Who are your top 5 favorite fighters ever???

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  1. kirk

    kirk l l l Staff Member

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    Props for the Salido pick. Hes in my top 15. Warrior he is.
     
  2. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Thomas Hearns
    Felix Trinidad
    Dariusz Michalczewski
    Ricky Hatton
    Gennadiy Golovkin aka GGG.
    Manny Pacquiao
    JC Chavez sr
    I threw in a couple extra.
     
  3. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1. Rocky Marciano
    2. Muhammed Ali
    3. Julio C. Chavez Sr.
    4. Sugar Ray Leonard
    5. Manny Pacquiao
     
  4. Cafe

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    I only have a top three favourite and that's Gomez, Mayweather and Ali.

    After that the lines blur and I can't really think of any other fighters I definitely like above the rest.
     
  5. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Why is Pryor above Argüello?
     
  6. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Surely that's a numerical order?
     
  7. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Which Gomez? Bazooka? I salute that.
     
  8. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    None other, from a stylistic point of view he's the perfect fighter for me. Brutal puncher but he does it with the grace of a figure skater.
     
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  9. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    One of the best ever. That man owns 122lbs. I love his style, the epitome of a boxer-puncher; whether it was stalking on the front-foot, or marvelously boxing on the back-foot, he mastered it all. AND had lethal power, shame he couldn't put it all together at FW, though.

    His demolition of Zárate has to be among the best performances ever, certainly below FW.
     
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  10. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    I don't like the way Arguello fights. He doesn't excite me the way that Pryor does. And I honestly think he's a little overrated. I think a lot of tall guys are overrated and it takes more skill to be the smaller guy. That's why I respect Armstrong, Duran, Pacquiao more than the Saddlers, Arguellos, Hearns, or Fosters. Hopkins will never be the equal of Toney in my eyes. Not if he fights for a hundred years. When Hearns beat Duran I was like "Oh, how did you ever do that? You only had a thirteen inch reach advantage." You know that Dwight Qawi got in the ring with Holyfield, Foreman, and Michael Spinks despite only being 5 foot 7? Now, that's boxing. That's balls. When I see 5 foot 10 Arguello fighting 5 foot 5 Chacon I say to myself, "That's a bully."
     
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  11. TFP

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    Hearns, Hamed, Lewis, Eubank, Tyson (either of them).
     
  12. Somali Sanil

    Somali Sanil Wild Buffalo Man banned Full Member

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    :)
     
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  13. Somali Sanil

    Somali Sanil Wild Buffalo Man banned Full Member

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    1) Calzaghe
    2) Joe Frazier
    3) Gennady Golovkin
    4) Wlad
    5) Usyk
    Only the top 3 never change, ever !
     
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  14. kostya by ko

    kostya by ko Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tszyu
    Tyson (Mike)
    Usyk
    Povetkin
    Oliver McCall
     
  15. Oscar B

    Oscar B New Member Full Member

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    Oscar de la Hoya
    Lenox Lewis
    Marco Antonio Barrera
    Eric Morales
    Joni Tapia
    Arturo Gatti
    Felix Trenedad