Madison Square Garden's Favourite Ever Fighter?

Beau Jack hands down. Jack lead more cards in the Garden than any other fighter. Thats more than Louis, Armstrong, or even Ike Williams can boost.

 

Beau Jack had 27 fights at MGM, but Emile Griffith 1 more - 28 fights. SRR had 25. Kid Gavilan - 22.

 

duran had alot of big fights at the garden. won the lightweight title agianst bucanaon, dominated palimino and davey moore at the garden

 

I think Beau Jack is a good answer.

Zivic said Jack was the fastest fighter he ever faced. They fought at MSG twice. Jack won the decisions, but they were fairly controversial. Strangely enough, when both were inducted into the Hall of Fame in the same year (1972), Zivic got more votes.

Funny thing, Zivic was also a huge draw at MSG. To this day, his rematch dismantling of Armstrong remains the highest ever attendance at MSG: 23,190. At one time in the 1940s, Zivic drew larger average ten-bout attendance numbers at Madison Square Garden than Sugar Ray Robinson.

Still, I think Jack is the right answer.

 

Graziano was probably the biggest draw, but he was banned from New York for much of his career.

 

how come he was banned ?

 

Failure to report a bribe, I believe.

 

Duran's breakthrough win was at the Garden against Benny Huertas, then months later he was back against Buchanan to win the lightweight title.

 

Robinson got off easy, while Rocky got hit hard. Yep other case that shows that race was a issue lol.

 

What about Joe Louis. He sort of put the Garden on the map, so to speak.:good

 

I see people say Ali was robbed of his 3 years and they blame race.
I can say, that Dempsey, Marciano or any other white champ would have been punish just like Ali did imo.