!
It seems to me people have chosen people because of their records and because of what they have heard about them rather than who they have seen.
I'm not knocking anyone's choices but could people who have chosen people who they couldn't have seen all their fights or were not born when they fought, why they have chosen them. Barry why for example have you chosen alot of the guys on your list? And I'm not starting trouble!!!
It seems to me people have chosen people because of their records and because of what they have heard about them rather than who they have seen.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:34
top 5 from the past....
5. Marciano
4. Moore
3. Hearns
2. Hagler
1. Tyson <--- I stam still in awe of this man 18 years after he was IRON MIKE
Guess I like bangers huh?
5. Marciano
4. Moore
3. Hearns
2. Hagler
1. Tyson <--- I stam still in awe of this man 18 years after he was IRON MIKE
Guess I like bangers huh?
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:38
where there is not much film you have to go on what you've read and a few of my favourite fighters are ketchel,mcgovern,driscoll and wilde.
more recent i really like sal sanchez,duran,arguello and gomez,not forgetting my current favourite ricky hatton.
more recent i really like sal sanchez,duran,arguello and gomez,not forgetting my current favourite ricky hatton.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:45
But Dalek don't you think you need to see a fighter box to say is one of your favorites? I mean I love Ali but thats more from old footage, interviews etc. Butbecause I wasn't around when he was I can't say he is one of my favorites which is why I've gone for boxers I've grown up with.
Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 10:46
Arsenal wrote:I just want to ask something which I find quite baffling. When people put their favorite boxers I would assume they are doing so because of watching them box and getting to know and like the fighter during interviews etc etc. I also think who you watch as a kid tends to sway your opinions. So what I don't understand is why people choose fighters who they are unlikely to have seen all their fights or were not born when they fought, well unless they are 100+!
I'm not knocking anyone's choices but could people who have chosen people who they couldn't have seen all their fights or were not born when they fought, why they have chosen them. Barry why for example have you chosen alot of the guys on your list? And I'm not starting trouble!!!
It seems to me people have chosen people because of their records and because of what they have heard about them rather than who they have seen.
In many ways it's easier to like someone you've never seen or who it is diffcult to find out about. Also the eras themselves add a lot to these legends.