The Original 8 divisions: Pick your greatest fighter

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  1. Vano-Irons

    Vano-Irons Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    I'm putting together a series of articles based on the greatest fighters of the original 8 weigh classes. But rather than me picking the fighters I believe to be the best, I want the public to vote. Of course, choosing 1 fighter per weight class will be next to impossible. So, you are allowed 3 Honourable Mentions per division ie, Heavyweight All Time Champion, Ali. Honourable Mentions Louis, Tyson and Holmes

    So, let me have it.

    Flyweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable mentions

    Bantamweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mentions

    Featherweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mentions

    Lightweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mentions

    Welterweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mentions

    Middleweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mentions

    LightHeavyweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable Mention

    Heavyweight All Time Champion:
    Honourable mentions
     
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  2. Vano-Irons

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    Sorry had no idea there was a sticky on this
     
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  3. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Heavyweight- Joe Louis
    Lightheavyweight- Billy Conn
    Middleweight- Carlos Monzon
    Welterweight- Sugar Ray Robinson
    Lightweight- Roberto Duran
    Featherweight- Willie Pep
    Bantamweight- Eder Jofre
    Flyweight- Miguel Canto
     
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  4. Vano-Irons

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    Don't forget Cobra, I need your 3 Honourable Mentions per division as well :good
     
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  5. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :lol:Yeah, there's that.
     
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  6. Vano-Irons

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    Flea informed me on the Brit :patsch

    For a laugh, I've posted this in the general as well. How many will say Doniare is the best Bantam ever :lol:
     
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  7. Vano-Irons

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    You mean they ain't!?!? :lol:

    Thanks for your list
     
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  8. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Hw: louis
    Lhw: charles
    Mw: greb
    Ww: robinson
    Lw: duran
    Fw: pep
    Bw: jofre
    Flw: wilde
     
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  9. Vano-Irons

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    Come on LUFC! your a good poster, so I expect your 3 Honourable Mentions per division soon enough :good
     
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  10. Flea Man

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    Bus Station>Wilde
     
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  11. Vano-Irons

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    :finger :finger :finger

    Wilde p4p hardest puncher ever, greatest Flyweight ever, and greatest British fighter ever (if Fitzsimmons isn't counted) :D
     
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  12. Flea Man

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    Nah.
     
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  13. Flea Man

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    Bus Station>Wilde.

    Anyway, Wilde gets more for his P4P achievements with his wins over Lynch. At Flyweight, who? YZK and 1-1 with Tancy Lee.

    And with a division as stacked at Fly, including Canto, Harada, Ebihara, Lynch, Villa, Shirai, Perez, how can there be 'no exceptions'?

    I have little issues with Wilde being no.1, but given the wealth of info' we have on other great FLYWEIGHTS I can see no problem with any of them being no.1.
     
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  14. Flea Man

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    As I say, wholly understandable and reasonable to do so.

    The man in my avatar is Bus Station.

    For Flyweight I have:
    Champion: Canto
    Hon: Wilde, Lynch, Perez.
     
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  15. Flea Man

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    Ohba is a guy I stupidly omitted from my long list of quality Flys. A really dense division, if you asked for everyone's top 15 I reckon some places would drastically shift list-to-list.

    EDIT: Wolgast, Newsboy, Marino, Labarba, Betulio, still barely touching the sides.
     
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