Your All-Time Favorite Fighters by Division

Hw: bruno

That's pretty much it. The fighter I most admire is jeannette, how the hell do you come back from 20+ knockdowns in round 49? Amazing.

 

Impossible to whittle down to one but the first guys that come to mind:

Heavyweight: Joe Louis
Light Heavyweight: Matthew Saad Muhammad
Super Middleweight: Roy Jones
Middleweight: Marvin Hagler
Light Middleweight: Ayub Kalule
Welterweight: Kid Gavilan
Junior Welterweight: Saensak Muangsurin
Lightweight: Roberto Duran
Super Featherweight: Alexis Arguello
Featherweight: Ernesto Marcel
Super Bantamweight: Wilfredo Gomez
Bantamweight: Fighting Harada
Super Flyweight: Christian Mijares
Flyweight: Benny Lynch
Junior Flyweight: Chang Jung-Koo
Straw: Ricardo Lopez

 

This is sort of like choosing favourites between your children!

Heavyweight-Joe Louis
Light heavy-Tommy Loughran
Middleweight-Harry Greb
Welterweight-Joe Walcott
Lightweight-Bat Nelson
Featherweight-George Dixon
Bantemweight-Terry McGovern
Flyweight-Newsboy Brown

 

Heavyweight: Joe Louis
Light Heavyweight: Victor Galindez
Super Middleweight: Roy Jones
Middleweight: Marcel Cerdan
Light Middleweight: Thomas Hearns
Welterweight: SRL
Junior Welterweight: Aaron Pryor
Lightweight: Benny Leonard
Super Featherweight: Alexis Arguello
Featherweight: José Legra
Super Bantamweight: Wilfredo Gomez
Bantamweight: Jofre
Super Flyweight: Johnny Tapia and Watanabe
Flyweight: Harada
Junior Flyweight: Michael Carbajal
Strwaweight- Lopez

 

Langford going into the ring blind against flowers and securing a knockout victory is number 2 on my admiration list.

 

Flyweight: Chang & Zapata
Bantamweight: Chucho Castillo/Happy Lora
Featherweight: Howard Winstone/Wilfredo Gomez
Lightweight: Pernell Whitaker/Roberto Duran
Welterweight: Jose Napoles
Middleweight: Carlos Monzon/Roy Jones Jr.
Lt. Heavyweight: John Conteh/Matthew Saad Muhammad
Heavyweight: Iron Mike

 

Purely fighters of my time only, and not necessarily the greatest .
HWT- Joe Louis
LHW- Mathew Franklin
MW- Rocky Graziano
WW- Ray Robinson
LW- Beau Jack [my favorite action fighter]
FW- Alexis Arguello
BW- Carlos Zarate [oh could he hit ]

 

Amazing that you saw him live Burt....
What was his best night in the ring ??

 

Heavyweight: Muhammad Ali
Light Heavyweight: Matthew Saad Muhammad
Super Middleweight: Joe Calzaghe
Middleweight: Carlos Monzon/Marvin Hagler
Light Middleweight: Thomas Hearns
Welterweight: Ray Leonard
Junior Welterweight: Buddy McGirt
Lightweight: Alexis Arguello
Super Featherweight: Julio Cesar Chavez
Featherweight: Salvador Sanchez
Super Bantamweight: Wilfredo Gomez
Bantamweight: Jeff Chandler
Super Flyweight: Jiro Watanabe
Flyweight: Masao Ohba
Junior Flyweight: Roman Gonzalez
Strwaweight- Ricardo Lopez

 

I love Chandler as well natonic....

 

Interesting choices indeed:good

Care to explain?

(I'm actually surprised nobody has written a book on Nelson. Or has someone?)

 

Just pm'd you

 

I was thrilled that you and a few others have gotten a lot of Jofre footage out there. The best of the best. But still, Chandler's my homeboy.