If you can bring back one fighter....

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  1. Raging B(_)LL

    Raging B(_)LL KAPOW!!! Full Member

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    If you could bring back one fighter from the past to compete today, who would it be? Let`s take one fighter from each of the original 8 weight classes, and you have the option of adding two weight divisions that are among those that were recently introduced in the last twenty years. I`ll start first:


    Flyweight: Fighting Harada

    Bantamweight: Alfonso Zamora

    Featherweight: Danny Lopez

    Jr.Lightweight: Bobby Chacon

    Lightweight: Ike Williams

    Welterweight: Carmen Basilio

    Jr.Middleweight: Eugene "Cyclone" Hart

    Middleweight: Eduardo Lausse

    Lightheavyweight: Matthew Saad Muhammad

    Heavyweight: Jerry Quarry
     
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  2. Titan1

    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Aaron Pryor.
     
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  3. AREA 53

    AREA 53 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So much is made of Sam Langford and Charlie Burley it would indeed be interesting to see what they've got under the modern microscope
     
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  4. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Great pick in Hart.

    Be interesting seeing him decapitate people today.
     
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  5. Raging B(_)LL

    Raging B(_)LL KAPOW!!! Full Member

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    Titan and Area,

    You can pick one fighter from each of the original 8 weight divisions, and add two other weight classes that were added in the last 20 years. That makes for a total of ten past fighters you can choose altogether, perhaps I didn`t make that clear in my original post? If I didn`t then I hope this has cleared up the matter.
     
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  6. Jack Dempsey

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    These 2

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  7. Manassa

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    Ike Williams for lightweight.
     
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  8. Bad_Intentions

    Bad_Intentions Boxing Addict Full Member

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    the same thig i was going to say. :lol:
    i was watching the legendary nights episode of arguello-pryor in y ipod, and man did that little guy impressed the heck out of me.:happy :good
     
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  9. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll give this a go...interesting topic.
    Heavyweight- Muhammad Ali
    Lightheavyweight- Ezzard Charles
    Middleweight- Dick Tiger (imagine 24 hr weigh-in.. for this man)
    Welterweight- Sugar Ray (nuff said)
    Lightweight- Ike Williams
    Featherweight- Hank Armstrong
    Bantamweight- Rubin Olivares
    Flyweight- sorry...I don't know my flyweights
     
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  10. Manassa

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    A few of us want Ike Williams back, then. I think he'd mash all the lightweights around today or in the last few years. Depends how often he was fighting; perhaps a couple of the slick ones could turn the trick on him*, but fighters like Castillo or Corrales would have gotten torn up.

    *It's hard predicting Williams' fantasy fights against boxers. Mostly they seemed to give him trouble, but on occasions he outboxed them.
     
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  11. Nemesis

    Nemesis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    are they selfish reasons? ;)

    for the good of the sport a Tyson / Dempsey type figure would be better as it would capture the general publics imagination
     
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  12. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Every fighter Raging Bull listed...they all have one thing in common...they 'come to fight'...:good
     
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  13. Raging B(_)LL

    Raging B(_)LL KAPOW!!! Full Member

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    Well, not quite!

    While the fighters I mentioned did not necessarily have crossover appeal to the masses, they were all TV friendly fighters who would have brought in more fans to the sport. All the fighters I mentioned either had KO power, TV friendly styles or both, and they came to "fight" and thus would have definately brought in more casual fans to the sport.

    I mean who in their right minds wouldn`t want to have a Bobby Chacon or Little Red around today? They weren`t crossover starts with your average Tom, Dick and Harry`s that is true, but they sure would have gotten people`s attention and earned the kind of money they deserved while entertaining us fans to no end.
     
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  14. Raging B(_)LL

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    :thumbsup
     
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  15. Raging B(_)LL

    Raging B(_)LL KAPOW!!! Full Member

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    I noticed that most of you are still only naming one fighter, when I clearly specified you can name up to ten fighters of your choosing. So far only Dan has done a comprehensive list, surely the rest of you lot could do the same? C`mon now, this is going to be a farily boring thread unless we have more people putting in a bit of effort.
     
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