Fancy helping me do a top 100?
Too high for me. If I were to rate Gavilan at 15, I'd have to rate Jose Napoles at about #11, and Ike Williams at #14 or #16.
Interesting. They all make my top hundred. Infact, at least a couple of them make the top seventy. I mean, you won't catch me rating Carlos...
Well you can only be as good as your rule set will allow. Fighters back in the early 1900s were still used to small or no gloves and therefore...
Here's a tricky one for you - where, roughly, would you rate these all-time greats: Louis 'Kid' Kaplan Young Corbett III Benny Bass Pedro...
Some people even rate him #1. Can't knock the first man to win three titles - he'd be higher if I thought his average level of opposition was...
Hang on, just remembered Gans is #14, not 11. Because Fitzsimmons has that spot. 11. Bob Fitzsimmons 12. Muhammad Ali 13. Joe Louis 14. Joe...
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... But not necessarily in the top ten.
Ray Leonard. He hit his prime around the Norris fight, but had already beaten Hagler, Hearns & Duran.
Honestly, I find McFarland massively hard to rate. I don't know whether to put him in a top ten or not - I think I should. And on Gans - he's #11.
So how would you explain three, four uppercuts, lifting up the head of an opponent, and then a left hook knocking them out? Or maybe two...
:D The man in my avatar could throw together some surprisingly sharp and unexpected combinations when he felt like it. JG - did you ever meet...
Second place to... Ike Williams?
Montanez is a fighter I've been getting into over the last few months - turns out he was more than just one of Armstrong's best wins. He actually...
