Your top 10 most exciting fighters of all-time

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  1. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Joe Louis
    Mike Tyson
    Nigel Benn
    Rocky Marciano
    Thomas Hearns
    Young George Foreman
    Matthew Saad Mohammad
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Ruben Olivares
    Arturo Gatti
     
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  2. Vic The Gambler

    Vic The Gambler Active Member Full Member

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    Mike Tyson
    Rocky Marciano
    Jack Dempsey
    George Foreman
    Nigel Benn
    Gerald McClellan
    Joe Louis
    Edwin Valero
    Marvin Hagler
    Tommy Hearns
     
  3. Philly161

    Philly161 "Fundamentals are the crutch of the talentless" banned Full Member

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    Evander Holyfield
    Iran Barkley
    Roberto Duran
    Arturo Gatti
    Manny Pacquiao
    Roy Jones Jr.
    Julio Caesar Chavez
    Mike Tyson
    Erik Morales
    Bert Cooper
     
  4. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Eubank would be among my favorites as well, and like you fits into my honorable mention category. Good to see someone else finds him exciting to watch
     
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  5. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    There are so many different ways to answer this question.

    My preference is to answer it in terms of the fighters I was the most consistently excited by watching - and this means it is exclusively about fighters who I've watched in my lifetime. I agree that Joe Louis and Ray Robinson are exciting, but I can't remember getting up at 3am in the morning to listen to them fight on the radio at all, so they don't count for me - these are the guys who genuinely engendered in me excitement that had me engaging in all sorts of weird behaviour, leaving weddings early, refusing invitations to birthday parties, staying up at friends until 5am, arguing.

    01 - Roman Gonzalez
    02 - Juan Manuel Marquez
    03 - Mike Tyson
    04 - Lennox Lewis
    05 - Michael Watson
    06 - Chris Eubank
    07 - Oleksander Usyk
    08 - Manny Pacquiao
    09 - Israel Vazquez
    10 - Carl Froch
     
  6. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I’ve never to this day experienced the hype that Eubank-Watson II had before it. In the street, the classroom, playground, pub, work place, home, bbq anywhere. EVERYONE wanted to see Watson put him over. And everyone despised Eubank the more they saw him on Tv.
     
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  7. Journeyman92

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    Chris always brought the theatre with him. I believe it was during the Carl Thompson fight he did a war cry and I got chills, his posturing and little eccentric nuances make him a very enjoyable viewing.

    Eubank was also comically tough and watching him bounce back and fight through some otherwise game changer shots was wicked. His character and passion where always on full display when he was on and it was a treat.
     
  8. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Very true. Remember it well.
     
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  9. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Call yourself a boxing fan and you have the temerity to not stay up to 3am in an era you were not born into? Shocking behaviour.

    Joking aside, this was absolutely designed to provoke personal responses. But you definitely have to have stayed up until 5am to have watched someone to really care. I realise now that I should have put Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales on my list purely for that reason.
     
  10. DS Phil Hunter

    DS Phil Hunter Active Member Full Member

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    Roy Jones Jr
    Nigel Benn
    Mike Tyson
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Josh Warrington
    Oscar De La Hoya
    Meldrick Taylor
    Muhammad Ali
    Sonny Liston
    Derek Chisora
    Joe Frazier

    These are the first I thought of some of these are in my favourite boxers list some of them aren't, the ones that are Ali, Frazier, Leonard and De la Hoya
     
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  11. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I do not think timeline should be played into this. I did not get up at 3AM to listen to Jack Dempsey on the radio over 100 years ago. but I do have a blast watching his theater film fights 100 years later.
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  12. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He gave spine chilling screams a few times in his early career, non-TV, Eric Guy caught them on grainy hand held cam. At those times Eubank was fighting for his life with 0.00p/$0. Was just after stopping some opponents in tricky or tough fights on a few hours notice.
     
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  13. Journeyman92

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    You are full of neat facts about Eubank Snr. Reminds me of that poster "Berry" or something who was at some capacity affiliated with Chris.
     
  14. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Speaking of the am hours - I had to get up at sparrow f*rt in my neck of the woods to see Mundine KO’d by Ottke. That was exciting. LOL.

    Manny PAC is a lock answer for this question, imo.

    Not that he should be on anyone’s list necessarily, but since I personally found him extremely exciting and entertaining - I would definitely offer up Kostya Tszyu also.
     
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  15. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I believe the poster child for this thread is Matthew Saad Muhammad