Today many here are connoisseurs of boxing ...but there was a time in your life when you didnt know anything about boxing...you didnt know what was a jab, an uppercut, a hook...you didnt know what the word peek-a-boo meant, you didnt know the difference between a slugger fighter and a puncher...and many many other things. Well, when you watched for the first time videos of boxers in action who did you judge the best fighter without being boxing connoisseurs?
My first memory from childhood Gatti Ward! Two warriors that made me like boxing! But I listened stories from my grandparents abaout how Foreman moved Frazier like a ping pong ball! I listened their and my father stories about 60s,70s,80s and 90s fighters! But my grandmothers father met Schmelling in Germany after ww2 and listened their fights with Louis on early yugoslav radio!
I was a casual boxing fan until I saw Roy Jones vs James Toney ....wow .....and he came to the ring wearing a white tuxedo....I fell in love with boxing that night
Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson! I wanted to know who was the man Ali had bested in his most famed photo a Google search brought up his name and the gutting of a beloved champion in Patterson.
Much easier to understand, thanks. I'd say GGG, then Joshua and Wilder to a lesser extent. GGG is definitely the #1 though, his fighter profile on my dad's skybox is what got me into the sport, and the Jacobs fight was my first time watching a live fight on TV.
When I was a child I remember there was much talk of Spinks whose name sounded like Sphinx and therefore I thought that with that name he had to be too much for sure...so I watched some of his fights and I realized he was really strong...but then Tyson appeared and he destroyed Spinks and to deal with it I started thinking Tyson was the best ever...of course today I dont think so anymore.
Ali. I used to think he was the only special boxer, and that all the others were a supporting cast that didn't matter.