Greatest European fighter's of all time?

-Nino Benvenuti
-Jimmy McLarnin
-Jimmy Wilde
-Oleksandr Usyk

My Mount Rushmore .. What would be yours?

 

I'll help u .. Benvenuti was an Olympic gold medalist (val barker trophy winner also) & both an undisputed WW & MW champion. Had an ATG trilogy with Emile Griffith.

McLarnin? 2x world champion, had wins over HOF'ers - Fidel LaBarba, Pancho Villa, Bud Taylor, Louis 'Kid' Kaplan, Sammy Mandell, Billy Petrolle, Benny Leonard, Young Corbett III, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri and Lou Ambers. That's one of the greatest resumes in boxing history..

Surely you know who Jimmy Wilde is? Probably the greatest Flyweight ever.

Calzage was a fantastic fighter but not on this level IMO.

 

Good list.. Marcel Thil?

 

The was a typo .. & Benvenuti was WBA champion at both weights too, not just WBC champion .. Yes I'm aware of the recorded weights of many of his fights also.. 7/8lb difference for Canzoneri, 6lbs for Villa etc... but he did come all way up from flyweight himself.. albeit he was very young.. but still.. he was a world class flyweight or bantamweight as early as 1925.. Consider that he had wins over La Barba , Taylor and Pancho Villa before he was even eighteen years old.. That is insane.. regardless of the extra few pounds he had .. if u want to label him as a weight bully that's your prerogative but for me his achievements & resume are second to none.. I'd also add he wasn't always the bigger man, young Corbett III was a WW who went on to fight at MW.. that first round KO for McLarnin is one of the greatest wins in the history of boxing .. considering Corbett was WW champion & would go on to beat MW great Mickey Walker, Gus lesnevich a future LHW champion, LHW great Billy Conn & the #1 rated MW Fred Apostoli.

 

Astounding really.. I'm not as cluded up on Corbett as the likes of McLarnin but the more i research Corbett the more i realise what a fantastic fighter he was in his own right.. when he beat Apostoli, Apostoli had just beaten Marcel Thil.. & Conn & Lesnevich would go on to fight a who's who... corbett also beat the #2 rated Welterweight Bep Van Klaveren twice after McLarnin.. BVK was an Olympic gold medalist btw.. Not bad eh