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Pick your favourite guy at his best and match him with someone
at their best who would murder him...see how you go...

I'll start....

Floyd Patterson, 6', 182lbs (1956-57) Vs Riddick Bowe 6'5 235lbs (1992)

( I guess many would argue that I have an easy one ;)

Robinson wrote:Pick your favourite guy at his best and match him with someone
at their best who would murder him...see how you go...

I'll start....

Floyd Patterson, 6', 182lbs (1956-57) Vs Riddick Bowe 6'5 235lbs (1992)

( I guess many would argue that I have an easy one ;)

I presume your favorite fighter is Riddick Bowe then...?

oh naturally...

Duran-Hearns - at welter.


Might have been a completely different story.

Marvin Hagler vs Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, or Mickey Walker. Tough fights for the Marvelous One.......

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Roberto Duran at 140 or 147lbs. Someone whose opinion I hold in very high regard once said to me, "If nothing else, Oscar is just plainly too nice a guy to be in the ring with Duran."

Not an unfair comment. I wouldn't want to see this one, & not because De La Hoya couldn't be competitive at either weight --- but simply because Duran would break him down as the rounds ticked over & possibly hurt him badly in the end

My favourite fighter:

OF ALL TIME: Rocky Marciano #1
OF MODERN DAY: Joe Calzaghe

I think Joe would suffer at the hand of a prime Evander Holyfield... (and we're talking at Light Heavyweight here)...
Hoylfield would beta the arse off of Joe...

#1 = see Marciano thread.

All of my favorite fighters can fight, so I haven't fathom, or never been so afraid of them in a murderous fight because their skills were extraordinary: Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali.

I did not know who to pick in the first Duran vs Leonard fight.

I was afraid of the fight of Duran with the great Marvin Hagler because to me, Duran was not in his prime when he fought Hagler, but still gave a great fight.

But one fight I think I would probably be very afraid if Duran was in his prime, was fighting the great Thomas Hearns at welterweight for a world welterweight title unification. That fight would have been a great fight. Not the one that happened 4 years later at a weight class that Duran could not handle, and Hearns was very comfortable and in his complete prime, while Duran was fading more and more. Hearns totally decapitated him. I got to give Hearns credit. But those were BAD CIRCUMSTANCES then for Duran at that time.

The Duran in Montreal that beat Leonard vs the Hearns in Detroit when he decapitated Pipino Cuevas...That would have been a fight. The year of 1980...what a year in boxing!!!