Top 5 favorite boxers and why. Any era , Any weight class..

Rocky Marciano - The most determined, dedicated, disciplined fighter that ever lived
Joe Frazier - Heart, grit, in-fighting, action fighter with great determination/skills
Ali - Spartan warrior in the ring with grace and speed. Great personality & wit outside of it.
Carmen Basilio - Tough SOB. No quit in him. Solid fighter.
Evander Holyfield - Crowd-pleasing, great skills, incredible will. Versatile fighter.

After the top 3 it cuts tougher for me. The last two can be interchanged for a host of many fighters I enjoy/like.

 

Oscar
Pea
Jones
Greb
Ali

So many great skills amongst them. Ride or die baby.

 

I love Oscar and Whitaker its not a secret. I collect memorabiiia from both actually haha, guilty pleasure, but whatever, boxing stuff is cheap.

 

Good man. Oscar stuff is hard to come by (authentically) but Whitaker stuff is so cheap. as is Jones jr. I have a signed Pea card I got for like 40 bucks and a Jones sig'd card for 25 bucks. I'm fighting for a Pea Sports Illustrated signed right now actually for 80 bucks.

Oskee ****ing cost me my damned right buttocks for it.

 

Jack Dempsey - Rugged fast handed brawler, always exiting
Tony Zale - Best body puncher in history and tough as nails
Joe Louis - The greatest Heavyweight Champion (not heavyweight but heavyweight champion)
Jersey Joe Walcott - How can you not like the Wallcott shuffle and all of his moves
Sonny Liston - The long jab hard straight right and amazing left hook, always fun to watch

Maybe Roberto Duran at 5 not sure though

 

Lotsa heavyweight love :smoke

 

Some pretty good ones out there, Greb would be in my favourite but havn't seen him fight so yeah
Duran would probably replace Liston but i just prefer his fights with Williams so i have him there

 

randy turpin
ken buchanan
benny lynch
jack kid berg
nigel benn

 

ali - incredible speed and cast iron chin never been a heavyweight like him also funny guy
liston - the epitomy of a badass
duran - greatest lightweight ever not only agressive but also very talented
frazier - never give up mentality
jack dempsey - incredible ferocious heavyweight with great speed and power

 

favourite americans
sonny liston
ezzard charles
joe louis
lew jenkins
ike williams

plus hundreds more

 

Jersey Joe Walcott
Ezzard Charles
Lloyd Marshall, all 3 skillfull clever class acts, among the best fighters in history and from the greatest era too.

Jock McAvoy & Bert Gilroy arguably Britain's greatest middleweights, also from the best era ever and for MW's, including the fact that your own weight was'nt enough but men were always fighting UP in those days and these two personified it more than any other British MW's.

Honorable mention to Robert Villemain, again from the best era, but this 'little' WW cum MW is whom I call "the Proof Fighter", Villemain IS PROOF that the TOP Foreign fighters were as good or better than their American rivals, just look who this 'little' MW fought, beat and gave hell too.