Why does everyone say SRR was the best of all time

When did I say that I saw Sugar Ray Robinson fight live? I'm not even old enough to remember seeing S inugar Ray Leonard in his prime. According to Tyson fans, I was only 5 when Tyson's prime ended.

 

Fair enough! About SRR and Greb? I was saying Robinson was the best,. didnt know if you were arguing if Greb was?

 

Everybody is influenced and make their opinions on judgements they have read or listened to. You rely on opinions of others to judge the fight and whatever spin they want to put into their opinion. You accept some and not others, but your opinion on many subjects will be a mish-mash of other people's opinions.

 

" Most people have not seen SRR fight live in his prime which can make judgeing his greatness difficult"

Thats what you said pal, just thought it was funny, made it out like you had seen him prime time!

 

Robinson is almost undisputably the #1 greatest of all time.

He isn't the best though.

 

Good point, probably have him the same, maybe Armstrong 3rd, poss Saddler 4th, but hey, its all subjective!

 

Everyone has flaws, I was obviously kidding.

But Jordan was no more of a ballhog than anyone else who scored like he did, and his shooting percentage is very high for a shooting guard. He was abusive, but also elevated his teamates play, and his 3 point shooting was average, not bad at all, just not good.

 

Yes. I believe he would be very marginally better were he around today too.

 

SRR would probably desstry any WW around today, even PB!

 

Yes, if he were trained in the modern times. But judging from his footage alone, absolutely not.

 

I find this insulting.

 

Bull ****, what, floyd would run for 15 rounds and get a decision? he would get pounded everytime he tried a jab!

 

His shooting percentage was high becasue he drove to the hoop alot. He didn't start hitting that mid range jumper until later in his career. Until Phil Jackson got there, the biggest knock on Jordan was that he didn't make his teammates better. For his career Jordan was 33% percent 3 point shooter and he was under 20% every year for the first 3 to 4 years of his career. None of this really has much to do with the thread topic anyway. Except that it shows that people have an inflated opinion of Jordan. The same could be true in regards to SRR

 

No, actually Floyd would just rip him to pieces. Ray's hands are far too low and he's also too squared up at all times, even with the best timing ever, he's open to be brutalised. But of course, this was the inferior style, I am not saying he's an inferior physical specimen or era/era fighter, because on that notion, he is technically the best ever.

His speed is also nowhere near Floyd's for that matter, on top of massive technical issue's.