List your favorite fighters

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  1. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Everytime I meet a boxing fan I wanna know who their favorite fighters are ...list as many as you like...old school or current
     
  2. Shakermaker

    Shakermaker Active Member Full Member

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    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
     
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  3. Mitch87

    Mitch87 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Current
    Loma
    Usyk
    AJ
    Whyte
    DDD
    GGG
    BJS
    Hunter
    Smith
    Bivol
    Allen
     
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  4. emallini

    emallini Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Naz, Jones, Floyd, Haye, Frampton
     
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  5. moog

    moog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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
     
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  6. ryuken87

    ryuken87 Active Member Full Member

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    At the moment it's Golovkin, Inoue, Taylor and Prograis. Dubois growing on me a bit.
     
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  7. Smudge_

    Smudge_ Teak tough Full Member

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    Naz, Ali, SRL, Nigel Benn, Scott Harrison, Froch, Pacquiao, Josh Taylor, Frampton, Groves, GGG, Usyk, Lomachenko, Inoue
     
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  8. TheRevAshton

    TheRevAshton Member Full Member

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    Mainly English fighters for me;

    Old
    Froch
    Lewis
    Bellew
    Hatton
    Jones Jr

    Current
    Joshua
    Eubank Jr
    Usyk
    Buatsi
    Brook
    Callum Smith
     
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  9. anjawnaymiz

    anjawnaymiz Can we get Ivan Dychko some momentum Full Member

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    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
     
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  10. Accurate

    Accurate Jump back, wanna kiss myself! Full Member

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    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



     
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  11. BoxingABC1

    BoxingABC1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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
     
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  12. Momus

    Momus Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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.
     
  13. Shakermaker

    Shakermaker Active Member Full Member

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    Add Michael Gomez and Haye onto my former ones!
     
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  14. kevinreid001

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    Old

    Gatti
    Juan Manuel marquez
    Morales
    Rjj
    Diego coralles
    Mike Tyson
    Miguel cotto

    Current

    Loma
    Ggg
    Canelo
    Pacman
    Inoue
    Usyk
    Josh taylor
     
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  15. Liverpool82

    Liverpool82 Member Full Member

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    Kevin Mitchell
    Calzaghe
    Tyson
    GGG
    Naz
    Hatton
     
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