im young enough to miss the toilet pot nah but when arguello died i was very upset basically Gatti is the only guy wh has retired that i really missed but im glad he retired as i remember him fighting Gomez and he had nothing
Defo Naz, speaking from a british perspective! That guy was pure entertainment. I also miss the young Trinidad. Ali, Tyson and few others are some of the hardest figures to be replaced in boxing, massive icons!
Barrera also. I'm not going go lie either, I missed money mayweather a wee bit during his short retirement.
World Level Ali (The Greatest) The real Iron Mike Tyson Prime Roy Jones Jr British World class Prince Nassem Hamed
Morales but please god dont come back, seeing the state of him I think it'll just be all talk like with Hamed thankfully! And Lennox.
lennox lewis, steve collins, the morales version of wayne mccullough, morales himself prime roy jones and oscar of all time id love to see duran in the welterweight mix (beat mayweather) right now, have any two great heavys to make that division interesting again
I wouldn't say I've been a boxing fan long enough to really miss anybody but I have become huge fans of Vargas, Morales and Trinidad of those who have fought fairly recently and would have loved to have seen them at their peaks, although apparently the rumour is Vargas is coming out of retirement to face Hector Camacho Jr at light-heavyweight. Hope that's not true. :-(
How the **** can you not likle Henry Cooper in England? Isn't that the equivalent of collaborating with the Nazi's?
Nigel Benn every day of the week and twice on Sundays and Michael Watson. Kostya Tszyu as well obviously
A part of me doesn't really want a special fighter to come around in this era with this sort of climate, i dunno its a bit of a catch-22, on the one hand if someone special like some of those already mentioned pop up now then they'd probabily be fighting in abscurity and be anonymous to the general public with muppets like fat mick as 'promoters', which would be really sad, However on the other hand its only with special fighters coming up that will get us gotta this quagmire, its one of the key ingredients (especially a heavyweight)
I also miss Scott Harrison, after going to a fair few of his fights as a 13 - 15 year old and absolutely loved the buzz at them (even the 59 second demolition of kebebe) and the controversial draw against Victor Polo. I'll never forget the night I sat at ring side (thanks to the suckers sitting next to my amateur coach who left after the amir khan fight) for his fight against Skinny Hussein. We had only paid for 30 pound tickets but managed to get in the seats which must have cost a good bit over a 100 pounds. Brilliant experience being able to watch a world title fight from that close.