Is my all time top 10 good or bad?

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  1. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    What was your criteria when you were Making your list? What factors were you weighing? Quality of opp, dominance, longevity, some people include impact on the sport, head to head projection etc.
     
  2. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Quality over quantity with SRL. Shouldn't be a bad thing.
     
  3. SwarmingSlugger

    SwarmingSlugger Active Member Full Member

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    It's your list so from your own view it can't be wrong same for everyone else. No Duran? I can't see it. Moore shouldn't be topet ten IMO and probably not Charles either. McLarnin I don't think so.
     
  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    I wouldn't have Greb top 50 let alone #1

    Only beat Tunny because he was injured and bleeding like a stuck pig from the early rounds. never won any of the follow up bouts.

    How guys fare in rematches determines how great they were.
     
  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    I would replace McLarnin,great fighter though he was,he was something of a weight bully.
     
  7. bolo specialist

    bolo specialist Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's not a bad thing per se ... until he's compared to a fighter that has both, which is often the case w/ other potential candidates for the top 10.
     
  8. OddR

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    First time I have seen this on this sub.
     
  9. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    How about replacing McLarmin with Jimmy Wilde?
     
  10. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Some good calls there.

    P4P top tens are so so complex, because there have been so many great fighter, across the various weight divisions and eras.

    The most controversial call, will be the omission of Sugar Ray Robinson.
     
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  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Please tell me you don't mean Benny Leonard.
     
  12. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    I like it
     
  13. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    I don’t.
     
  14. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Robinson is listed at 2.
     
  15. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Excuse my confusion, I must have taken it for Save Real Racoons.