The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

Perhaps when in Thailand doing your book you might find out that moon and others wanted nothing to do with khaosai . If you did how much would you change your opinion on khaosai

 

That kinda' thing doesn't influence my opinion on Galaxy one tiny little bit. Fact is, I can't give him the credit for facing any of the best of his era. I can to Watanabe, Roman, Moon and Konadu. They did. Even if I found out they were all scared of him, it'd only make me think he was unlucky. I never rate on 'coulda woulda's, even if it's harsh on the fighter they never got the chance to earn more acclaim (hasn't been to Khaosai's detriment really, his smashing of lesser fighters and maintaining a nearly perfect record has done more for most fans than better fighters with spottier records it seems)

Why any of those guys would be scared to fight him though, I don't know. They're all proven against hard punchers. Against top quality Thai's. Against southpaws.

My book will have none of my opinions on it. And knowing Khaosai's fanbase, he'll likely be the star of the book I imagine, plenty of people who remember him fondly from the 80s I know, in fact he's probably the most recognised Thai fighter of all time, he even has his own waxwork in Madam Tussauds, so as a famous boxer has more tourist appeal.

Samart is most loved out there.

 

Mr Butt with everything I'm saying, and considering I clearly love Thai fighters, ask yourself this; would I really be going out of my way to discredit Khaosai? Or have you been overrating him for years?

 

You should go full troll flea, and just tear Galaxy's record and reputation to shreds.

And Kingpetch's.

Become the most hated man in thai boxing.

 

Good honest post

Yeah the galaxy brothers and sot were the Thai fighters I can remember being on tv the most over here in the 80's

 

It's impossible to overrate Galaxy. Look at the record-Espinal, Orono, Contreras, Pical, Payakaroon, Castro, Kim, Moon, Vasquez. No losses.

 

Maybe I have it's all in the eye of the beholder he's still boxing's answer to the Michael Myers character from the 80's Halloween films . One paced but always seems to catch up with his overmatched victim ,if you like

 

I see what you're saying and I wanted to touch on this but I bitched out. Wladmir should be at least in the next bracket. Holy crap he got stopped at heavyweight! He is still knocking the hell out of most guys he fought. Sanders turned down the rematch and he got revenge against Brewster. His career isn't even over yet either and there doesn't seem a challenge in sight.

I do think Liston and Dempsey are rated too highly when there are too many good titlists with multiple good wins over ATGs at the lower weights and over multiple weights. Especially if we are factoring in the who fought who in toughest of eras, etc. and as much as I was a Dempsey fan as a kid, now this place has opened my eyes

Just because the HW division is the 'glamour division' of boxing doesn't mean we have to go all Nat Fleischer with ranking "popular" HWs on the list for the sake of feeling we need to give them a shout out.

 

Sloppy leftovers for discussion + some names I added:

Sixto Escobar
Brian Mitchell
Felix Trinidad
Cocoa Kid
Jersey Joe Walcott
Sugar Shane Mosley
Esteban DeJesus
Gene Fullmer
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Battling Battalino
Baby Arzimendi
Wladmir Klitschko
Fred Apostoli
Lew Jenkins
Jeff Clark
Ken Buchanan
Jack Delaney
Owen Moran
Victor Galindez
Ismael Laguna
Floyd Patterson
Tippy Larkin
Jack McAuliffe
Georges Carpentier
Yuri Arbachakov
Kostya Tszyu
Sumbu Kalambay
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Joey Giardello

**** me :tired

 

Del Flanagan went 50-0 beating Saddler, Graves and Jack. Later went on to beat Gavilan, Turner, Jones and Dupas at higher weights.

Never got a title shot :huh

 

I'm the only American in this thread aren't I :-( Wake up ****s.

 

****, great call on Buchanan. Honestly it's crazy no one has brought him up already.

 

He was mentioned for top 100 but then people lost him in the hysteria of it all. It's scary how we can forget some guys

 

Proof, us American-blokes are the best.

 

:happy

I'm North American so yeah.