How in heaven;'s name is Ali in his best rope a dope form going to copoe with this Joe Louis???? Answer= Not in Ali's dreams...Louis at this stage was the most perfect heavyweight ever...Like a " Coil Spring Unwinding "....And he could do this for 15 rounds, maximising his punches with the minimum of effort...The most perfect puncher ever was my boxing hero. the immortal Brown Bomber!!!
I think ring magazine has some sort of hatred towards ezzard charles, in both of thier lists, they have ezzard outside the top 10, which is mad insane. His resume eclipses anyone not named greb or robinson.
good question. Better question is who did Duran beat to be rated that high. Only great he beat was Leonard, and he didn't knock him out and was outclassed in the rematch and rubbermatch.
and Hearns should be closer to Hagler at about 19. Just because Hagler beat him does not necessarily make him rated over Hearns. Hearns beat Cuevas and Benitez and Duran before he even fought Hagler, and fought Ray in a rematch. Then later he beat Virgil Hill and drew with Ray.
Agreed, he should be 5. You really think he is serious? I can´t believe it, no poster is that bad. btw. I think that´s the best historical ring list I´ve seen. It´s still bad but their best ... go figure.
Duran beat buchanon, a legit hall of famer and Ernesto marcel, you know the guy who soundily outboxed argeullo and is a hall of famer himself. De Jesus, palomino, cuevas, moore, barkley(the guy who blasted hearns), hector thompson, mamby, kobayashi and on top of that a win over sugar ray leonard. Yes duran deserves his rankings. You have to realize he's smaller than the fab 4 guys, hes not the same size as them.
He's quite the character. That really confuses me, but nothing surprises me with that man he could've been bullshiting about Charles as the #1 LHW.