Your personal top 10 favourite fighters

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  1. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Probably been done to death, but i am just curious to know who the posters on here consider their favourite fighters. Not a p4p list, just your favourites, the guys you have cheered for the most, followed their careers, looked back on, etc..

    1. Nigel Benn
    2. Thomas Hearns
    3. Erik Morales
    4. Joe Frazier
    5. Marvin Hagler
    6. Manny Pacquiao
    7. Rocky Marciano
    8. Acelino Freitas
    9. Oscar De La Hoya
    10. Miguel Cotto
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Very very hard and I don't have a static list, it's always changing. But right now -

    01 - Charley Burley
    02 - Joe Louis
    03 - Orlando Canizales
    04 - Bernard Hopkins
    05 - Dick Tiger
    06 - Micheal Watson
    07 - Roman Gonzalez
    08 - Joe Frazier
    09 - Carlos Zarate
    10 - Hozumi Hasegawa

    Like for example, up until this week I prefered Olivares to Zarate, Zarate wouldn't even have been in my ten a week ago but I been watching his fights this week. Also, active fighters have an advantage because I want to see what they do next. So I don't really like Hasegawa better than Liston or Gonzalez more than Frazier, but I'm keen toe see what they do next. The only two that are permanent on the list are 1 and 2.

    If you want a strictly classic list, Liston and Olivares would be 9 and 10 respectively.
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I like your own list by the way, but I don't know how someone can like Cotto more than the other 5000 worthy fighters out there. How can someone like Cotto more than Ike Williams, you know?
     
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    1. Roberto Duran
    2. Sam Langford
    3. Julio Cesar Chavez
    4. Joe Louis
    5. Jack Dempsey
    6. Carlos Monzon
    7. Azumah Nelson
    8. Mike Tyson
    9. Rocky Marciano
    10. Sugar Ray Robinson
     
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  5. lefthook89

    lefthook89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1.mike tyson
    2.tommy hearns
    3.joe louis
    4.lennox lewis
    5.SRR
    6.david tua
    7.joe frazier
    8. muhammad ali
    9.gerald mcclellan
    10.george foreman
     
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  6. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Miguel Cotto to me was one of those guys you see early on in his career and see talent. Then you blab on about him to your friends saying hes gunna do this and that, and they dont believe you...then he steps up class and delivers, then delivers again, then delivers in a war. He has his flaws but he has pulled through in hard fights more often than not, and in my opinion he has the most stacked list of opponents of any relevant active fighter today. I always cheer for him. The Pacquiao fight i was split, but with all my friends being not so big on the sport, not even giving him a prayer against pacman, it made me hope for him to pull it off.

    He doesnt say ****, he just gets in their and works, i really like his character
     
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Yeah, alright, I could see that angle. I remember being very excited about him when he beat Maussa.
     
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  8. tommygun711

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    #1. Evander Holyfield
    #2. Muhammad Ali
    #3. Sonny Liston
    #4. Rocky Marciano
    #5. Marvin Hagler
    #6. Sugar Ray Robinson
    #7. Jack Dempsey
    #8. Sugar Ray Robinson
    #9. Thomas Hearns
    #10. Manny Pacquiao
     
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  9. slipnduck

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    In no real order.

    Manny Paquiao
    Tony sibson
    Martin Castillo
    Oscar Larios - value for money on punches thrown
    Marvin Hagler
    Kostya Tszyu
    Diego Corrales
    M A Barrera
    Erick Morales
    Barry McGuigan
     
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  10. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Like McGrain´s my list always changes, the only constant thing about it is the number one who is the closest thing I have to an idol.

    1. Max Schmeling

    2. Tony Canzoneri
    3. Dick Tiger
    4. Roberto Duran
    5. Floyd Patterson
    6. Azumah Nelson
    7. Emile Griffith
    8. Graziano Rocchigiani
    9. Pernell Whitaker
    0. Julio Cesar Chavez
     
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  11. Jack Dempsey

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    1. Jack Dempsey
    2. Sugar Ray Robinson
    3. Joe Louis
    4. Henry Armstrong
    5. Barney Ross
    6. Al 'Bummy Davis'
    7. Mickey Walker
    8. Rocky Marciano
    9. Benny Leonard
    10. Max Baer
     
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  12. Maxmomer

    Maxmomer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Stanley Ketchel
    Sam Langford
    Harry Greb
    Jack Dempsey
    Roberto Duran
    Joe Louis
    Shane Mosley
    Joe Frazier
    Muhammad Ali
    Mickey Walker
    Charley Burley
    Bernard Hopkins
    Benny Leonard
    Jose Napoles
    Max Schmeling
     
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  13. Abdullah

    Abdullah Boxing Junkie banned

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    I am not going to list a tp ten in order, but these are some of my favorites. The guys I list first are probably ones that I like the most.

    Harry Greb, Sugar Ray Robinson, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roy Jones, Jr., Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko
     
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  14. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    In chronological order:

    George Dixon
    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Barbados Joe Walcott
    Jack Johnson
    Sam Langford
    Jack Dempsey
    Harry Greb
    Mickey Walker
    Joe Louis
    Rocky Marciano
     
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  15. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What are your favourites of the post-1960 fighters? Just beeing curious.
     
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