Most intimidating boxer

Julian Jackson and the young Thomas Hearns were quite level mannered outside of the ring but the prospect of facing them in the ring was often enough to intimidate all but the very best that they fought. To know that you would be hit harder than you’ve ever been hit and have a likely chance of been knocked out cold was definitely hugely intimidating to their opponents.

 

Actually he was an underdog from bookies and some pundits opinion before 1 st fight vs Frazier. Some stated 3/7 bets.
Frazier then was looks that 5-0 in very notable title fights, had The Ring and WBA, WBC belts, Foreman was challenger.

After Foreman quickly had stopped Frazier in their 1 st fight, then yeah, after this he was seriously hyped up. He also had put upset cos fight even was not long.

 

This thread should be called most intimidating heavyweight since 1960 bc those are all the options. Iran Barkley pacing around before a fight was some scary ****.

I usually am not one to heap praise on mike Tyson but in terms of visibly intimidating opponents mike (along with groundbreaking promotion) was probably the best of that list. Spinks is the most famous but almost everyone from mitch green to Tokyo Douglas seemed beat before the fight started. After him and foreman honestly wilder intimidated a lot of guys

 

It's Mitch, so his point will be that Joshua is 'ducked' which in turn is an indirect swipe at both Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury. I do admire the dedication to dissing Wilder and Fury that he has, tries to shoehorn it into every single post!

*He forgot to add the disclaimer that he's admitted he gets this info about whether Joshua is "ducked" from Eddie Hearn interviews btw*

 

AJ the most ducked according to what's been reported.

 

Except he's 6'7.5"

 

*according to Eddie Hearn interviews you've watched

 

Warren confirmed they received each of the 3 offers for AJ fights and turned it down. Finkel and Wilder never disputed that MR had made the offer they claimed to made. Ortiz management confirmed they turned down AJ fight, as did Kownackis. Whyte also informed he turned down the rematch.

 

The reason the Joshua fight fell through was because of the arbitration, as you know. It's not because Joshua was 'ducked' by Fury. Eddie Hearn said himself in that interview with Fury, which of course you've watched, that both fighters clearly want the fight.

This isn't about either fighter being 'scared' or 'ducking' - that's just juvenile. It's just the promoters themselves playing silly ego games with each other purposely being awkward and then the arbitration being the decider.

I don't obsess enough about 'ducking' to know about Ortiz, Kownacki or Whyte so i'll take your word for it.

 

I always thought that Thomas Hearns had a very menacing, intimidating staredown. It was like, if you wanna beat me you're going into the depths of hell and back. The staredowns against Benetiz and Duran stand out in particular.

Young Foreman was very intimidating as was young Tyson, opponents were often beaten before they came into the ring.

 

Never said the fighters were scared, I said their the management have no faith in their guy winning fight.

3 rd time - pay the step aside money like MR did with Usyk. If their real intention was to AJ fight of course.

2nd time - Turned down 40% for a bigger fight with AJ to accept 40% with Wilder in a smaller earning fight.

 

Arslenbek Makhmudov would get my vote if the option was available, the man is the personification of intimidation.

Otherwise it's gotta be Big George Foreman with Iron Mike a close second.

 

Hahaha! This is great stuff.