Our Favorite Boxers

Always the man in my avatar for me, i admire the **** out of Bernard Hopkins aswell

 

Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, Original Joe Walcott, Floyd Patterson (how can you not be a fan of this man) and Chavez. There are many other but that's my fave five.

 

Nobody here has a bad word to say about these boys in the ring or out of it:

Sam Langford

Tommy Hearns

Alexis Arguello

Peter Jackson

 

i like very single boxer who step into the ring but my top faves are in no particular order

Pep

Locche

Hagler

Arguello

Duran

Patterson

Lynch

Wilde

Ted Lewis

Armstrong

Marquez

Hopkins

Moralez

Barrera

thats enough i could be here all night

 

Some of my favorites that I probably wouldn't put in any top 20 lists are Billy Miske, Shane Mosley, Joe Choynski, Nigel Benn. Top 10 of all time...

Dempsey
Ketchel
Langford
Liston
Mosley
Marquez
Miske
Frazier
Ali
B. Leonard

 

Holyfield
Roy Jones, Jr.
Bernard Hopkins
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Artura Gatti
Pernell Whitaker
Shane Mosley
Ricky Hatton
Nate Campbell
Emanuel Agustus
Israel Vazquez


Classic Fighters I like to watch from before my time:

Joe Louis
Ray Robinson
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Marvin Hagler

I lilke all sorts of fighters, just these are my faves off the of my head. My favorite fighter ever is Evander Holyfield.

 

I like most fighters, and can't really think of any I really dislike. I'll list the fighters I can't ever recall rooting against.

Mike Tyson
Azumah Nelson
George Foreman
Pernell Whitaker
Meldrick Taylor
Ray Leonard
Juan Manuel Marquez
Mike McCallum
Chris Byrd

 

Roberto Duran
Larry Holmes
Pernell Whitaker
Juan Manuel Marquez
Sugar Ray Robinson
Nicolino Locche
Donald Curry
Bernard Hopkins
Marvin Hagler
Willie Pep
Carlos Monzon
Lennox Lewis
Marco Antonio Barrera
Thomas Hearns
James Toney
Wilfred Benitez

 

Hearns
Ali
Salvador Sanchez
Mayweather Jr.
Whitaker
Leonard
Duran
Armstrong

 

Oppps, I forgot Sanchez.

 

Well if you really love boxing...this would be a LONG list!!!! I like to watch any good boxing, and appreciate most of them...having said that there are some whose fights I particularly enjoy as well as a few I Always cheer for...All PHILLY boxers as well:

My all time fav: Willie "The Worm" Monroe

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Bad Bennie
Cyclone Hart
Miricle Matt (Saad Muhammad)
Meldrick Taylor
B-Hop
Smokin Joe
Joltin Jeff Chandler
Stanley "Kitten" Hayward
Tommy Loughran
Frank Fletcher
Bobby "Boogaloo" Watts
Ike Williams

Non-Philly favs:
Tony "The Tiger" Lopez
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
Azumah Nelson
Alexis Arguello
Salvador Sanchez
Jeff Fenech
Rocky Lockridge
Ismael Laguna
Terry Norris
Tommy Hearns
Aaron Pryor
Mike McCallum
Chris Eubank
Michael Watson
Marvin Hagler
Yaqui Lopez
Dwight (Braxton) Qawi
Michael Spinks
Evander Holyfield
Archie Moore
Ezzard Charles

Modern:
Since I recently moved to salisbury MD I enjoy watching:
Fernando Guerrero

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Hatton
Cotto
Mosley

 

Marvin Hagler
Aaron Pryor
Nigel Benn
Salvador Sanchez
Sugar Ray Robinson
Ezzard Charles
James Toney
Larry Holmes
Sugar Ray Leonard
Arturo Gatti
Mike McCallum
Roy Jones Jr.
Thomas Hearns
Pernell Whitaker
George Foreman

 

the list of boxers that I have respected/idolised would take me all day to compile,but from the uk it would be headed by the late great
RANDOLPH ADOLPHUS TURPIN
second and third are KEN BUCHANAN and BENNY LYNCH followed by the likes of CONTEH,McAVOY,TOMMY FARR,TED KID LEWIS,FREDDIE MILLS,NEL TARLETON,NIGEL BENN, LLOYD HONEYGHAN,CHRIS EUBANK etc etc
amongst the american fighters that stand out for me are:
IKE WILLIAMS
LEW JENKINS
SONNY LISTON
EZZARD CHARLES
JOE LOUIS
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
JERSEY JOE WALCOTT
JERRY QUARRY
JAKE LAMOTTA
MARVIN HAGLER