Once in a lifetime talents.

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  1. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    There are fighters who are really talented, once in a generation talents, and then there are fighters who are extraordinarily talented, the kind that only comes along once in a lifetime.

    What fighters do you consider once in a lifetime talents?

    Roy Jones Jr.
    Pacquiao
    Mike Tyson
     
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    Pacquiao
    Mayweather

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    Inoue
    Lomachenko
    Usyk
     
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    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Tyson was a freak of nature no heavyweight should be that quick, if he had been a middle he would have been unbeatable, he would have destroyed Jones and he would have destroyed Manny if he had been a welter, he was simply amazing, beating heavyweights far bigger than him was simply out-standing and will never happen again.
     
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    Murderers' Row Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Never say never but he was like you say a freak of nature.
     
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    All of them, in their own special ways.
     
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    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing

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    Tony Tubbs
     
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    Guerra Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Naseem Hamed, crazy style, atg power and best showman.
     
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    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    There are none.
     
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    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Naoya Inoue

    15-0 in title fights (real ones, not secondary belts) w/ 13 KOs across 3 divisions and losing maybe 5-7 combined rounds. This is an incredibly dominant stretch and as one poster pointed out, might be the most dominant in boxing history.
     
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    Nope
     
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    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Inoue's resume is sometimes said to be weak. It isn't weak. It's just that he's so much better than everyone he's fought.

    It's like when RJJ was in his prime, and everyone said he was fighting bums.
     
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    miniq FURY COMETH 2026 Full Member

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    Tyson Fury

    Never been seen before
    Never been done before
    Never will be seen again

    Put yo respects on his name
     
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    Nah
     
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    Agreed. It's a shame that Roman ducked 11-0 Inoue when he turned down the offer saying the money wasn't enough.

    But still...

    Inoue KO'd 4 world class opponents in under 4 combined rounds. And none of them had previously been stopped.
     
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