Scariest boxers in history

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by AntonioMartin1, Mar 25, 2025.

  1. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

    Joined:
    Jan 23, 2022
    Messages:
    4,638
    Likes Received:
    3,745
    Lets see.
    Im gonna list a few and will state the reason:
    Julian Jackson -the power
    Wilfredo Gomez- the power
    Salvador Sanchez - the non finishing stamina
    Julio Cesar Chavez- the undefeated record

    Time for you to add some to the list
     
  2. Ike

    Ike Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Feb 20, 2025
    Messages:
    410
    Likes Received:
    643
    F. Mayweather - Defense

    Gene Tunney - Footwork

    O. Usyk - Ring I.Q.

    B. Hopkins - Longevity

    Joe Calzaghe - Workrate

    Roy Jones Jr - Speed

    James Toney - Counterpunching
     
    AntonioMartin1 likes this.
  3. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Sep 12, 2024
    Messages:
    2,378
    Likes Received:
    1,995
    Roberto Duran: pressure
    Jose Napoles: slickness
     
  4. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

    Joined:
    Mar 19, 2012
    Messages:
    13,251
    Likes Received:
    11,580
    Roberto Duran = The Devil himself.

    Dwight Qawi was intimidating at lightheavyweight.

    Gerald McCellan- Knocking out a man was better than sex. He said that. He really did.
     
  5. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

    Joined:
    Jan 8, 2017
    Messages:
    29,248
    Likes Received:
    35,667
    Nigel Benn could be a scary fooker
     
    AntonioMartin1 and Ice8Cold like this.
  6. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold Hype Jobs will be hype jobs until proven so. Full Member

    Joined:
    Jan 1, 2024
    Messages:
    2,489
    Likes Received:
    3,725
    Mike Tyson was seen as invincible at one point, his aura was like no other.

    Not hard to read Spink's mind in his ring walk.

    Sonny Liston and George Foreman too. They all came to really fight.
     
  7. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

    Joined:
    Feb 27, 2024
    Messages:
    4,221
    Likes Received:
    6,377
    Joe Louis was making grown men crumble before fights, even tho he wasn't even trying to intimidate them at all.
     
    ETM, PRW94 and AntonioMartin1 like this.
  8. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

    Joined:
    Feb 27, 2024
    Messages:
    4,221
    Likes Received:
    6,377
    To be fair, Spinks always looked like he's about to shyte himself.
     
    Journeyman92, Ice8Cold and roeknott like this.
  9. gfghfgh

    gfghfgh New Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Sep 2, 2024
    Messages:
    45
    Likes Received:
    88
    Carlos Monzon, the heartless machine who just walked you down inevitably, made all the more terrifying by his out of the ring persona.
     
  10. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

    Joined:
    Jun 9, 2007
    Messages:
    16,180
    Likes Received:
    15,179
    Larry Merchant called Joe Frazier a truth machine. Always liked that.
    Prime Papino Cuevas
    Jack Dempsey
    Carlos Zarate
    James Scott was the boogeyman of the division for a while
    The toughness of Matt Franklin
     
    ETM, AntonioMartin1 and Saintpat like this.
  11. CroBox29

    CroBox29 Boxing Addict Full Member

    Joined:
    Nov 24, 2019
    Messages:
    4,981
    Likes Received:
    5,618
    Jack Johnson beat up his opponents and in the process provoked them because back then they didn't like him because of racism, he was quite scary at that time...
     
    ETM and AntonioMartin1 like this.
  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

    Joined:
    Jun 26, 2009
    Messages:
    23,204
    Likes Received:
    26,265
    Iran Barkley looked like a caveman. Scary to me.

    I like a story Ray Leonard related about Thomas Hearns for their first fight. On the press tour, Hearns would wear baggy t-shirts and kind of slump his shoulders and stoop a bit. He did not come off as big nor as tall as he really was. Gave the impression he was just lanky and maybe weak.

    Then he gets in the ring and they pull off the robe and the Motor City Cobra flexes his cobra-shaped back and he’s ripped to shreds and Leonard said he looked twice as big as he did leading up to the fight.

    That would intimidating. I be Emanuel Steward was playing some mind games to get Tommy to not show his hand until they were in the ring.
     
  13. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

    Joined:
    Mar 3, 2019
    Messages:
    27,126
    Likes Received:
    44,868
    Crawford is pretty damn intimidating. You can see it in his eyes that the only reason he's in a boxing ring is so he doesn't kill somebody. And you know he's there to kill you.
     
    ETM and AntonioMartin1 like this.
  14. Heisenberg

    Heisenberg @paulmillsfitness Full Member

    Joined:
    Apr 30, 2017
    Messages:
    3,421
    Likes Received:
    6,403
    Tommy Hearns and currently Usky both have the ice cold stare of an assassin
     
    AntonioMartin1 likes this.
  15. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

    Joined:
    Oct 12, 2010
    Messages:
    18,249
    Likes Received:
    28,467
    Gerald McClellan looks straight up intimidating and someone you wouldn't want to see inside or outside the ring.
     
    AntonioMartin1 likes this.