Top 50 All Time Boxing Fan Favorites - SURVEY RESULTS FINISHED!

Just in time for a pumpkin spice release!

 

1. Mike Tyson
2. Ray Leonard
3. Marvin Hagler
4. Larry Holmes
5. Evander Holyfield
6. Terry Norris
7. Muhammed Ali
8. Ray Robinson
9. Thomas Hearns
10. Julio Cesar Chavez
11. Oscar DeLaHoya
12. Shane Mosley
13. Marco Antonio Barrera
14. Aaron Pryor
15. Bernard Hopkins
16. Roberto Duran
17. Henry Armstrong
18. Joe Louis
19. Jose Napoles
20. Jack Dempsey
21. Mike McCallum
22. Roy Jones Jr.
23. Kostya Tszyu
24. Zab Judah
25. Felix Trinidad
26. Joe Frazier
27. George Foreman
28. Ben Tackie
29. Pernell Whittaker
30. Erik Morales
31. Manny Pacquiao
32. Jack Johnson
33. Donovan Ruddock
34. James Toney
35. Archie Moore

 

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Jose Napoles
3. Joe Louis
4. Pernell Whittaker
5. Henry Armstrong
6. Vasily Lomachenko
7. Roberto Duran
8. Thomas Hearns
9. Carlos Monzon
10. Jake La Motta
11. Joe Frazier
12. James Toney
13. Muhammad Ali
14. Alexis Arguello
15. Wilfredo Gomez
16. Luis Rodriguez
17. Kid Gavilan
18. Roy Jones Jr.
19. Marvin Hagler
20. Roman González
21. Sugar Ray Leonard
22. Terrence Crawford
23. Michael Spinks
24. Dwight Qawi
25. Errol Spence Jr.
26. Mike Tyson
27. Barney Ross
28. Emile Griffith
29. Gerald McClellan
30. Ezzard Charles
31. "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather Jr
32. Jack Dempsey
33. Riddick Bowe
34. Arturo Gatti
35. Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

 

1) Carl Froch
2) Roberto Duran
3) Marvelous Marvin Hagler
4) Joe Frazier
5) Vasily Lomachenko
6) Alexis Arguello
7) Willie Pep
8) Julio Cesar Chavez
9) Rocky Marciano
10) Genaddy Golovkin
11) Manny Pacquiao
12) Pernell Whitaker
13) Roman Gonzalez
14) Naoya Inoue
15) Jack Dempsey
16) Benny Leonard
17) Mike Tyson
18) George Foreman
19) Henry Armstrong
20) Sonny Liston
21) Joe Louis
22) Lucas Matthysse
23) Miguel Cotto
24) Nigel Benn
25) Arturo Gatti
26) Emmanuel Augustus
27) Carmen Basilio
28) Bennie Briscoe
29) Tyson Fury
30) Jose Luis Castillo
31) Marcel Cerdan
32) Jake Lamotta
33) Sugar Ray Robinson
34) Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
35) Joe Calzaghe

 

Replace Whitaker / RJJ with Art Hafey / Lew Tendler and very close to a list I would have made up. keep well.

 

1. Roberto Duran
2. Mike McCallum
3. James Toney
4. Naoya Inoue
5. Kazuto Ioka
6. Floyd Mayweather
7. Andre Ward
8. Gennady Golovkin
9. Lennox Lewis
10.Josh Taylor
11. Tyson Fury
12. Juan Manuel Marquez
13. Sergey Kovalev
14. Artur Beterbiev
15. John Conteh
16. Manny Pacquiao
17. Vitali Klitschko
18. Oleksandr Usyk
19. Mikkel Kessler
20.Vasyl Lomachenko
21. Bernard Hopkins
22. Marco Antonio Barrera
23. Wisaksil Wangkek
24. Terence Crawford
25. Joe Calzaghe
26. Nonito Donaire
27. Sergio Martinez
28.Ken Buchanan
29. Tommy Hearns
30. Sugar Ray Leonard
31. Lucian Bute
32. Carl Froch
33. Roman Gonzalez
34. Evander Holyfield
35. Riddick Bowe

 

Shifty Dando

 

#35: Who doesn't love a tough mutha****er who goes around fighting everyone, losing to everyone but beating everyone and is essentially a fighter with about 30 Cinderella Man moments.

#34: Douglas is charismatic, charming, witty and a very entertaining fighter with a complex story. The Tyson win is a great story, and fight, and really made me like him. When I dug deeper into the 80s HWs and Douglas' fights before Tyson, I really did come to enjoy his style, fights and personality. Plus, how awesome was he in Tokyo?

#33: The Clutch.... another teak tough badass who went around fighting nothing but the best. He has the highest level of competition ever IMO, and reading about how he essentially willed himself to win vs two of the most freakishly brilliant fighters around that weight is incredible. Takes a very special man to beat Ike Williams and Willie Pep.

#29: Who doesn't love Laguna?

#4: Michael Watson is a fighter I hold very dear. He's the fighter's fighter. He was tough as nails, never feared a challenge, had a beast set of fundamentals and applied so much thought to his craft that he surpassed Benn and Eubank in many ways. He was physically quite a beast, but rather than go the route Benn did and become a monster, he decided to find tune what he had and became a different type of beast. What really makes me love him though, is that he never, ever quit. He stood up to a hellacious beatdown vs McCallum and never said die, then after the tragedy in the Eubank rematch, he forced himself back into shape over a long, and drawn out process before testing himself, and running a marathon. He also has am extremely captivating story before he started boxing too, which I encourage you and anyone to check out.

 

1. Thomas Hearns
2. Roman Gonzales
3. Ken Norton
4. Bob Satterfield
5. Evander Holyfield
6. Bert Cooper
7. Merqui Sosa
8. Jose Medel
9. Felix Trinidad
10. Bennie Briscoe
11. Azumah Nelson
12. Alexis Arguello
13. Gene Fullmer
14. Rocky Lockridge
15. Bob Foster
16. Edwin Rosario
17. "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather Jr.
18. Guillermo Rigondeaux
19. Terry Norris
20. Junior Jones
21. Henry Hank
22. Marlon Starling
23. Jersey Joe Walcott
24. Floyd Patterson
25. Kid Gavilan
26. James Toney
29. Juan Manuel Marquez
30. Cleveland Williams
31. Lucas Matthyse
32. Razor Ruddock
33. Tony Galento
34. Keith Thurman
33. Corrie Sanders
34. Tim Witherspoon
35. Jose Legra

 

Felix Trinidad and Alexis Arguello is alot mention in this thread

 

1. Joe Louis
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Gerald McClellan
4. Manny Pacquiao
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Larry Holmes
7. Julio Cesar Chavez
8. Lennox Lewis
9. Marvin Hagler
10. Sonny Liston
11. Roberto Duran
12. Mike McCallum
13. Floyd Mayweather Jr
14. Evander Holyfield
15. Carl Froch
16. Gennady Golovkin
17. Vitali Klitschkho
18. Joe Fraizer
19. Julian Jackson
20. Amir Khan
21. Riddick Bowe
22. James Toney
23. George Foreman
24. Marco Barrera
25. Nigel Benn
26. Dillian Whyte
27. Diego Corrales
28. Tyson Fury
29. Oleksander Usyk
30. Danny Jacobs
31. Chris Eubank Jr
32. Scott Quigg
33. Kell Brook
34. Dereck Chisora
35. Paul Williams

 

1. Juan Manuel Marquez
2. Evander Holyfield
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Pernell Whitaker
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
6. Larry Holmes
7. Oscar De La Hoya
8. Daniel Zaragoza
9. Mark Johnson
10. Orlando Canizales
11. Mike McCallum
12. Marvin Johnson
13. Marco Antonio Barrera
14. Erik Morales
15. Rafael Marquez
16. Alexis Arguello
17. Azumah Nelson
18. Brian Viloria
19. Terry Norris
20. Andre Ward
21. Nigel Benn
22. Chris Eubank
23. Carl Thompson
24. Julien Lorcy
25. Michael Spinks
26. Abner Mares
27. Lupe Pintor
28. Chris Byrd
29. Akira Yaegashi
30. Stevie Johnston
31. Bobby Chacon
32. Veeraphol Sahaprom
33. Hozumi Hasegawa
34. Kevin Kelley
35. Buddy McGirt

Beside number 1 no particular order.

 

I'll be revising this list before the deadline, but here's my first crack:

1) Dwight Muhammad Qawi
2) Pernell Whitaker
3) Guillermo Rigondeaux
4) Vasyl Lomachenko
5) Orlando Canizales
6) Floyd Mayweather Jr.
7) James Toney
8) Hector Camacho
9) Roy Jones Jr.
10) Alberto Davila
11) Andre Ward
12) Michael Nunn
13) Canelo Alvarez
14) Marvin Hagler
15) Sugar Ray Leonard
16) Willie Pep
17) Evander Holyfield
18) Edwin Rosario
19) Muhammad Ali
20) Gennady Golovkin
21) Oleksandr Usyk
22) Tyson Fury
23) Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson
24) Sumbu Kalambay
25) Chris Eubank Sr.
26) Roberto Duran
27) Terence Crawford
28) Ike Ibeabuchi
29) Yuri Arbachakov
30) Lou Collazo
31) Oscar De La Hoya
32) Jeff Chandler
33) Juan Manuel Marquez
34) Manny Pacquiao
35) Vilomar Fernandez

 

Yeah “favorites” was kind of a stretch for a bunch of mine, but since I like them more than other boxers, I guess it’s still an accurate description.