Who in your opinion is the greatest boxer in the history of boxing?

Can only go off what I've seen on TV. So its Duran.

 

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I have to have Ali up there too

 

Tv era as mentioned above, at least fighters in their prime

Duran
Ali
Leonard

If we are talking ability, Floyd, Toney, sweet pea and Jones are good shouts also, but in greatness the top 3 stand out

 

Robinson is in a league of his own.

 

sugar ray robinson

 

to even be considered,you have to at least have fought 15 round fights

 

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao.

Boxing's ONLY...

• 8 Division Champ
• 5X Lineal Champion
• 4 Decades Champion
• Oldest Welterweight Champion

 

Koki Kameda

 

Duran

Fought harder opposition
Didn't have e as many Mickey mouse titles
Fought in 5 separate decades
Had many more fights than manny
Had higher win ratio
Higher knock out ratio

Beat one of the greatest fighters to ever live while jumping 2 weight classes. Didn't need no catch weight or night weight clauses

Went 15 rounds with one of the greatest Mw ever and pushed him very close. Hagler p4p one of the scariest dudes ever

On paper mannys stats are decent, but let's not pretend going life and death with marquez/Morales and beating up punch bags like margarito is anything close to Duran

Floyd even beat more world champs than manny ffs lol

Manny was so skinny to begin with because he was a malnourished kid, hence the extra divisions. Duran also wasn't on ariza supplements

Also Duran is recognised by many as being the GOAT Lw

Manny was never the Goat in any division

Prime Morales kicked his butt and Marquez was much better overall in their 4 fights. He was robbed of a decision for fight 3 and imo pretty much won every round, other than the first when he was knocked down 3 times, in their first battle

Duran had more f....g wins than Manny had fights. Likely more knockouts too

 

You want to talk about straight ability then Usyk needs to be thrown in there too.

 

100%

 

If Usyk was genuinely a contender for the greatest fighter of all time then he would have knocked out Chisora and Joshua even with the weight discrepancy.

 

I think he means boxing skills/iq etc

 

Was talking TV era greats. Ali couldnt even KO Frazier or Norton. Hell he lost to a prime Frazier and arguably lost to Norton. Taking away nothing from Ali, but not really any holes on Usyks resume.

 

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao

Boxing's ONLY...

• 8 Division Champ
• 5X Lineal Champion
• 4 Decades Champion
• Oldest Welterweight Champion

Let me know when just one of these records is broken.