Boxings best in a sound-bite

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    We live in an era where discussion is considered boring and every politician and company has to keep their message short and sweet; so with that in mind how would you sum up boxings best and/or your favourite fighter in five words or less?

    I will start:

    Ray Robinson: Boxings best

    Riddck Bowe: should of, could of, didn't

    Ray Leonard: Great fighter, horrible person

    Roberto Duran: The Greatest living fighter

    Tommy Hearns: Made non heavyweight boxing exciting
     
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  2. My dinner with Conteh

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    Hearns made non-heavyweight boxing exciting? Non-heavyweight boxing's always been exciting. Nearly all divisions have had scores more exciting fights than the heavyweights. Your average heavyweight contest is dull, very dull.
     
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  3. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think I will change that slightly;)

    Hearns made non heavyweight boxing popular...
     
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  4. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    In the United States at least, it was the success of the 1976 US Olympic boxing team that was really responsible for establishing non heavyweight boxing's popularity from the late 1970s to the end of the 15 round era. That really made fans notice the hitherto overlooked action packed competition in the lighter weight classes. (A level of excitement which is missing today.)
     
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  5. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Leonard never did anything for me, Hagler was appreciated, but it was not until Hearns came on and set the boxing world alight, and began his rivalry with the two, that non heavyweight (non British) boxing became mainstream in Britain.
     
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  6. young griffo

    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Evander Holyfield-Warrior's heart
    Roy Jones-Unorthodox brilliance
    Tommy Hearns-Destructive power
    Jeff Fenech-Remorseless aggression
    Kostya Tszyu-Cool,calculating,professional
    Pernell Whitaker-Virtuosity personified
    Mike Tyson-Compelling,train wreck
    Floyd Mayweather-Hopefully gets beaten soon
     
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  7. My dinner with Conteh

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    Leonard did actually.
     
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  8. My dinner with Conteh

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    Are you speaking for yourself or the masses?
     
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  9. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    So not true..........:rofl
     
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  10. My dinner with Conteh

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    Yep. Way off the mark.
     
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  11. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I can only speak for myself and the people I know. I have never hidden the fact I loathed Leonard, and indeed nearly everyone I know, who knows boxing will accept Leonard was a great and brilliant at putting himself across in the media (in the 80s) and from what I have heard, he became a darling of the media even in Britain during the Montreal Olympics.

    But he did nothing (positive) to turn on the hardcore boxing fans that I knew. Everyone accepted his brilliance, but no one was intrested in watching him unless it was against Tommy, Duran or Hagler, and that was because we were desperate to see him lose.

    Hearns/LeonardI and then Hearns/Hagler were the first non British, non Heavyweight fights of the 80s that anyone who knew anything about general sports had an opinion on.
     
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  12. My dinner with Conteh

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    Duran-Leonard was.
     
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  13. TBooze

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    The hardcore had heard of Duran, but not the mainstream in the UK.
     
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  14. buzzsaw

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  15. Jack Dempsey

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    Jake LaMotta - Last of his kind
     
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