Most ferocious fighter ever?

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  1. kmcc505

    kmcc505 Sweet Scientist Full Member

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    Gotta be Jack Dempsey.
     
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  2. Joe E

    Joe E Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Charles pre Baroudi
     
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  3. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I love this anecdote of JohnGarfield's about meeting Graziano (This had to be hilarious to see):

    http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4288437&postcount=3
     
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  4. chancery

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    has to be Jack Dempsey.
     
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  5. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll pick Ketchel...vicious guy.
     
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  6. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    Some people might laugh, but this man had a taste for blood that a lot of people forget because he smiled a lot...then got rich and unmotivated
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  7. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I won't laugh. When the going got hot, de la Hoya was not a nice guy... threw punches with mean intentions and had a nasty streak.
     
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  8. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    there are some weird ass quotes from that era hoya about painting the ring in chavez's blood and laughing.... creepy
     
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  9. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Stanley Ketchel
     
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  10. BUDW

    BUDW Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jack Dempsey
     
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  11. yancey

    yancey Active Member Full Member

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    Frazier was indeed fearless but I can't consider him the most ferocious.

    Does anybody remember him pulling up after hitting Bugner with a hook and then stepping back while Bugner slowly fell? A truly ferocious fighter would have followed up with another devastating shot. Foreman would have freaking decapitated Bugner in that situation.

    He also backed off a cut up and beaten Quarry in their second fight and asked referee Joe Louis to stop it.

    I admired Smoke for those actions.
     
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  12. yancey

    yancey Active Member Full Member

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    Agree.
     
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  13. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    Marrickville Mauler (p4p).
     
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  14. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes jg's account of meeting Rocky Graziano was hilarious. there can never be a Rocky Graziano again. They threw away the mould...The most exciting fighter i ever saw ,pre-Zale....
     
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  15. Unforgiven

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    Dempsey - Tyson - Benn

    John L. Sullivan from the old-timers.

    Frazier was the most ferocious in the second half of a 15 rounder.
     
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