Who was your favorite 80s LHW?

Matthew Saad Muhammad (Mid '70s-Early '80s)
- heart breaking back story
- turned pro with no fanfare or previous notoriety
- exciting fighting style
- tremendous fighting heart
- engaging, personable personality
- tremendous resume

 

Michael Spinks, because he was the best of em

 

For me Dennis Andries, i know more went on to achieve more, but i just loved his style his courage etc etc

gave us some great fights.

 

Dennis Andres.Strong as ox tough as old boots .
Achieved a lot for a limited boxer.
Prince Charles Williams. liked his movement jab and inside work .I also liked the fact he was named after Prince Charles!

 

I liked him also. and he beat Bobby Czyz easily. Which people forget. A good enough fighter. Fought Hearns and Czyz and Harding and a solid underrated fighter. Although my favorite of the 1980s was Spinks at lightheavy. Hearns would be there, he just did not fight there enough.

 

Eddie Mustafa Muhammad...he had "found himself" and really came into his own vs Marvin Johnson and Jerry Martin,...but frittered it away with the weight issues that were brought about by that foolish, moronic foray into the heavyweight division and that stoopid, pointless fight vs Renaldo Snipes.
He was, for a brief, glorious time, a supremely gifted fighter.

 

This

 

He did look good against Lotte Mwale in late '82. He looked in very good shape for that fight

Where he really screwed the pooch was failing to make weight for the second Spinks fight in summer '83, then refused to make weight. He claimed the scales were rigged. LOL. Can you think of another time a fighter refused to try to make weight? I can't. He could have tried to prove the first fight was partly determined by his dumb foray into the HW division then dropping weight so fast before the first Spinks fight. But he made himself look stupid. He even tried to say Spinks was scared because Spinks didn't agree to a 10 round non title over the weight fight. LOL. He was done after that although he did get a shot at the IBF title against Slobodan Kacer two years later. He was past it by then, though.

 

What he said

 

Kiko Martinez didn't bother to try to make weight at the weigh-in for his fight against Wayne McCullough in 2007, which led to a small riot at the weigh-in. It was only 1 3/4 lbs. and he had a few hours to do it, but didn't even try.

 

Qawi by far.

 

Virgil Hill. Beautiful jab, superb mastery of distance, and an underdog despite being an 84 Olympian.
He alluded to being somewhat of an outcast on the team, since he was from North Dakota. He said his biggest issue was with Frank Tate, who did win gold. We know how it went down in the pros.

 

It's gotta be Miracle Matthew.

 

Michael Spinks, mostly because I saw him fight more than the others.