Top five of the last forty years ?

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  1. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Name your top five fighters of the last forty years in terms of natural boxing ability.

    CONSIDER

    speed
    reflexes
    style
    movement
    ring generalship
    offence
    defence
    timing
    counterpunching

    Just to get the old ball rolling, in chronological order:

    Ali
    Leonard
    Sweetpea
    Jones
    Mayweather
     
    cuchulain, Sep 27, 2007
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  2. Luigi1985

    Luigi1985 Cane Corso Full Member

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    Don´t forget John Ruiz!
     
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  3. Luigi1985

    Luigi1985 Cane Corso Full Member

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    Agreed, his skills are just in another league, that wouldn´t be fair for the likes of Duran, SRL, etc... :good
     
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  4. Street Lethal

    Street Lethal Active Member Full Member

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    1967-2007

    Duran

    Hagler

    Chavez

    Whitaker

    Ali

    Loosely in that order.
    If it were the past 50 years and thus included the 1960s, then Ali is on top.
     
    Street Lethal, Sep 27, 2007
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  5. Blacc Jesus

    Blacc Jesus . Full Member

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    Ali
    RJJ
    Tyson
    Sweet Pea
    Toney
     
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  6. Holmes' Jab

    Holmes' Jab Master Jabber Full Member

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    Ali
    Sweet Pea
    Leonard
    Tyson
    Duran
     
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  7. rendog67

    rendog67 The firestarter Full Member

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    those would also be my choices :good
     
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  8. brooklyn1550

    brooklyn1550 Roberto Duran Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali
    Pernell Whitaker
    Roberto Duran
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Roy Jones, Jr.
     
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  9. Ironside

    Ironside New Member Full Member

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    RJJ
    Hagler


    doesn't matter who the other ones are.
     
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  10. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    I will only include a fighter who's career started from 1967 onwards, or at least won their first world title 1967 onwards. Muhammad Ali's prime can't be counted, so he's not in my top five.

    Roberto Duran
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Pernell Whitaker
    Marvin Hagler
    Roy Jones Jr
     
    Robbi, Sep 28, 2007
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  11. Luigi1985

    Luigi1985 Cane Corso Full Member

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    :think Toney? C´mon...
     
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  12. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Ali
    Leonard
    Duran
    JonesJnr
    Hagler/Whitaker
    On the bench Holmes,Napoles,Foster.
     
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  13. TIGEREDGE

    TIGEREDGE Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Duran
    leonard
    Ali
    Jones
    tyson

    Even though i don't think jones was as great as people say, he did have some great ability. for me though, he never proved that he had the killer instinct, heart and chin required to be a great fighter
     
    TIGEREDGE, Sep 28, 2007
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  14. Bill Butcher

    Bill Butcher Erik`El Terrible`Morales Full Member

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    If you are talking pure boxers who use reflexes, speed & rarely allow themselves to get dragged into a brawl then, my friend, I agree 100% with your top 5.

    If your talking just plain greatest fighters p4p then my list is
    ali
    leonard
    duran
    whitaker
    chavez

    3 stay the same but I rate duran & chavez a notch higher than jones & floyd.

    Good stuff nonetheless.
     
    Bill Butcher, Sep 29, 2007
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  15. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jones and Hagler stand out as the most complete fighters. I consider Jones to fit the definition of a true sugar Ray.

    Ali wasn't a complete fighter and his defense really suffered. you can't say Muhammud was a great defensive fighter although, he had to be the showman of the century-the most influencial athlete I've ever seen.

    Other fighters to consider as top flight boxers-the slickest of the slick are Camacho and Thomas Hearns who was very hard to outbox. You could throw in Pernell. He had top flight skills who learned everything he knew from his idol, Camacho.
     
    redrooster, Sep 29, 2007
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