your favourite fighter, and why?

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  1. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    who is your favourite fighter. any era. just as long as you say one person no oh well i like frazier AND ali equally:think becuase it reuins the whoel thread.

    AND

    why you pick them?
     
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  2. sues2nd

    sues2nd Fading into Bolivian... Full Member

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    Ever?

    Pernell Whitaker

    And this is why...

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  3. Heavyrighthand

    Heavyrighthand Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Vitali Klitschko.

    Very disciplined, extremely high KO percentage, massive guy, very hard puncher, and a mean streak that makes him willing to go toe to toe and exchange when things get heated.

    Not to mention that he is a very compassionate person who had done extensive charity work, as well as being highly educated, and he (along with his brother) being the first on his level of boxing to also hold a PHD.

    He's a rare blend of intellect, education, and physical strength. Noone in the history of the sport has ever acheived his level of both academics, and his world class level of professional boxing. (other than his brother, of course)
     
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  4. Scorpion

    Scorpion Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Currently Miguel Cotto because he fought a string of undefeated prospects, contenders and former world champions. He is beautiful to watch, he is always entertaining and because he is a bad ass.
     
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  5. Punisher33

    Punisher33 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tyson, he was violent in and out of the ring, outspoken, and put boxing on the map, like Ali did a generation before him. He was the fighter that made me want to box, and if I ever met him, I would tell him how lucky I was to view the closest thing to a perfect fighter I ever seen.
     
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  6. BlueApollo

    BlueApollo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    One favorite? From all eras? I just can't do it. I love too many fighters for too many different reasons to name only one.
     
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  7. chimba

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    ALI Bumaye
     
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  8. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Charley Burley. Only one film of the great man exsists, his defeat of LHW contender and banger Oakland Billy Smith.

    Smith was a proper puncher at 175. Burley was a welterweight. Watching the fight of the film, it's clear that Burley is the puncher in the fight.

    He was also lightning quick. Some of those who have seen both Burley (who only made it to NY once - an early KO) and Roy Jones live at ringside say the two are compatible in terms of reaction times.

    He didn't match Roy for handspeed but he was a busy fighter when need be. All time great Archie Moore describes him as a "human riveting gun" and "inhuman...throwing punches from every angle". Burley gave Moore the beating of his life. Moore never rematched him. Archie did describe Chrarley as "the best fighter he ever fought." Praise indeed from a man who was in with a who's who of boxing over a sprawling career - but there it is, Moore rates Burley above Clay, Moore, Patterson, Charles, Booker etc. etc etc.

    Most of all Burley was a man. He absolutley refused to work with fixers or money men. This is why ATG fighters like Henry Armstrong and Sugar Ray Robinson were allowed to duck him. Why Zivic was allowed to buy out his contract to avoid fighting him again. Hell, even LaMotta ducked Burley ("what the hell do I need Burley for when I have Zivic?").

    It is said that Burley was offered a three fight series with Sugar - but only if he would tank the first one. Charley refused.

    Years later, having retired prematurely undable to find fights and going to work for the city as a garbage man, Charley said:

    "I don't have to many regrets. You keep a part of yourself by not doing those things. I wouldn't change it."

    There might have been better fighters in this business, but there haven't been any more honest.
     
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  9. cpnasty

    cpnasty Fight Fan 83 Full Member

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    Pernell Whitaker. I just loved his slickness.
     
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  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Good answer.

    I think I may underate that man...was there ever a fighter that was so hard to hit whilst in range?
     
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  11. I_Neutral

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    Sugar ray robinson

    He had the essence!
     
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  12. chimba

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    Yes Prime Roy Jones..The man went a round without getting hit..a record to this day
     
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  13. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Who was it that he did that against?

    I rate Roy (Actually slightly above Jones) but it should always be said Whitaker sought out the very best. There's an off chance I could go a round without getting hit v a postman.
     
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  14. Punisher33

    Punisher33 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Thats funny you brought up Charley Burley, I met his grandson who I guess is in his late 30s, early 40s. He was unloaded a truck for a company I worked at a couple years back, I think he said he lived in Homestead or East liberty in my hometown of Pittsburgh, he told me a couple good stories about his grandfather and how he told about all the fights he had at the old Forbes field, and that he always wished he could of gone back and finished Moore off when he had the chance in there fight.
     
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  15. sues2nd

    sues2nd Fading into Bolivian... Full Member

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    A record also held by Bernard Hopkins....
     
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