Top 10 Best "Brawler" Boxers

Jack Dempsey
Roberto Duran
Sonny Liston
Marvin Hagler
Ricardo Mayorga
Rocky Marciano
George Foreman
Mike Tyson
Carmen Basilio
Larry Holmes
Joe Frazier
Dwight Braxton (Muhammad Qawi)

All of these men were very tough men in the streets.

 

Ten guys I would want on my side in a street fight,weight excluded....
Rocky Graziano
jack Dempsey
Stanley Ketchel
Mickey Walker
HARRY GREB
Joe Frazier
Jake Lamotta

 

Ten tough guys continued=
Ace Hudkins
Original Jack Sharkey
Mysterious Billy Smith
Hell, we can clear out any bar...,bring it on......

 

ten tough guys
I meant Tom Sharkey,not Jack Sharkey, who might not even show up...

 

id love to have shavers and quarry on my side in a brawl (outside of the guys mentioned already).
Quick story slightly off topic. Theres a tv programme called 'Crimewatch' in the UK and they were looking for a very dangerous guy for some crime he commited and they said he should not be approached as he was extremely dangerous and then they showed a picture off him.
A few days later, an ordinary joe saw this guy in the street and tried to apprehend him. Unfortunately for him it was non other than Nigel Benn (who i think was champion at the time) and Benn, not knowing what was happening, defended himself as is his right. The poor guy/mug was hit everywhere except the soles of his feet

 

I would class Liston as more of a boxer-puncher than a brawler, actually.

 

Tony Galento would be my pick.
He was a vicious brawler with a devastating punch. He often turned up for fights with cuts and bruises he'd acquired a night or two before in brawls. He owned his own bar.
Shame he didn't have the discipline to lay off the beer and chow, he could have been one of the greats.

 

Unforgiven, Tony Galento was a real authentic tough guy...In a bar or street fight he would have been a terror for anyone...Interesting sidenote to tough Tony....In the middle 1930s Galento was being trained by the old Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey...One afternoon in Stillmans Gym, Dempsey and Galento got into a bitter arguement...Dempsey mad as hell went into the dressing room, and put on a pair of gloves, and stormed into the ring with Galento...Well, in front of Lew Stillman and spectators old Jack Dempsey flattened Galento with a tremendous left hook, that knocked Tough Tony cold...True story...Dempsey at peak was the greatest rough and tough fighter that ever lived...Hands down...

 

Yeah, I've read about that encounter before. I'm a big fan of Dempsey too. :good

Galento was one of the original trash-talking fighters, the press loved him. His "act" (it wasn't really an act, he was genuine) would have made him a massive star in the TV era - then again, he probably would have been banned from fighting he was so rough and dirty.
Galento was an astute observer of boxing though, he picked Clay to beat Liston.

 

10 guys to have on my side?

P4P

Duran
Wilfredo Gomez
Joe Frazier
Jerry Quarry
JCC
Rocky Graziano
Carmen Basilio
Dwight Braxton
Mike Tyson
Nigel Benn

 

I would want
Duran
Marciano
Quarry
Frazier
Tyson
Liston
Foreman
Dempsey
Earnie Shavers
Holmes
in any order
and a bunch of others

 

Bobby Chacon
Jake Lamotta
Tony Ayala
Marvin Hagler
Frank Fletcher
Joe Fraizer
Carlos Monzon
Ruben Carter
Aaron Pryor
Johnny Tapia
Chris Arreola
Jeff Fenech
Marco A Barrera
Ray Mercer

 

Good Topic!

3 that spring instantly to mind without a shadow of doubt

Mike Tyson
Joe Frazier
Roberto Duran

 

If we're talking street fights...

John L Sullivan
Tom Sharkey
Sam Langford
Stanley Ketchell
Jack Dempsey
Rocky Graziano
Roberto Duran
Nigel Benn
Iran Barkley
Mike Tyson