If you could resurrect/restore one boxer..

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  1. Lartize

    Lartize Active Member Full Member

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    On second thought.. the only person I MAY pick over Ali is Jack Johnson, because alot of my casual boxing friends at work watching Unforgivable Blackness and now think Johnson is the GOAT
     
  2. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :rofl it is a fantastic documentary though.
     
  3. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali,Sugar Ray Leonard or Roberto Duran.


    Would do nicely for starters.
     
  4. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :blood What the **** have you been smoking today Stevie?
     
  5. Lartize

    Lartize Active Member Full Member

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    Do you have type of sick vendetta against SRL and Duran? Why would you want to see their bodies broken and mangled by the HW's? of today? I mean.. I am sure SRL vs Wlad would sell tickets.. but jesus christ man..
     
  6. MadcapMaxie

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    I'm just saying he wouldn't compete at Heavy.

    He'd compete at Cruiser and even if he wiped the floor with everyone it wouldn't prove the point your trying to make. Assuming I assumed correctly the point you are making....yeah.

    I'd want Rocky to come back but given that he'd verse some cruisers i've never heard of probs wouldn't even be worth it. In that case someone like Ali or SRR should come back to excite the world about boxing again and beat the champs today.

    Could you imagine Robinson verse Pac or Mayweather? It would be awesome to watch him destroy them
     
  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :lol:

    Great answer.

    Yeah, Tyson is the one really. He makes boxing huge again, even now.

    But personally, I would go for Langford.
     
  8. janitor

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    So essentialy you have to rethink a lot if I am right, or even if I am half right.

    Now you see the reason for my pick.
     
  9. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's a much bigger 'if' for you to be right than wrong. You'd have to do a lot more rethinking if you were 'half right' as you'd also be half wrong as well.
     
  10. Leftsmash

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    Would Tony Galento be humiliated by todays HWs?
     
  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    I am a lot more forthright about the uncertainty in my predictions than others are, so I have a better exit strategy than you if I am half wrong.
     
  12. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Smokin Joe deserves a mention
     
  13. BillB

    BillB Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Liston.

    He's my number 1 despite the Clay/Ali farces.
     
  14. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Sven Ottke
     
  15. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Janitard be like The Architect from Matrix III. Dude types like he's wearing a suit and we're sat in a court case. It could be insightful, his grammar is exceptional, but most likely he's full of **** and is well aware, that Pachilles is aware, that he aware.