CLASSIC POSTERS FAVOURITE FIGHTER ROLE CALL (please read the opening post)

Retired:
Super Southpaw Corrie Sanders

No Footage:
Tom McMustache

Active:
Rigondeaux

 

Retired: Salvador Sanchez (does that count, technically?). If not, Bobby Chacon.

Limited or no footage: Barney Ross

Modern: Don't watch modern boxing. Wouldn't know.

 

Retired(in no particular order):
Muhammad Ali
Tommy Hearns
Sandy Saddler
Sonny Liston
George Foreman
Wilfredo Gomez
Joe Frazier
Joe Louis
Roberto Duran
Wilfred Benitez

Don't think I'll do top ten lists for the other categories, but for limited/no footage, my favourite's are Ketchel and Burley, and for modern, it's Marquez, Wlad, Hopkins, and Froch.

 

Retired:

Joe Louis - the BEST
Camacho, beautiful to watch, I always like the stylish boxers,
Hearns - boxer/puncher, vulnerable, exciting
Tyson - No Explanation needed, 'might' be the best HW ever.
Haugen - great example of literally hundreds & hundreds of top excellent & very good Pro's.
Carbajal - like camcho, a very good boxing technician and pleasure to watch.


Limited or no footage:

Canzoneri,
Lloyd Marshall (the first RJJ),
Jock McAvoy,
Ernie Roderick - beautiful boxer,
Scotlands Jim Brady always intrigued me,
Bert Gilroy, might well be Boxing's Most Cheated fighter,
the French gypsy Theo Medina, looked great,
Robert Villemain, whom I call "the Proof Fighter..."
Len Harvey, humble gentleman - greatest example of what a TOP Athlete SHOULD be like, 'Probably' Britain's Greatest Ever boxer and should've got a world title.

Modern - Don't follow boxing in great depth .

but like Cotto, Froch, AA and GGG is worth watching the outcome.

 

No its too boring,I prefer to read you and Klomps.:good

 

RETIRED

01 - Roberto Duran
02 - Marco Antonio Barrera
03 - Henry Hank
04 - Bobby Chacon
05 - Arturo Gatti
06 - Sung Kill Moon
07 - Carmen Basilio
08 - Danny Lopez
09 - Stevie Johnston
10 - Gaspar Ortega


NO OR LIMITED FOOTAGE

01 - Terry McGovern
02 - Stanley Ketchel
03 - Harry Greb
04 - Charley Burley
05 - Raul Macias
06 - Beau Jack
07 - Benny Leonard
08 - Jimmy Wilde
09 - Manuel Ortiz
10 - Kid Chocolate



ACTIVE

01 - Manny Pacquiao
02 - El Nica
03 - Rigondeaux
04 - Yuriorkis Gamboa
05 - Gennady Golovkin
06 - Keith Thurman
07 - Terence Crawford
08 - Giovani Segura
09 - Omar Narvaez
10 - Naoya Inoue

 

All time favorite

RETIRED.

1- Hagler
2-Ray Mancini.
3-Holyfield..

Limited footage- Don't really have a favorite guy there:huh.

ACTIVE

Andre Ward..

I always root for the American Guy's no matter what, and Mexican Americans also, especially when they KTFO, the Eastern euros:tired

 

Not necessarily in order:



RETIRED

Ali
Duran
Hagler
Johnson
Liston
Louis
Foreman
Marciano
Arguello
McGuigan



ACTIVE

Pacquaio
Golovkin
Crawford
Hopkins
Marquez
Frampton
Klitschko
Jones
Alvarez
Provodnikov

 

Im not a classic poster but I post in the classic

Retired
Tyson
Holmes
SRL
SRR
Marciano
Duran
Bowe
Michael Spinks
Louis
Barrera

Active
Andre Ward
Pacman
Mayweather
Jorge Linares
Andrande
Danny Garcia
GGG
Tyson Fury
Tim Bradley
Carl Froch

 

I'll be honest, I find it a wee bit silly to have a 'favorite' of whom there is no footage. (limited is a different story, unless we're talking like only footage of shadowboxing or skipping rope or sparring a kangaroo - even 1 near complete filmed bout, if at or near championship level, can probably be enough to determine liking someone, although dubbing them a fave on so little still does feel like a stretch...)

I suppose they can be akin to a favorite literary character or something, but without seeing them how can you know you'd enjoy watching them? (no matter how vivid contemporary descriptions of their style might be)

What if footage of said guy was unearthed and upon watching it, you're like "Egad, this is ****"? :yep

 

Probably just signed my own warrant to be chased outta Dodge by a lynching posse with that opinion.

 

The forum now expects to see the first case of self-banning since Manny stopped drinking.