YOUR! top ten boxers ever!

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  1. kirky c

    kirky c white mike Full Member

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    Not whos got the perfect record or whos technically the best but the top ten fighter who you love or loved to watch or inspired you. They dont have been world champs or atg's.

    1. ricky hatton
    2. nigel benn
    3. mike tyson
    4. david tua
    5. riddick bowe
    6. prince naz
    7. joe frazier
    8. miguel cotto
    9. marvin hagler
    10. tommy morrison
     
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  2. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    This is more a list of who I grew up reading about or watching fight. In no particular order.

    Leonard
    Ali
    Don Curry
    Archie Moore
    Jack Dempsey (helped define an era. Destroyed Willard, the Battle of the Long Count, punched out of the ring etc)
    Graziano-Zale (loved reading about their trilogy of fights when I was a kid)
    Tyson (for all his faults put some much needed life in the HW division)
    Tommy Hearns
    Roberto Duran
    Ray Robinson
    Willie Pep.
     
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  3. Dan684

    Dan684 Dave's Stepdad Full Member

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    The fact you had to put comments in brackets for Dempsey and Graziano/Zale says to me you're trying hard to justify your choice. Put up YOUR favourite fighters not other people's favourite fighters that you've heard about. Very 'Greg-Esque' of you there Gary :good
     
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  4. Dan684

    Dan684 Dave's Stepdad Full Member

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    Barrera
    Whitaker
    Mayweather
    Marquez
    Vazquez
    Toney
    Tyson
    De La Hoya
    Moore
    Gatti
     
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  5. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Don't be a dick Dan. If I was trying be deliberately "cool" or obscure I'd have the likes of Langford, Burley, Locche in the list.

    That list is genuine list of a combination of the fighters I grew up watching in the early 80s and reading about in my Old Mans boxing encyclopedias. They inspired me as a kid to take a real interest in boxing

    If you read the opening thread the question is boxers "you loved to watch or inspired you", its not just asking for a favourite boxers list or I'd probably put Hatton in there somewhere.

    Now **** off and go and pick a fight with one of the Scottish posters.
     
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  6. toffeejack

    toffeejack Boxing Addict Full Member

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    From late 80s onwards.

    1. Joe Calzaghe
    2. Mike Tyson
    3. Manny Pacquiao
    4. Naseem Hamed
    5. Nigel Benn
    6. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
    7. Chris Eubank
    8. Marco Antonio Barrera
    9. Bernard Hopkins
    10. Oscar De la Hoya
     
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  7. DrMo

    DrMo Team GB Full Member

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    Favourites of mine,

    1. Duran
    2. Marciano
    3. Locche
    4. Benn
    5. Morales
    6. Roy J-Jr
    7. Hamed
    8. Whitaker
    9. Mayweather
    10. Gatti
     
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  8. brown bomber

    brown bomber 2010 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    1. Joe Louis
    2. Gatti
    3. Robinson
    4. Chavez
    5. Duran
    6. Cotto
    7. De la Hoya
    8. Don curry
    9. Ali
    10. Naz
     
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  9. avo

    avo I Got Milk Baby!!! Full Member

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    tyson
    frazier
    roy jones jr
    hamed
    mayweather
    leonard
    wladimir klitchsko
    ray robinson
    lennox lewis
    de la hoya
     
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  10. Dan684

    Dan684 Dave's Stepdad Full Member

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    :lol::lol::|:|:|:|
     
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  11. Davew430

    Davew430 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Not a list of my favourite ever, can't be doing that at the moment my brain isn't working well at the moment, but these are a few i admire...


    Oscar De La Hoya
    Floyd Mayweather
    Wladimir Klitschko
    Ray Robinson
    Harry Greb
    Sam Langford
    Lennox Lewis
    Erik Morales
    Roy Jones
    Bernard Hopkins
    Roberto Duran
     
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  12. Hitmanfan

    Hitmanfan KO King Full Member

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    1. A-Force
    2. Stefy Bull
    3. Sven Ottke
    4. Julius Francis
    5. Tocker Pudwill
    6. Carl The fridge Baker
    7. Tony Jeffries
    8. Grant Bovey
    9. Ron Collins
    10. SRR
     
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  13. TFFP

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    I can't think of a 10 right now...but 3 of my favorites from times gone by are definitely...

    Monzon - Beautiful fighter to watch. Never fancy but always perfect in everything he did inside the ring. Textbook stuff.

    McCallum - Whats not to like? Ridiculous competition, double hard *******, technically near perfect.

    Duran - To me he was the most complete 'fighter' ever. He wasn't the best boxer ever, but he was the greatest all-round fighter and could do everything better than everyone else.
     
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  14. TFFP

    TFFP The Eskimo

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    This is the most angry I've seen Gaz. Ever. :shock:
     
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  15. TFFP

    TFFP The Eskimo

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    ****, forgot Whitaker. Good call Dan. + Kessler obviously (more than Calzaghe, I liked Calzaghe obviously and think he's so underrated H2H against pretty much anyone, but a lot of it was just winding people up and going against the grain on here where a lot of people disliked 'Slappy Joe' and it got annoying).
     
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