Bernard Hopkins Carlos Zarate Muhammad Ali Sugar Ray Leoanrd Roberto Duran OR Pernell Whitaker This one is hard , i love watching both but i think Whittaker just nips it for me as i love admiring his defence and interlect. Archie Moore Sugar Ray Robinson
Bernard Hopkins Love his fundamentally sound game, a proper technician who uses the fundamentals brilliantly. I learn something from Hopkins every time I watch him, I am not too found of Jones's one in a million style. Ruben Olivares My favrouite destroyer, an absoloute animal at his best but with very good offensive skills and speed. A true wrecking ball. Zarate is also brilliant I am just more fond of Olivares who I have seen more of. Joe Louis Again a pure offensive force, destroys guys. watching Louis is a holy experiance. Ali can be brilliant to watch but a lot of his fights fall into holding and clinching too much for my liking. Kid Gavilan Easy. Gavilan is such an innovative and exciting Welterweight, everything he does is superb. Dont get me wrong I like watching Leonard too just Gvailan is one of the best to watch. Roberto Duran Even, just edged Duran as he is in better fights. Both guys skilled out of the statrosphere, in different ways though. Archie Moore Not seen much of Foster but he is a destroyer, but much prefer the craft and ability of Archie Moore who is a proper professional pro who knows all the tricks in the book. Sugar Ray Robinson Very close. But Robinson is the innovater, he could do everything.
Here are my top 10 favorite heavyweights to watch 1. Jersey Joe Walcott 2. Joe Louis 3. Mike Tyson 4. Floyd Patterson 5. Ezzard Charles 6. Sonny Liston 7. Rocky Marciano 8. Muhammad Ali 9. Evander Holyfield 10. Larry Holmes
Hopkins when he's at his technical best (Trinidad, Pavlik), not his spoiling best. In the latter case, Roy Jones who was always flashy, if not always giving his maximum effort, partly due to opposition. Olivares, simply a relentless destroyer at his best, especially the Lionel Rose fight. Classic fight against Arguello also while past his prime. Zarate was a great puncher too but more laid back I'd say. Louis. Great puncher, accurate combinations, always stalked his opponents and usually got them out of there. Sometimes he looked a bit plodding and tentative, but he would end his fights with an explosive finish. Ali was obviously in numerous great fights but a lot of the credit should go to his opposition too. When Ali's fights were boring, they was really boring. When he had an opponent who could press him and make him fight to his best ability, the fights were truly great (Ali-Frazier I & III). The man had more heart than just about anybody. I find both about equally entertaining to watch. Flashy combinations, not afraid to trade punches, able to fight smart when needed to. Duran. On average, he made the fight much more so than Whitaker, although I'm a big admirer of Whitaker's skillful displays against the likes of Haugen, Nelson, Chavez. He did have some dull fights too, Duran not as many. Moore. He has such an interesting style and a ton of experience, always fun to watch how his great experience plays into his fights. Not much to separate them here though, both were involved in entertaining fights and were great punchers. Foster is not a boring fighter by any means, I just happen to be a fan of Moore's work. Moore-Durelle I was one of the best fights ever. Monzon did not get the luck of the draw here. Robinson was one of the most exciting fighters to have ever fought, although he didn't always put forth his greatest efforts, nobody does in 200 fights. When he did, he made for brilliant viewing because he never backed down from trading punches yet he would do so with accuracy and power and class. Monzon was always in control of what he did and for the most part his opponents were unable to get to him in a way that would make for dramatic fights, outside of perhaps Briscoe and Valdez.