who are the most intimidating/intense characters in boxing history?

Pauli mallignaggi

 

Tough question.

I'd go for Hagler. He had this indestructable aura.... only there was no 'aura', he WAS indestructable.

Duran runs him close, he literally was a ****ing beast.

Guys like Hearns, Benn, Pryor, Tyson etc are a step below, because they were fallible in that respect.

 

Chuck Norris

 

Audley Harrison

 

I don't really know about history, but Lee Selby is pretty intimidating.

 

Clubber Lang.

 

probably Tyson and Hagler.

i know i said this on another thread ,but i was watching something on Hagler on youtube a while back. And in the video there was some guy from Nevada State Athletic Commission that was assigned to watch Haglers hands being wrapped for the Hearns fight. He said he had been in hundreds of fighters dressing rooms doing this and was never as intimated as he was when he was in Haglers room. He said Hagler looked like he would tear your head off, just like a caged beast.

Tyson had a certain sense of invincibility back in the mid 80's. I was only 6 when Tyson and Spinks fought, and i can honestly remember thinking, "if i was Spinks, i wouldnt fight Tyson, he's going to kill him"

even at 6 i could tell how amazing Tyson was.

 

katsidis.

 

Superbad Steve Barnes.

The fact he slept in woods made him hard as nails and the pale skin really was intimidating.

 

Maybe also Ricardo Mayorga- the man is one serious loose cannon. Of all boxers I can think of he is the one I would least like to spill a pint over by mistake in a pub. He loves fighting and doesnt give a sh1t about anything

 

I always thought that Steve Collins and Herbie Hide were a pretty mean pair, although I think Hide had a bully mentality and could not handle people standing up to him.

One of the fights that fell through that I am most disappointed about was the Hide and Danny Williams one.

It was a few years back, when Williams was still a threat and there was genuine animosity between them.

I remember kicking off at a press conference and Hide flipped a table over, I think it was over Williams saying he had knocked Hide out cold in sparring.

 

Good description! :good