A cool idea

We have a lot of debates about:

Who was the best pound 4 pound fighter of all time?

Who was the greatest heavyweight of all time?

Who was the greatest middleweight of all time?

etc etc.

A couple of years ago in Britain the BBC organised an event to decide who was the greatest British historical figure of all time.

Celebrities and politicians were invited to present a case for the person who they thought deserved the honour in a 30 minute programe slots.

After the programes were shown there was a public poll.

The idea

What if we set up similar debates and selected one poster to present an article arguing the case for each fighter who was an obvious contender for the honour in question?

We would try to select a poster who genuinely believed the case they were presenting and not make it a debating exercise.

In the case of the pound for pound issue you could get a superior article from sombody arguing for Fitzsimmons, Langford, Greb, Pep, Armstrong Robinson, and perhaps sombody like Mayweather.

 

Yes but wouldnt it be good for everyone to see a top poster on this site present a detailed written article for "fighter A" being the best heavyweight of all time..........

 

OK guys here is what we have to do:

When we have decided on a topic we start a thread inviting other posters to volunteer to write articles arguing the case for the fighter of their choice. We select a few of the best offers. Might be an idea to wait until the curent tournaments are out of the way or significantly nerrowed down.

If a four or more good posters offer to write articles then we invite the posters to submit their articles to one of us by a given date then put them up on the site a day or so later and perhaps archive them.

If we put up a thread asking posters to offer articles arguing "fighter X was the greatest lightweight of all time" for example then I am guessing that we would get good offers for Joe Gans, Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong and Roberto Duran at least.

If one of the articles was of exceptional quality it might significantly shift the consensus on this site. I do think that there have been cases in the past where a single poster has significantly improved the standing of a given fighter on this site.

 

Any thoughts about what the first topic should be?