Who's the toughest fighter of all time?

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  1. BundiniBlack

    BundiniBlack Well-Known Member Full Member

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    1) Antonio Margarito
    2) Antonio Margarito 2nd half of the Pacquiao fight
     
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  2. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    People who name a recent fighter, probably don't understand toughness!
     
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  3. boxfan22

    boxfan22 Active Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali is the toughest fighter of all time. He took george foreman's best shots and earnie shavers bombs and was still standing. Ali also let george chuvalo hit him multiple times to the body and shook it off like it was nothing.
     
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  4. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :yep I went to college with Chesty Puller's grandson. He was a Wildman our freshman yr.
     
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  5. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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  6. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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  7. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    George Chuvalo, Sam Langford, Harry Greb, Ali, Nigel Benn, Jorge Castro, Battling Nelson, Rocky Kansas...
     
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  8. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    I saw an exhibition of modern toughness last night. Christian Rebrasse against Callum Smith, Provodnikov v Mathysse was quite startling too.

    Back in time Joe Grimm.
     
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  9. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah, I saw that fight too. That is one tough Frenchman!
     
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  10. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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  11. FreshPrince

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    Jim Jeffries deserves a mention too.

    In his prime, he could give and take severe punishment. Fitzsimmons broke his nose and cut both his eyes, only to be knocked out in the eighth.

    Sharkey, Corbett, Burns, Johnson, and others called him the greatest. Dempsey said he would've been beaten by him. Langford refused to fight him.
     
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  12. ribtickler68

    ribtickler68 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Eubank was a tough ****er, in his own way. I thought he had ***** of steel.
     
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  13. newby johnson

    newby johnson Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Interesting, basically no concensus, I would have thought there'd be some very notable example everyone would agree on, or at least a few instances like that around which votes would cluster.
     
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  14. FastHands(beeb)

    FastHands(beeb) Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Damn right!

    If anyone doesn't appreciate how tough Saad was, they weren't there at the time.

    In simple terms, the reason he was stopped so many times so late in his career was because he was so tough and took such punishment in his prime. Sometimes the numbers don't tell the real story...
     
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  15. he grant

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    Joe Gans , already past his best and suffering from some degree of the tuberculosis that would eventually kill him fought a younger Battling Nelson under a desert sun and terrible catch weight conditions .. he inflicted brutal punishment and survived horrendous multiple fouls from the racist Dame to finally prevail in the 42nd round .. that's pretty damn tough to me ..
     
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