two greatest fighters in each of 8 divisions

Not sure what you mean? brown consistantly ranks in many peoples top 10's...but not sturdy, what do you mean by that? I don't personally know how frequently he was down, but am not aware of him being stopped in afight either?

 

Brown had awesome durability.

 

Heavyweight - Ali/Holmes
Light Heavy - Charles/Spinks
Middleweight - SRR/Hopkins
Welterweight - SRR/SRL
Lightweight - Duran/Whitaker
Featherweight - Armstrong/Pep
Bantamweight - Jofre/Zarate

 

apologies for the lack of clarity. just meant, despite being 5'11, he wasn't terribly physically strong at the weight. not a bad choice by any means, but i feel he could have been overpowered by physically powerful opposition

not meant as a reflection of chin or toughness in the least.

 

Les Darcy? :bbb

 

Heavyweight - Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis
Light-Heavyweight - Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore
Middleweight - Carlos Monzon and Marvin Hagler
Welterweight - Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard
Lightweight - Roberto Duran and Benny Leonard
Featherweight - Willie Pep and Abe Attell
Bantamweight - Eder Jofre and Terry McGovern
Flyweight - Jimmy Wilde and Pancho Villa

 

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An article by BBC.co.uk writen by Sean Davies, gave Driscoll 7 rds with 2 even ,one to Attell with Attell being in serious trouble in the 4th.
The NY Times gave Driscoll 5 rds, 3 to Attell and 1 even ,and said Attell was staggered in the 4th.
Mention is made of Driscoll outlanding Attell 2 to 1, and dominating with a classic straight left.

 

heavy-ali and lewis
light heavy-charles and foster
middle-hagler and monzon
welter-robinson and leonard
lightweight-duran and williams
feather-saddler and sanchez
bantam-jofre and zarate
flyweigh-lynch and wilde

 

He had little or no problems with Patterson, Ellis or Bob Foster. And saying Cooper was a troublesome opponent... Clay was well in control in both fighs except for those seconds that Cooper managed to land that left hook. That's boxing. The other guy will always have the chance to capitalise on one second of carelessness. Doesn't mean he's necisssarily a difficult opponent. The very next round Clay came out and beat the crap out of him. Didn't seem to have too much trouble with Cooper then.

The Jones fight is another kettle of fish, though. This is probably the one that makes the best argument for Dempsey. This was a young Clay, though. Dempsey struggled with several opponents when he was 20, 21 as well.

 

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HW: Ali, Louis
LHW: Charles, Spinks
MW: Greb, Monzon
WW: Robinson, Leonard
LW: Duran, Leonard
FW: Pep, Armstrong

Know too preciously little about bantam or fly to try my hand there.

 

Heavy- Louis, Ali

Lt. heavy- Charles, Moore

Middle- Greb, Monzon

Welter- Robinson, Walcott

Lightweight- Duran, Gans

Feathers- Pep, Saddler

Bantams- Jofre, Olivares

Flyweights- Wilde, Villa

 

Haven't got a tremendous amount of knowledge (historically) outside of the heavyweights so I don't know how legitimate the shouts will be?? I suppose most of these are swayed heavily by who i am most impressed by on film

HW - Rocky Marciano & Jack Dempsey

LHW - Ezzard Charles & Archie Moore

MW - Harry Greb & Ray Robinson (of the SVDM fight vs Jake)

WW - Ray Robinson & Henry Armstrong (PACMAN is chasing close behind trying to chomp them haha)

LW - Roberto Duran & Ike Williams

FW - Willie Pep & Kid Chocolate

BW - Terry McGorvern & Eder Jofre

FW - Jimmy Wilde & Pancho Villa

PS Cruiserweight best Holyfield and Super Middle Roy Jones Junior (particularly the Paz fight)