When you weren't boxing connoisseurs...

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  1. Boxing2019

    Boxing2019 If you want peace, prepare war. banned Full Member

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    Today many here are connoisseurs of boxing ...but there was a time in your life when you didnt know anything about boxing...you didnt know what was a jab, an uppercut, a hook...you didnt know what the word peek-a-boo meant, you didnt know the difference between a slugger fighter and a puncher...and many many other things.
    Well, when you watched for the first time videos of boxers in action who did you judge the best fighter without being boxing connoisseurs?
     
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  2. The Morlocks

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    What??????????
     
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  3. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Easy. Mike Tyson
     
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  4. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I don't understand the question, but this seems like the right answer.
     
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  5. channy

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    Ike Williams
     
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    When I was a kid Hagler ! Looked as hard as nails
     
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    My first memory from childhood Gatti Ward!
    Two warriors that made me like boxing!
    But I listened stories from my grandparents abaout how Foreman moved Frazier like a ping pong ball!
    I listened their and my father stories about 60s,70s,80s and 90s fighters!
    But my grandmothers father met Schmelling in Germany after ww2 and listened their fights with Louis on early yugoslav radio!
     
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  8. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Way past my chance of understanding
     
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  9. Bronze Tiger

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    I was a casual boxing fan until I saw Roy Jones vs James Toney ....wow .....and he came to the ring wearing a white tuxedo....I fell in love with boxing that night
     
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    Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson!
    I wanted to know who was the man Ali had bested in his most famed photo a Google search brought up his name and the gutting of a beloved champion in Patterson.
     
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  11. Boxing2019

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    Read the text of the thread now, I changed it :thumbsup:
     
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    Much easier to understand, thanks.

    I'd say GGG, then Joshua and Wilder to a lesser extent. GGG is definitely the #1 though, his fighter profile on my dad's skybox is what got me into the sport, and the Jacobs fight was my first time watching a live fight on TV.
     
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    When I was a child I remember there was much talk of Spinks whose name sounded like Sphinx and therefore I thought that with that name he had to be too much for sure...so I watched some of his fights and I realized he was really strong...but then Tyson appeared and he destroyed Spinks and to deal with it I started thinking Tyson was the best ever...of course today I dont think so anymore.
     
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    Ali.
    I used to think he was the only special boxer, and that all the others were a supporting cast that didn't matter.
     
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  15. Richard M Murrieta

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    Floyd Patterson was a good man and a good champion.
     
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