Who is you Favorite boxer in history?

Evander Holyfield, and here's why: he fought with the most HW champions, and he wasn't afraid of anyone. If the others had done the same, we would have watched the fights:
Lewis - Bowe
Tyson - Bowe
Klitschko brothers - Valuev
AJ - Tyson Fury
AJ - Wilder... and many more.
And who wouldn't like to watch that?

 

Armando Muniz

First saw him in an aired time-filler fight in a 6-rounder where he engaged a bigger, more experienced fighter and took out the bigger man in about 4 rounds. I was in awe watching him. After that I'd be running to my Pops when I would see his name in the TV listings saying, "Dad, there's an Armando Muniz fight this week." Needless to say, followed every step of his career and was thrilled when I eventually met him and continued to meet up with him and eventually became fast friends and are to this day. Just loved his all-action style.

 

Dwight Muhanmmad Qawi, and Vitali Klitcschko.

 

I suppose if I had to go for someone it would have to be Marvin Hagler.

The whole story from fighting at lower levels, fighting danger men in their back gardens, to never getting a title shot until senators had to get involved, to having a heartbreak in his first shot at that title, to travelling to UK to finally wining his title and becoming undisputed champion after, how they haven’t made a film on his career is beyond me.

Hard man, willing to fight anyone, and never letting anyone down, more
skilled than given credit for, and a manic trainer. Great fighter. Personal life sketchy, as a fighter exceptional.

 

Evander Holyfield was my favorite of all time. There are a lot of reasons why.

 

Kelly Pavlik because I’m a huge Ohio State Buckeye fan and he wore buckeye shorts when he whipped Jermaine Taylor.

 

Forgot about Qawi. Him too lol

 

The more I read threads like this the more I wish boxing was on free to air TV. Money keeps it going no doubt but in terms of real popularity I doubt average people would recognise Canelo on the street or can say they’ve seen him fight…

 

My favourite was Ali to begin with, due in no small part to the greater accessibility to literature and vision on the man - to the point of precluding due address and treatment of other great fighters. .

Scratch the surface a bit deeper and you find and see more stuff on great fighters like Liston etc.

I’ve mainly settled on Joe Louis as the closest fighter to favourite for the greater period of time. At his best, the Bomber is a pure joy to watch. The technical proficiencies, with the lightning speed and sublime power is just what the boxing doctor ordered.

I’m pretty sure moneytheman would agree with me - I’ve noticed he’s a Louis fan like myself. Louis is the man. Word! Haha.

 

I would go with Leonard. I just loved his footwork and danced effortlessly around the ring since the the Olympics he was a joy to watch. He could fight too as we seen in Duran 1

 

I just recently re-watched Foreman v Qawi. Now there’s one for the books! The size difference was insane - 5’7” vs at least 6’3”.

Qawi was heavy at a flabby 222 lb, Foreman relatively svelte at 235 lb. Fun fight. Foreman would be thumping Qawi who appeared almost impervious to George’s power then Dwight would come alive belting Foreman back with both hands, no mean power behind the shots. Qawi had an extraordinary reach of 74” vs his height.

I really thought George might gas and get overrun but the accumulative effect of his big shots was ultimately too much - and Qawi was probably somewhat gassed himself anyway. The commentators suggested Qawi “foxed”’on a few occasions - I disagree, I think Dwight would literally get badly hurt for a moment but then bounce back with a vengeance.

At his size, Qawi had no business tangling with a HW the size of Foreman but I’ve always felt that Dwight still gave an excellent account of himself. For George, that fight didn’t end a second too soon and he afforded Qawi due credit for his durability.

 

It depends where you are.

 

tommy hearns

 

What did he do in his personal life that was so bad?

 

What? Really? Here in AUS it’s all PPV. I’m shooting in the dark here but aren’t all the Thai boxers on free for view (boxers not the Muay Thai guys) in there country?