Who are your favourite fighters?

Your taste is unique, I'll give you that. But nah, mines are the tops. Different eras.

Yours are more historic, but not as smart. My avatars are as rare as rocking horse **** even though they aint as old historically as yours.

 

On the subject of your avatars Robbi, i would just like to say-

WHHHHEEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!!!

I see you have finally picked one of Duran beating on Leonard for a change! I know your a big Duran fan!

 

Ali is the greatest cuz he was a heavyweight who could throw a jab faster than sugar ray robinson who is regarded as the best pound for pound of all time. It's funny people don't realise how great he was at his peak in the 60s. The 70s version could still beat the best but he was nothing compared to the 60s version. He toyed with his opponents and correctly predicted which rounds they fell. Liston knew he was gonna go in the 8th but retired before his prediction came true. What a fighter.

 

:hi:

 

1. Kostya Tszyu

2. Jeff Fenech

3. Marvin Hagler

4. Mike Tyson

5. Les Darcy (Although theres no real footage ive read 3 books on Darcy).

 

There actually is footage of him.

 

Now that's an avatar Robbi. It's hotting up McGrain!!! Kidding!

 

1 Joe Frazier- Joe came to fight...always!!!! I loved his bob and weave style and agresiveness.

2 Azumah Nelson- Able to box or fight...the professor/warrior always entertained me.

3 Alexis Arguello- seems to me to be the text book boxer. he never seemed to be the quickes or strongest, but I don't favor many to beat him. Very precise.

4 Ismael laguna- Forgotten by many..I was always impressed by how fluid and slick he was.

5 Boom Boom Mancini- Gatti before there was Gatti.

6 Tony The Tiger Lopez- I loved watching him go to war

 

1. Bernard Hopkins

Well, i came to boxing in the mid-90s here in Germany with names like Maske, Ottke and so on but i never got really hooked up but watched nearly all fights shown over here. Then Felix Sturm became a beltholder and had his fight with Oscar. During the fight the commentator started telling about Hopkins and that DLH would fight this 39-year-old man if he wins. That got me interested in Hopkins, i started to watch every fight of him available and finally got hooked up. He has it all. A phenomenal career and an interesting life.

2. Roberto Duran

Everywhere i read something about boxing one name occurred, the name of Roberto Duran. Robbi said already nearly everything about him. Like hopkins he combines a great career with an extraordinary life. I like that.

3. Gustav "Bubi" Scholz

He became a pro at age 18 shortly after WWII when amateur boxing was forbidden in Germany by the Allies. So, he started as a pro but didn´t get a licence first because he was thought of as beeing too small and too weak. Well, during his career he proved them wrong. He fought as a lw, ww, mw and lhw during his career but his greatest wins were all at mw and lhw. After fighting the first 25% of his career as a light- and welterweight he stepped up to mw and won the German mw title very fast but had to drop out of boxing from 1954 till 1957 due to tubercolosis. He came back and beat the who is who of the European mw scene but while some of the guys he beat were allowed to box the great Americans of his time, he never got a shot. When he wanted to fight for the European mw title against Charles Humez, he first had to lose a non-title fight against him before he was allowed to fight for the title, which he won by TKO in round 12 in 1958. His only chance at a world title came in 1962 two weight classes above his prime weight and already past his prime against lhw champ Harold Johnson which he lost by a close decision. Scholz wasn´t really up to his game in this fight and never got over this loss. 1964 he became the European lhw champion but retired after that fight. After his career he would become an alcohol abuser and in 1984 he shot his wife through the bathroom door while beeing drunk and so hat to go to prison. He died in 2000 after some strokes and having Alzheimer´s disease.
He was a strong southpaw with his greatest assets being endurance, stamina and will. His final record was 88 wins, 2 losses and 6 draws with 46 knockouts.
During his active time he was not only the most successful German fighter but also the symbol for the rebuild after WWII and an icon. A guy who fought through poverty and disease to become wealthy, loved and admired just to fall to his own weaknesses.

4. Pernell Whitaker

Whitaker was an absolut magician in the ring, the best defensive fighter i saw in the ring. The most recent fighter who you could make an argument for beeing a top10 p4p fighter of all-time. His record seems to be the who is who of the great fighters of his time, never really beaten until he ran into Felix Trinidad while beeing years past his best and having some problems with coke. He still put on a great fight. While some disliked him for his clowning, i like him for it. Watching him fight is like poetry in motion. Out of this 5 fighter he is the only which is placed here only due to his skills inside the ring.

5. Max Schmeling

I don´t think i have much to write about his boxing career or his live after outside the ring and after boxing. I´m sure most of you know all the stories about him. Fact is that Max Schmeling was, and still is, greater than live. A great fighter and an even greater person. He was an icon during his career and he is one till now. Over here everybody knows him and when you here people talking about him their eyes seems to shine and in their voices are awestruck. He was vowed to be the greatest German sportman of the last hundred years and got dozens awards for his charitiy work, including the "Bundesverdienstkreuz" - the highest award there is in Germany. Well, thinking about it i should put him a bit higher.

I want to execuse me for some mistakes i surely made in the text.

 

Agreed. The mid 60's Ali was the greatest fighting machine I've ever seen.

 

Nothing hotting up. No contest.