Your 15 favourite fighters!

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  1. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    Pretty simple thread, I just want to hear your top fifteen i wouldn’t even mind hearing your reasons why they’re in your fifteen

    Here is mine~
    Muhammad Ali
    Fighting Harada
    Kostya Tszyu
    Roberto Duran
    Ricardo Lopez
    Matthew Saad
    Emile Griffith
    Sun Kil Moon
    Chris Eubanks Snr
    Floyd Patterson
    Mike Tyson
    George Foreman
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Jersey Joe Walcott
    Rocky Marciano

    This was a very hard list to write, I’ve had at least twenty five different fighters I’ve called my favourite from one time or another, so this list is not concrete but I thought it could generate discussion. (No particular order) bar the top five.
     
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  2. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No order

    Willie the worm Monroe
    Bobby Boogaloo Watts
    Frank Fletcher
    Joltin Jeff Chandler
    Bad Bennie Briscoe
    Eugene Cyclone Hart
    Tyrone Everett
    Bernard Hopkins
    Meldrick Taylor
    Bob Montgomery
    Gypsy Joe Harris
    Stanley Kitten Hayward
    Matthew Saad Muhammad
    Joe Frazier
    Tommy Loughran
     
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  3. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    Good list! Now my list, but there are more fighters than 15, which I like. (no particular order)

    Muhammad Ali
    Joe Louis
    Lennox Lewis
    Rocky Marciano
    Max Schmeling
    Marvin Hagler
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Rocky Graziano
    Bob Foster
    Archie Moore
    Nicolino Locche
    Willie Pep
    Roy Jones Jr.
    Joe Calzaghe
    Mikkel Kessler

    (Furthermore: Henry Armstrong, Vitali Klitschko, Karl Mildenberger, Teofilo Stevenson, Thomas Hearns...)
     
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  4. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I bet I can guess your favorite football team too...lol
     
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  5. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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  6. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    Well, I grew up with VK fights, he had many fights in my country and he had a good fighting spirit. I know, that some boxing fans don't appreciate him, but I don't care.
     
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  7. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I feel like after the eighth guy, I can really have about 20 guys in their place, and the order can really go any which way.

    #15. Joe Frazier
    #14. Emile Griffith
    #13. Evander Holyfield
    #12. Saad Muhammad
    #11. Ruben Olivares
    #10. Chucho Castillo
    #09. Fighting Harada
    #08. Carl Thompson
    #07. Gerry Penalosa
    #06. Veeraphol Sahaprom
    #05. Marvin Hagler
    #04. Erik Morales
    #03. Michael Watson
    #02. Marvin Johnson
    #01. Ezzard Charles
     
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  8. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hmm
    Ali
    Marciano
    Archie Moore
    George Foreman
    Max Baer
    Liston
    Roy Jones
    Mayweather
    Joe Louis
    Joe Frazier
    Evander
    Oscar Delahoya
    Hopkins
    Tua
    JJ Walcott
     
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  9. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    no particular order
    Jerry Quarry
    Alberto Davila
    Alexis Arguello
    Roberto Duran
    Lupe Pintor
    Chucho Castillo
    Danny Lopez
    John Conteh
    Julio Cesar Chavez
    Mario Martinez
    Manny Pacquiao
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Tony Canzoneri
    Lou Ambers
    Salvador Sanchez
     
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  10. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I was honestly 100% sure I'd see a Scouse BW from the 60s in there, somewhere.
     
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  11. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :) i purposely left out any of dad's opponents as well even though they're amongst my favourites.
     
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  12. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    grew up with the klitschkos, oscar, mayweather, marquez, hopkins

    try to emulate holmes, holyfield, norton, and kessler in the gym

    i like to watch duran, hagler, pryor, tyson, arguello, mancini, robinson, ali, frazier, pacquiao, gatti, marciano, moore, quarry

    theres really too many fighters to narrow it down so much
     
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  13. drenlou

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    Johnny Tapia
    Fernando Vargas
    Kelly Pavlik
    Marvin Hagler
    Hector Camacho
    Danny lil red Lopez
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Mike Tyson
    Evander Holyfield
    Alexis Arguello
    Bazooka Limon
    Tommy Hearns
    Julio cesar Chavez
    Pernell whitaker
     
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  14. BELLERS

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    Tony Sibson
    Mike Tyson
    Marvin Hagler
    Nigel Benn
    Barry McGuigan
    Tommy Hearns
    Roberto Duran
    Ray Leonard
    Chris Pyatt
    Ali
    Chris Eubank snr
    Ray Mancini
    Joe Calzaghe
    Boza Edwards
    Azumah Nelson
     
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  15. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Eder Jofre
    Juan Manuel Marquez
    Felix Trinidad
    Carlos Zarate
    Salvador Sanchez
    Rafael Marquez
    Ken Buchanan
    Ruben Olivares
    Fighting Harada
    Luis Rodriguez
    Marvin Hagler
    Danny Lopez
    Kostya Tszyu
    Joe Frazier
    Jimmy Wilde

    Hard to narrow down to 15 got many other names that could just as easily be in here.
     
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