What are your top 10 best "brawler" boxers? You know the guys you know would be animals in street fights, the guys that were feared in the ring and out, who are the best brawler/slugger boxrs in your opinion?
Jack Dempsey Roberto Duran Sonny Liston Marvin Hagler Ricardo Mayorga Rocky Marciano George Foreman Mike Tyson Carmen Basilio Larry Holmes Joe Frazier Dwight Braxton (Muhammad Qawi) All of these men were very tough men in the streets.
Ten guys I would want on my side in a street fight,weight excluded.... Rocky Graziano jack Dempsey Stanley Ketchel Mickey Walker HARRY GREB Joe Frazier Jake Lamotta
Ten tough guys continued= Ace Hudkins Original Jack Sharkey Mysterious Billy Smith Hell, we can clear out any bar...,bring it on......
id love to have shavers and quarry on my side in a brawl (outside of the guys mentioned already). Quick story slightly off topic. Theres a tv programme called 'Crimewatch' in the UK and they were looking for a very dangerous guy for some crime he commited and they said he should not be approached as he was extremely dangerous and then they showed a picture off him. A few days later, an ordinary joe saw this guy in the street and tried to apprehend him. Unfortunately for him it was non other than Nigel Benn (who i think was champion at the time) and Benn, not knowing what was happening, defended himself as is his right. The poor guy/mug was hit everywhere except the soles of his feet
Tony Galento would be my pick. He was a vicious brawler with a devastating punch. He often turned up for fights with cuts and bruises he'd acquired a night or two before in brawls. He owned his own bar. Shame he didn't have the discipline to lay off the beer and chow, he could have been one of the greats.
Unforgiven, Tony Galento was a real authentic tough guy...In a bar or street fight he would have been a terror for anyone...Interesting sidenote to tough Tony....In the middle 1930s Galento was being trained by the old Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey...One afternoon in Stillmans Gym, Dempsey and Galento got into a bitter arguement...Dempsey mad as hell went into the dressing room, and put on a pair of gloves, and stormed into the ring with Galento...Well, in front of Lew Stillman and spectators old Jack Dempsey flattened Galento with a tremendous left hook, that knocked Tough Tony cold...True story...Dempsey at peak was the greatest rough and tough fighter that ever lived...Hands down...
Yeah, I've read about that encounter before. I'm a big fan of Dempsey too. :good Galento was one of the original trash-talking fighters, the press loved him. His "act" (it wasn't really an act, he was genuine) would have made him a massive star in the TV era - then again, he probably would have been banned from fighting he was so rough and dirty. Galento was an astute observer of boxing though, he picked Clay to beat Liston.
10 guys to have on my side? P4P Duran Wilfredo Gomez Joe Frazier Jerry Quarry JCC Rocky Graziano Carmen Basilio Dwight Braxton Mike Tyson Nigel Benn
I would want Duran Marciano Quarry Frazier Tyson Liston Foreman Dempsey Earnie Shavers Holmes in any order and a bunch of others
Bobby Chacon Jake Lamotta Tony Ayala Marvin Hagler Frank Fletcher Joe Fraizer Carlos Monzon Ruben Carter Aaron Pryor Johnny Tapia Chris Arreola Jeff Fenech Marco A Barrera Ray Mercer
Good Topic! 3 that spring instantly to mind without a shadow of doubt Mike Tyson Joe Frazier Roberto Duran
If we're talking street fights... John L Sullivan Tom Sharkey Sam Langford Stanley Ketchell Jack Dempsey Rocky Graziano Roberto Duran Nigel Benn Iran Barkley Mike Tyson