Alot of top 10 post. Lets do a top 20 of your personal favorite fighters....

1. Harry Greb
2. Roberto Duran
3. Mike Tyson
4. Joe Louis
5. Sam Langford
6. Julio Cesar Chavez
7. John L. Sullivan
8. Sugar Ray Robinson
9. Carlos Monzon
10. Rocky Marciano
11. Lennox Lewis
12. Johnny Tapia
13. Marvin Hagler
14. Kostya Tszyu
15. Bob Fitzsimmons
16. Gene Tunney
17. Nigel Benn
18. Azumah Nelson
19. James Toney
20. Corrie Sanders

 

1. Roberto Duran
2. Joe Frazier
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Alexis Arguello
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Julio Cesar Chavez
7. Roy Jones Jr
8. Carlos Monzon
9. Archie Moore
10. Jose Napoles
11. Nicolino Locche
12. Sugar Ray Leonard
13. Manny Pacquiao
14. Mike McCallum
15. Shane Mosley
16. Bernard Hopkins
17. Ezzard Charles
18. Joe Louis
19. Dwight Muhammad Qawi
20. Miguel Cotto

 

1. Arturo Gatti
2. Kostya Tszyu
3. Gene Tunney
4. Mike Tyson
5. Nicolino Locche
6. Willie Pep
7. Pernell Whitaker
8. Harry Greb
9. Sam Langford
10. Charley Burley
11. Mike McCallum
12. Harold Johnson
13. Wilfred Benitez
14. Sugar Ray Leonard
15. Randolph Turpin
16. Bobby Chacon
17. Lennox Lewis
18. Barney Ross
19. Vitali Klitschko
20. Max Schmeling

 

You might be mixing something up here my friend.

 

You thinking of the Maxim fight?

 

Interesting.

Although you are in the new dog camp, there is a good mix of old dog and new dog here.

 

Marciano...
Hagler...
Basilio...
Louis...
Dempsey...
Robinson...
DeMarco...
Armstrong...
Pep...
Hearns...
Conn...
Moore...
Greb...
Jackson...
Tunney...
Foster...
Graziano...
Chavez...
Duran...
Holyfield...

 

Favorite fighters. An honest thread for a change. I like it.

Lately I've been shuffling my fave 5 between

Charley Burley
Tony Canzoneri
Benny Leonard
Ezzard Charles
Sam Langford

Then it goes:

6. Tommy Loughran (I got a soft spot for pure stylists and he's a quintessential one)
7. SRR
8. Éder Jofre
9. Roberto Duran
10. Tommy Gibbons, (Not hipster BS. Stands out as one of the smartest fighters in a division historically packed with intelligence)
11. Mike McCallum (Technician through and through)
12. Kid Gavilan (love his versatility)
13. Joe Louis
14. Archie Moore
15. Jake Lamotta (in a good day I mean)
16. Teddy Yarosz (Don't ask why. There's a kind of a trickiness to his style I really like. Not the fastest MW ever but seemed really difficult to read.)
17. Jack Dempsey (Never seen it coming. Last Dempsey sh1tstorm season incited me to revisit the available footage and while it didn't exactly change my POV in terms of his greatness or his H2H ability it made me realize I like his style more than I thought.)
18. Carlos Monzon (sociopath android)
19. Alexis Argüello
20. Nicolino Locche or Pancho Villa (Yep. Pancho Villa. Another product of Dempsey sh1tstorm 2013. Given the way they were frequently compared I decided to rewatch Villa's available footage and found out I really like him for some reason, and he's not like Dempsey.)

Favorite fighters with no footage or too little to really speak of:

1. Mike Gibbons (I know there's the complete O'Dowd footage but I still haven't seen it cause I'm a brain dead MF. The short clip from the Greb official site is not enough for me.)
2. Harry Greb
3. Holman Williams
4. Johnny Dundee
5. Abe Attell
6. Young Griffo
7. Jeff Smith
8. Kid McCoy
9. Fritzie Zivic (I won't pretend I can see sh1t in the available footage, not the 'clever' stuff anyway.)
10. Kid Lavigne
11. Jack Blackburn
12. Joe Walcott
13. Elbows McFadden
14. Dave Holly
15. Eddy McGoorty (not enough footage)
16. Tiger Jack Fox
17. Cocoa Kid
18. Ike Weir
19. Tiger Flowers
20. Sid Terris

phew.