Top 10 favourite LHWs

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  1. KeedCubano

    KeedCubano Read my posts in a Jamaican accent Full Member

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    Self explanatory. I think that Matthew Saad Muhammad is a must on my list.

    Yours?
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    #10. Paul Berlenbach
    #9. Michael Spinks
    #8. Glen Johnson
    #7. Archie Moore
    #6. John Henry Lewis
    #5. Julio Cesar Gonzalez
    #4. Callum Johnson
    #3. Saad Muhammad
    #2. Marvin Johnson
    #1. Ezzard Charles

    Top two are non-negotiable, I tend to swap the order around a bit between three and five. I love the others, but not quite as much.
     
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  3. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tommy Loughran
    Billy Conn
    Ezzard Charles
    Matthew (Franklin) Saad Muhammad
    Dwight (Braxton) Qawi
    Jose Torres
    John Conteh
    Victor Galindez
    Mike Rossman
    Michael Spinks
     
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  4. TheMikeLake

    TheMikeLake Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Glen Johnson
    Roy Jones Jr.
    Joe Smith Jr.
    Julian Letterlough
    Tomasz Adamek
    Virgil Hill
    Julio Cesar Gonzalez
    Bob Foster
    Archie Moore
    Derrick Harmon

    In no particular order.
     
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  5. AwardedSteak863

    AwardedSteak863 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Spinks
    Qawi
    Tiger
    Charles
    Bivol
    Ederi
    Hopkins
    Tarver
    Moore
    Diaconu

    No particular order.
     
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  6. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Pascal
    Fitzsimmons
    Langford
    Hopkins
    Tarver
    Beterbiev
    Kovalev
    Bivol
    Foster
    Moore
     
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  7. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    - Archie Moore
    - Bob Foster
    - Mike Spinks
    - Billy Conn
    - Harry Greb
    - Sam Langford
    - Matthew Saad Muhammad
    - Dwight Muhammad Qawi
    - Tommy Loughran
    - Dariusz M
     
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  8. TipNom

    TipNom Active Member Full Member

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    Ezzard Charles
    Archie Moore
    Billy Conn
    Willie Pastrano
    Micheal Spinks
    Matthew Saad Muhammad
    Sergey Kovalev
    Bob Foster
    Harold Johnson
    Micheal Moorer
     
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  9. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    What about your namesake?
     
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  10. Eddie Ezzard

    Eddie Ezzard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    A division containing my three favourite fighters

    Ezzard - humble, compassionate and a gentleman
    Floyd Patterson - as above
    Michael Spinks - delightfully quirky. I love the interview with him after the first Holmes fight. He had a cold and his voice goes falsetto and it was a nice antedote to Larry's (very understandable) ill humour. He was so polite to the media. Also love his joint interview with Saad after he had kayoed Pops Johnson. Again so quirky and funky. Love him.

    not far behind...Saad Muhammad - what's not to love?

    Gets a bit trickier for me after that. Apart from the big names I don't really know much about light heavies from the old days so my picks are modern.

    Virgil Hill always seemed a nice guy. So did Prince Charles Williams. I always thought Leeonzer Barber came across really well - nice smiley kind of fella. Marvin Johnson seemed a good guy. That's eight. I'm fibbing if I claimed to really know any more than that and just filing spaces for the sake of it. But my top three are, along with Johnny Owen, my favourite fighters as men. Then it's a bit of a drop to Tito in fifth place and a massive drop to whoever's in sixth.
     
  11. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Would you believe he slipped my mind... I do like him actually, he has an interesting story and probably made the most of his (relatively) limited ability.
     
  12. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Not to dissimilar to The Rock.
     
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  13. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Spinks
    Qawi
    Saad
    Conteh
    Mustafa Muhammad
    Galindez
    Pops
    Ezz
    Moore
    Yaqui
    Outside of the top 4, they are all interchangeable. My obvious late 70s early 80s bias is quite apparent.
     
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  14. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Frickin love that you mentioned John Henry Lewis.
     
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  15. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I love that you mentioned Ezz and Pops. :thumbsup:
     
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