Name some fighters who actually have a legit clame to being the best of all time?

Cause there is actually film of a lot of his opponants.

Loughran, Tunney etc....you can see their quality of them so its safe to assume it took a quality fighter to beat them.

 

Yikes..Ill leave it that Addie, we can continue this tommorrow when you are thinking a little sharper

 

Boxing fans will never be able to definitively answer the question as to who is the GOAT...because there are too many itangibles and subtle shades of gray involved..boxing is not that simple..though it's great fun in arguing about it.

 

Damned straight, red cobra. No definitive answer but real fans almost always love to talk about it. :good

 

I think its between Robinson, Armstrong and Langford. Greb has a claim to it as well but I dont see hime being as good as the others.

 

Not having Pep in there because he didn't take a title in more than one weight class is something I'm seeing on here and have heard before. Not fair. There's a hell of a lot more to greatness than pounds. p4p doesn't mean how many weights you can fight at. Who says it's necessary to fight at more than one weight to prove your greatness? Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali certainly didn't need to. If you wanted to make it all about weight classes, just call Pacquiao the man and then call it a day. That's not the end all of the discussion though.

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They count the boxing matches on his fight record, but they neglect to factor in the greatness it took to survive the marriages. Also unfair.

 

What the **** are you going on about? patsch

 

Comments like this "Pep was a single-weight champion, that is not the greatest fighter ever by any manner of means IMO. His achievements pale in comparison to those of Henry Armstrong, I can't even envisage a decent argument for having Pep over him, so that rules Willie out in my own rankings."

I think that's pretty clear. I don't think that logic holds. Yep. That's pretty clear, I think.

 

:good

 

How come?

 

C'mon man, you're better than that.

 

It's a genuine question, Pea.

I personally don't know anything about Greb, so I'm curious as to how great the man was.

Still, Chuvalo was no better a fighter than In Jin Chi was. In my estimation.

 

He is 1 of the few that you can make a case for, phenomenal fighter, I still think Robinson has the strongest case of anyone of which there is enough footage tho.

Armstrong shouldnt be seen outside a top 5 tho, no doubt about that.

 

The information is all over the internet.

Here's a good article on him I've posted in the past.

http://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html

 

Secondary sources...it's great, but how about footage?