Make a list on your top 10 favorite fighters.

1.T Wilfredo Gomez
1.T Wilfred Benitez
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Roberto Duran
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
6. Arturo Gatti
7. Sugar Ray Leonard
8. Felix Trinidad
9. Salvador Sanchez
10. Marvin Hagler.
(11. Matthew Saad Muhammad and 12. Bobby Chacon, and 13. Ruben Olivares and 14. Danny Lopez)

Every world champion in history is automatically one of my favorites but those are among my favorite's favorites.

 

1 Joe Frazier
2 James Toney
3 Jeff Fenech
4 Arturo Gatti
5 Roy Jones Jr
6 George Foreman
7 Roberto Duran
8 ODLH
9 Marvin Hagler
10 Thomas Hearns

But ask me on a different day and 2-10 could be different.

 

Hi Guys, so yea we all have lots of favs, here are some of mine, mainly fighters I have read about, more intriguing I think.
George KO Chaney
Joe Rivers
Kid Norfolk
Ace Hudkins ( a fierce competitor )
Chuck Wiggins
Soldier Bartfield
Solly Krieger
Holman Williams
stay safe fellow posters, chat soon.

 

where I lived in the Midwest, a fledgling tv station subscribed to weekly shows from the Forum and the Olympic, so I gained an appreciation and became a huge fan of west coast boxing. Halimi would appear on Forum shows. Many times on the undercard of Ruben Olivares bouts, as they were stablemates. And many times Halimi would get airtime. A few years back I asked Ruben if he remembered Halimi. He said, “Oh yeah. Very fast and very pretty.”

 

Do you have some footages of halimi?

 

Thanks mate. That's what classic forums were made for, great story.

 

Man, I wish!. Every so often I’ll see footage show up on another fight from the same card and figure its out there somewhere but nothing has appeared. To tell you what a fan of his I was. Many years ago his fight with Superfly Sandoval was going to be televised. Now, he was way shopworn by this time, and I refused to watch it. Nothing worse than seeing one of your favorites - who is fighting on memory - being beaten up by the next generation of youthful contenders

 

Too bad,how does halimi fight like?

 

It’s been a while, but I recall it as Olivares-ish. Not as heavy a dig but the speed was the sort that rakes you up and down and he was always in your face. If that Salavarria fight was ever uploaded, I would be one happy camper.

 

Modern fighters.. I'd go .. Loma (already listed) Usyk, Calzaghe, Froch, Sergio Martinez, GGG, RJJ, Kostya Tszyu, Pac & Arthur Abraham ..

 

My favorite lists
1) Stanley Ketchel
2) Jack Dempsey
3) Charley Burley
4) Julian Letterlough
5) Bernard Hopkins
6) Vassiliy Jirov
7) Joe Mesi
8) Marvin Hagler
9) Joe Calzaghe
10) Lennox Lewis

My favorite era was the lightheavy era of Jones, Tarver, Hopkins & glenn Johnson mixed in with some Jirov & James Toney. Boxing at it's best.

 

1. Roberto Duran
2. Marvelous Marvin Hagler
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Joe Frazier
5. Salvador Sanchez
6. Michael Spinks
7. Larry Holmes
8. Dwight Muhammad Qawi
9. Steve Collins
10. Most of the lightheavy division from 76 to 85 including underrated John Conteh. Sorry Lads I cheated.

 

All great lists. Kudos to all of you.

 

It's alright tho,if I had to cheat I might insert all of Freddie Brown coached fighters into my last 10.

 

These picks are not necessarily the 10 ATGs, they are my personal favorites, listed alphabetically.

Muhammad Ali
Carmen Basilio
Roberto Duran
George Foreman
Bob Foster
Archie Moore
Floyd Patterson
Willie Pep
Sugar Ray Robinson
Lionel Rose