Everytime I meet a boxing fan I wanna know who their favorite fighters are ...list as many as you like...old school or current
Top 5 former fighters.. Gatti Hatton Calzaghe Tyson Groves Top 5 current.. Crolla Fury Taylor Usyk Inoue. Random lists and all for a variety of reasons
Good post. My favourites are genuinely are the British fighters. Favourite Current Ones Current Tyson Fury Callum Smith Liam Smith Pacman Uysk Old Fighters Scott Harrison Carl Froch Joe Calzaghe Tony Bellew Lennox Lewis
Naz, Ali, SRL, Nigel Benn, Scott Harrison, Froch, Pacquiao, Josh Taylor, Frampton, Groves, GGG, Usyk, Lomachenko, Inoue
Mainly English fighters for me; Old Froch Lewis Bellew Hatton Jones Jr Current Joshua Eubank Jr Usyk Buatsi Brook Callum Smith
I really like watching fighters who although don’t have a lot of skill come to fight, constant pressure, big punch output but can also take a punch Benn Calzaghe Froch Kovalev Ggg Really enjoying watching joe Joyce at the moment, if he could just speed his punches up a bit
Old Sugar Shane Mosley Julio César Chávez Érik Morales Roy Jones Jnr Mike Tyson Current Vasyl Lomachenko Gennady Golovkin Mikey Garcia Canelo Alvarez Naoya Inoue
Old: Pernell Whitaker & Willie Pep Current: Loma & Fury. i'm not really a big "fan" of anyone else. Would say Saunders but he's a drug cheat so i look at him differently now
I don't really get emotionally attached to fighters. I may lean towards a fighter in one fight, and then against them in another. Sometimes even in the same series (eg Benn-Eubank, Froch-Groves, Barrera-Morales). My favourite fighters tend to be the ones with the most ability; eg Loma and Inoue at the moment. Roy Jones' win over Toney coincided with me really getting into boxing, and I used to love boring everyone at school shitless with how good this guy they had never heard of was, and how he'd beat Benn and Eubank on the same night etc. Given the choice, I'd rather see a great fighter prove their greatness rather than a big upset. It would annoy me if either Loma or Inoue lost to someone considered below their level, just like it did when Roy lost to Tarver and Johnson. There are some fighters that I used to root for at one time like Mosley and Hamed, who turned me off for the Balco fiasco and being a twat in general (respectively). Historically, Greb is probably my favourite fighter, but there's only so much attachment you can have to a fighter you've never actually seen fight. Barney Ross is a personal favourite more so for his story out of the ring than what he did in it.
Old Gatti Juan Manuel marquez Morales Rjj Diego coralles Mike Tyson Miguel cotto Current Loma Ggg Canelo Pacman Inoue Usyk Josh taylor