Who are the best fighters?

Well, 00's and 10's, Johnson. 20's Dempsey, 30's Louis, 40's Louis, 50's Marciano, 60's Clay (Ali), 70's a mix of people. 80's Holmes. 90's, much like the 70's, a mix.

 

Its sometimes hard to put fighters into certain decades anyway. Leonard fought between the late 1910's and early 1920's. Pep was featherweight champion between 1946 and 1952. What happens for example a fighters reign is split in half between two decades. Example: Champion from 1968-1972.

 

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No, you just saw the bit where he didn't say 'pound-for-pound'

 

'Try to keep up' :huh

You're the one who made an error.

 

So you want to get trivial about it? We can get trivial. You are assuming he meant all fighters - that is the fact, because he never specified. Bill1234 infact answered the question more accurately than you because he never based his post on assumption, just on what the author wrote.

Now, I wouldn't have a problem with you making your own rules up, but when you try to pick up Bill1234 for writing something that is entirely within reason, you start to irritate me.

Trying to make me look like the errorneous one by using patronizing phrases such as 'try to keep up' will not work. You can try to argue with me all you want but the fact is, Bill's answer was perfectly reasonable and you shouldn't have picked him up on it. Again, the author never specified 'pound-for-pound' so Bill, quite rightly, would have assumed he meant just the sheer best in a direct (and not relative) sense - which would naturally be a heavyweight. He didn't have to specify 'heavyweights' - heavyweights are just better than all the lower weights; they're bigger. Ray Robinson is not beating Joe Louis.

Now let that be the end of it, it's hardly a big deal. Just don't pick up other people when you yourself are not untouchable.

 

You're making up your own rules again. The author never asked 'who was the most dominant?'

No, he titled the thread 'best fighters', then asked; 'the best fighters' - then he happened to add 'who dominated these eras' afterwards, which doesn't mean 'who was the most dominant?' Ray Robinson was surely more dominant over his own opposition than Joe Louis was over his, however he wasn't the dominant figurehead of the decade like Joe. If you asked me, in a direct sense, who dominated the '40s - I'd say 'Joe Louis' without a shadow of thought.

 

Manassa is delivering Sweet Pea a bitching like the UPS man.

 

"discuss and name the best fighters who dominated these eras". Fighters obviously means in general, thus from all weight classes. Thats the way 99% of the population would interpret such a phrase.

"Heavyweights are just better than the lower weights; they're just better". Robinson sure aint beating Louis, but when the question is asked "the best fighters who dominated eras" Someone is quite entitled to rank Robinson over Louis.

Only a heavyweight nuthugger would come to the conclusion to view heavyweights as the best fighters to dominate eras in each seperate decade.

 

You don't know me as a poster then. I very rarely talk about heavyweights. But this is how it is - Joe Louis would likely smash every fighter below his weight division. Even Ezzard Charles at his light heavyweight peak.

 

What he meant matters little - what bothers me is the fact you picked up Bill1234 for something he was well within his rights to say. There was no reason to harrass him, he merely stuck to the written agenda.

 

:yep

Sweet Pea needs to make stupid remarks due to a lack of self-confidence. Probably from all the family "loving" down in the "dirty" South.

:hi:

 

Tony Galento to one of the famous Leonards (Benny or Ray?) is a poor comparison. I can just as easily turn around and compare Dave Green to Rocky Marciano.

However you interpreted the question isn't what my gripe is about - you must understand this. Otherwise, I would have picked up TBooze as well. Infact, I would have responded to the thread just like him. It was your uncalled-for hounding of Bill1234.

 

He's asking the question in a boxing sense, well I think so, not dominating outside the ring as a figurehead. Who dominated the 40's, overall as an icon out of the ring, combined with domination inside the ropes, Louis. He was a bigger iconic figure to the general public, and was probably the most well known fighter in the world during the 40's. But a case could be made to rank Robinson over Louis in strictly in a boxing sense inside the ropes.

The question could have been asked in more detail, so it depends on how each on of us interprets the question.