Top 10 pound for pound Boxing Badass Motherf***ers

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  1. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ace Hudkins...A throwback to the fights on the barges...Called an animal by William Muldoon...
    Mysterious Billy Smith...The toughest, roughest fighter of the 1890s...
    Rocky Graziano...flattened his commanding officer in WW2, went AWOL, became a pro fighter, throwing hand grenades in his pro start, but he wasn't a bad thief, as he recalled
    " I only stole things beginning with an A...a car, a watch, a radio, etc. ". Watching the young Rocky's fights was like being witness to a gang brawl...
     
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  3. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Al Davis might deserve a mention for the way he went out. Hudkins was definitely an animal, unstable at that.

    Ad Wolgast and Battling Nelson are both legendary.

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  4. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes A, Al [Bummy ] Davis was a real roughneck...I saw him a few times, a tough snarling street fighter with a dynamite left-hook...:hi:
     
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    Uh Oh.....


    The OP put together a great post. Mucho Kudos.
     
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  6. PetethePrince

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    Top 4, need no explanation IMO-

    Rocky Marciano
    Muhammad Ali
    Evander Holyfield
    George Foreman

    Mickey Ward- could Foreman have stopped this man?

    Arturo Gatti- do I really need to explain?

    Ray Leonard-proved he was tougher than most believed he was, fought legends from 147-168

    James Toney-he's an ******* but I really think he'd fight anybody, never been stopped despite fighting good fighters from MW-HW

    Vitali klitschko- maybe it took the Byrd fight to bring it out, but I doubt this man will ever quit again. Never been down, wanted to keep fighting despite cuts vs. Lewis.

    Stanley Ketchel- he was stopped twice but he avenged the loss to Papke by KO. the other KO loss was to HW Champ Jack Johnson after ketchel floored him. Ketchel was 170 Lbs. that night and outweighed by over 30 Lbs.! Lost a close fight to Sam Langford, knocked out Philadelphia Jack O'Brien among others.
     
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  8. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's a really **** list. Jack Johnson broke hundreds of laws and banged all the White women he wanted at a time where racial tensions where at boiling point. That's a lot more badass than any of the ones you listed
     
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  9. devon

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    Am i the first to mention Antonio Tarver who can forget "got any excuses tonight roy"Then shocking the world with a knockout.
     
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    Basilio. Guy nearly fought the ref when he stopped his fight against Fullmer. Carmen didn't suck up to anyone, either.
     
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    He also said to his trainer that his next fight would be with him if he stopped the one he currently was in (was it against Robinson, with his eye puffed up like a watermelon, perhaps?).
     
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  13. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Basilio was definitely tough as nails. To be honest I never got the point of the stoppage in the Fullmer rematch. Basilio took worse beatings than that, even if he was clearly losing.

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BZp6AA2f8[/ame]


    This fight is the definition of tough:

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    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This excerpt will vanquish 95% of the suggestions on this thread. It's an excerpt from The Gods of War: Boxing Essays (which you all better buy when it comes out, or so help me I'll...)...

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    This will blow everything else in the thread out of the water.

    In 1924, Jack Johnson made a speech to a group of the Ku Klux Klan in Danville Illinois. The topic of the speech was sportsmanship, fair play, and the golden rule.

    End thread.
     
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