Your choices for fighters with the strongest will to win

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  1. paulfv

    paulfv Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I was just writing about Hopkins in another thread and felt this topic might make a good thread.

    What fighters do you feel have, or have had, the greatest will to win/refusal to lose in the history of boxing?

    Several I can think of off the top of my head:

    Rocky Marciano
    Hopkins (amazing what he has come back from and to do what he's doing at his age)
    Calzaghe
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Vitali Klitschko
    Nigel Benn

    Of course, there are guys with equal wills to win who happen to be less talented than those mentioned above.

    Also, there are guys who once had an incredible will to win but after suffering a setback/adversity lost that will, confidence or whatever. Examples include:

    Mike Tyson
    Roberto Duran (No mas)

    I'm not putting Duran down. He had an unbelievable desire to win. It's just a reference point of a guy who came up against a situation that turned him from aggressor to either passive participant or guy who took a way out. In other words, someone whose will or belief in his ability to win got sapped.

    Who are some of the strongest-willed guys in the sport of boxing you have ever seen?
     
  2. Napoleon

    Napoleon Smokin' Full Member

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    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Bobby Chacon
    Carmen Basilio
    Danny Lopez
    Mathew Saad Muhamad
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    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jake LaMotta no doubt
     
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    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Jake LaMotta
    Carmen Basilio
    Arturo Gatti
    Israel Vazquez
     
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    DaHead242 Active Member Full Member

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    Mickey Ward
    Digeo Corrales
     
  10. EL-MATADOR

    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Vargas had a great will to win. He just came up short in his biggest fights
     
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    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    BADINTENTIONS2 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    in recent time....

    diego corrales, mickey ward, arturo gatti
     
  14. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Zelenoff,relentless will to win
     
  15. butler08

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    sam peter definatly:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: