Your top 5 Favorite Fighters & Why?

I like Philly shell defense / accurate counter punching
(I know there are more fighters with this style but don't know much about boxing before Ali era.)

1. James Toney
2. Floyd Mayweather

3. Big George Foreman

Entertaining watching him demolish people with those wide punches.
(Especially during his comeback when he was fighting bums early on)

4. Joe Frazier
I dont know why, just love watching his fights
(Frazier/Quarry I is one of my favorite fights ever)

5. Tyson (got me into boxing)

#6 = pirog

 

I'm probably the only Joshua Clottey fan on ESB.

 

1) Felix Trinidad- First boxer I ever watched (I'm 22) .. never quit attitude (most of the time).. wasn't cocky.. KTHO of Vargas...

2) Miguel Cotto- Great fighter.. warrior mentality.. reminds me of a trinidad

3) Roy Jones- Great ring entrances lol

4) Tyson- crazy head ripping, stomach punching ear biter that warmed my soul....:thumbsup

and 5) Emmanuel Nwodo.. my Uncle who retired last year... good contender for the last four years in CW.. was knocked out by Darnell Wilson atsch.. he's my avatar and got me into boxing training even though I don't box or anything now

 

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Mike Tyson
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Fighting Harada
5. Joe Frazier

 

1. Roy Jones
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Marvin Hagler
4. Manny Pacquaio
5. Joe Louis/Erik Morales

 

1. Bernard Hopkins - To me he is the most underrated modern American athlete.
This guy does the things that are not supposed to be possible time and time again.
He came out of a prison and was able to completely change his life and focus on boxing. He got better year after year and is one of the best defensive fighters ever to step into the ring. I watched the replay of him vs. Simon Brown but I was at that fight and have been watching boxing for a long time. It was a destruction like nothing I have seen in my life in person. The tito fight nobody gave him a shot. Knocking out De La Hoya with a body **** = Slick. Schooling Pavlik as a big underdog and hardly getting touched. Think about it when is the last time you saw Bernard Hopkins hurt? When your over 40 you are supposed to get hit and knocked out. 20 Middleweight defenses. Knocked out glen johnson, beat tarver, winky. Nobody in boxing can take away a fighters best weapon like he can. You will not catch him. Like Mosley catching Floyd,
Hopkins even at his age is nearly impossible to put down.

2. Manny Pacqiuao - Showed my buddy some clips of him. He said holy **** he is like Bruce Lee but better.

3. James Toney -

4. Anette Hongtonkam - Amazing DK judge. had a sick style could carry bags of cash in her suitcase and pull them through the airport faster than anyone.

5. Aaron Pryor - wow

 

Really???

You know Darnell Wilson posts here on this board, he goes by the name of Ding.

 

I'll give the why later on.

 

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- his ring IQ, ability to adapt, and versatility is unmatched in this era. He reps what American "MTV culture" is all about. Do I care much for it? No, but it's accurate with how a **** load of younger Americans are. I admire his hustling skills. He has what many people consider a boring style, but he makes moar dinero than anyone in boxing. People pay to see brain damage, but he minimizes it as much as he can. Very good businessman who takes as much as he can while giving back as little as possible in that sense. I like his cocky attitude, and his jokes are funny whenever it's the rare ones that aren't corny.

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- I never seen anyone have as much fun in the boxing ring. Watch Whitaker for a guaranteed good time. He has the best southpaw jab of all time. I'm left handed, and the jab is my favorite punch. Lots of swagger.

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- If I was a pro I would adopt a style similar to his. He knows all the ins and outs of dirty fighting, and I honestly wouldn't hesitate to use some shady tactics. Comes into the ring as a professional ready to do his job. A lot of boxers would benefit if they took things as seriously as him.

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- Master of cold blooded knockouts.

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- Why bother explaining?

Honorable mentions-

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- All the sacrifices he made for America can't be overlooked.

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- I liked how he messed with the wrongs of America during his time.

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- That's who drew me into boxing, but the technicians became my favorite over time. Still my favorite boxing personality.

 

Really?? Well I guess I'm just gonna have to have a word or two with him that could end in a KO.... just make sure you tell the cops his name when their looking for the suspect of my death.....

 

You're uncle is a warrior. It was one of those Knockouts where I screamed very loud out of excitement and then 5 seconds later I was screaming at the T.V for the medics to help him immediately.

Ding is real cool, class act.

 

Damn Leon we agree on something. Good ****. Wish there were more ppl on the forum like you. My boy knows his ****.

 

Thanks man, he would really appreciate hearing that. This is the face he'd make lol. Thanks again bro.

 

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