Top 10 pound for pound Boxing Badass Motherf***ers

Stanley Ketchel.

 

mayorga was defintely the biggest badass in boxing since hagler. tyson fell apart like a *****.

 

I also don't think Tyson should even be an honorable mention.

 

@ Number 2. Good ol' Roberto / Mungo

As for B-Hop, he looks like a special needs kid in that mask.

Johnson at number 1 is a wise choice. There was a great show narrated by Lennox Lewis on 5Live on Christmas day about Johnson. Well worth a listen. It's repeated New Years Day and may also be on IPlayer.

 

What about Mayorga or Carlos Monzon? I'm not sure about Hopkins being on the list.

 

Good call with Monzon.

You don't get much more 'bad ass' than killing your wife.

 

Monzon should make the list. Got into fights with photographers and reporters. Beat everyone there was to face, beat down your #7 badass fighter (Briscoe) plus brutally murdered his wife. I don't advocate what he did but he is someone I wouldn't want to rub the wrong way.

 

It must be uber bad ass to quit on your stool

 

This thread is badass!!!...Great idea, Mcgrain.

 

Then your #1 needs reconsideration. Good thread though.

 

If LaMotta really had said "you never got me down, Ray, you never got me down" he would have a really goodd case for a place in top 3.

Battling Nelson should be candidate also. Labelled "The Abysmal Brute" is kind of badasss.

Great list!

 

McGrain's opening post belongs in the ESB Hall of Fame. Excellent work, excellent reasoning, excellent wit... just beautiful.

Meaningless Minutiae:
* Tyson emulated badasses. He himself was not a badass. Unless one is immersed in the gangsta rap culture, it is easy to see the swaggering act that saw him quoting General Zod from Superman II ("How dare they challenge me with their primitive skills"). Remember him telling the interviewer that he could hear Tyrell Biggs squeel like a woman after he beat him? Fast forward to between rounds when Tyson was getting enswell on his eyes in the Lewis fight... and I quote: "OWWWWWWAH!" He was an angry and confused young man who didn't really know who he was.

* Boxing has more badasses in it's long history than any other sport this side of Circus Maximus. A complete list would have thousands plus millions more that we have no idea about. But so what --McGrain's list warrants no criticism. I especially like how he handled #10.

 

i disagree with the flowers pick.

 

I disagree here. Maybe Tyson emulated General Zod, but let's not pretend he was playing with My Little Pony when the cameras were off. His criminal record is genuine (and nothing to be proud of, mind you), just ask Mitch Green. Tyson may have said OWWWWAH when someone was working on his cut during the Lewis fight, but he took his beating like a man until there was nothing left .. Liston may not have said OWAAAAH, but he flat out quit against a much lighter hitter.



I think Monzon has to be up there. He has a flawless badass record, unlike some others that did make it. Still, great list.

 

William Harrison Dempsey was the very definition of badass. Road the rails thousands of miles, which don't mean jumping boxcars but hanging on to the brake rails below the car. One slip or nod into sleep and you are dead. Still, he did this many winters. Was a miner, a beet baler and when necessary a pimp. Fought grown men when he was a scawny teenager. Laid down the worse beating ever witnessed in a championship heavyweight fight. Stormed Okinawa when he was almost 50. Banged half of Hollywood's finest.