Your All-Time Favorite Fighters by Division

Vic, Beau Jack has a special place in my heart, because he was in the main event in the first PRO fight card my dad took me to...I saw the tornado that was Beau Jack many times after at MSG against Henry Armstrong, Tippy Larkin, Bob Montgomery, Al [Bummy ] Davis, Tony Janiro, Ike Williams in Philly etc, and every fight of his was action packed with his cyclonic attack. The great Beau Jack was ruined by bad management that booked him into about 60 tough bouts in 3-4 years. He started to burn out
by the time Ike Williams almost killed the brave Beau in Philly in 1948.
How i would love for our ESB posters to have seen Beau Jack in his prime !
We only have him on film I believe once against Ike Williams,in Philly which i and a boyhood friend traveled by bus to see. He was on the way out by this time. He ended up shining shoes at the famous Fountainbleu in Miami, Fl, broke but was befriended by Frank Sinatra,and other fans whom he gave so many thrills to. We all loved Beau Jack, who SOLD out the old MSG SEVEN times in ONE YEAR...Good ole Sidney Walker....Cheers V...

 

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Would really like to hear reasons and opinions too. I always thought Newsboy Brown quite forgotten and underrated in a really great era of flys. Panama Al brown, Kid Chocolate, Mc Larnin, Battalino, Larbaba, Genaro. Bushy Graham is another that doesnt get mentioned alot.


Very surprised if no-ones written a book on Nelson.

 

Minimumweight: Ricardo Lopez
Light Flyweight: Michael Carbajal
Flyweight: Fighting Harada
Super Flyweight: Vic Darchinyan
Bantamweight: Jeff Fenech
Super Bantamweight: Wilfredo Gomez
Featherweight: Erik Morales
Super Featherweight: Manny Pacquiao
Lightweight: Roberto Duran
Super Lightweight: Aaron Pryor
Welterweight: Oscar De La Hoya
Super Welterweight: Mike McCallum
Middleweight: Marvin Hagler
Super Middleweight: Roy Jones Jr.
Light Heavyweight: Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Cruiserweight: James Toney
Heavyweight: Mike Tyson

 

Heavyweight: Muhammad Ali
Light Heavyweight: Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Super Middleweight: Roy Jones
Middleweight: Bernard Hopkins
Light Middleweight: Thomas Hearns
Welterweight: SRL/SRR
Junior Welterweight: Roberto Duran :smoke
Lightweight: Edwin Rosario
Super Featherweight: Alexis Arguello
Featherweight: Jeff Fenech
Super Bantamweight: Wilfredo Gomez
Bantamweight: Jeff Chandler/Lupe Pintor

 

Don't forget Wee Willie Davies (who was better than just about all of them), Midget Wolgast, Black Bill, Spider Pladner and Corporal Izzy Schwartz.

Just an insanely tough division.

 

Heavyweight: Larry Holmes
Cruiserweight: None
Light Heavyweight: Harold Johnson
Super Middleweight: None (though I'm trying to like Andre Ward to keep some sort of an interest in the sport nowadays)
Middleweight: Marvin Hagler, Joey Archer, Joey Giardello, Yama Bahama
Light Middleweight: Winky Wright
Welterweight: Kid Gavilan, Billy Graham, Luis Federico Thomspon, Jose Napoles, Marlon Starling
Super Lightweight: Nicolino Locche, Buddy MCGirt, Packey MCFarland, Harold Brazier
Lightweight: Pernell Whitaker, Stevie Johnston, Ismael Laguna, Manuel Alvarez
Super Featherweight: None
Featherweight: Ernesto Marcel, Johnny Famechon, Jim Driscoll
Super Bantamweight: Jeff Fenech
Bantamweight: Miguel Lora
Super Flyweight: None
Flyweight: Miguel Canto, Mark Johnson, Betulio Gonzalez
Light Flyweight: Myung Woo Yuh
Straweight: None

 

Heavyweight - Joe Frazier, Jersey Joe Walcott.
Light Heavyweight - Ezzard Charles
Middleweight - Marvin Hagler
Welterweight - Carmen Basilio, Kid Gavilan
Lightweight - Roberto Duran, Ken Buchanan, Alexis Arguello.
Featherweight - Juan Manuel Marquez.

 

HW: Louis
CW: Holyfield
LHW: Saad Muhammad
SMW: Meh
MW: Hagler
JMW: McCallum
WW: Curry
JWW: Meh
LW: Mando Ramos
JLW: Arguello and Chacon
FW: Sanchez and Chacon
JFW: Israel Vasquez
BW: Israel Vasquez

 

Meh on 140 Sal'? Even though it features pugilistic masters such as Chavez, Locche, Cervantes, Fuji?!? Thought one of 'em would've tickled your fancy.

 

HW: Bugner, Young
CW: Entertainer Nelson
LHW: Tarver
SMW: Ottke
MW: Pender, Corro
JMW: DLH, Dagge
WW: Saxton
JWW: Arcari
LW: Vilomar Fernandez, Edwin Viruet
JLW: Serrano
FW: Jim McDonnell, Medina
JFW: Yum
BW: Ray Minus, Montiel
SFW: Greg Richardson
MIdget freaks: Calderon

 

Twat.

 

Ray Minus haha

 

Eh............I could pick Cervantes I guess, by default. Chavez I hate with the heat of a thousand suns, and Locche was a clown.