Your personal top 10 favourite fighters

Interesting pick, a little bit of a surprise. Liston at #10 is a slight surprise. Knew you liked him but didn't know that much.

 

I would also like to add
Fernando Vargas
Alexis Arguello
Evander Holyfield
Manuel Ortiz
RIchie Sandoval
Juan M Marquez
Marvin Hagler
Thomas Hearns
Carlos Palomino
Michael Spinks-Mando Ramos

 

A noob's perspective:
1) Joe Frazier
2) Pernell Whitaker
3) Ray Robinson
4) James Toney
5) Lennox Lewis
6) Mike Tyson
7) Rocky Marciano
8) Emanual Augustus
9) Roy Jones Jr.
10) Manny Pacquaio

 

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Sugar Shane Mosley
3. Naseem Hamed
4. Mick Jennings
5. Lennox Lewis
6. George Foreman
7. Joe Calzaghe
8. Peter Kane
9. Manny P
10. B-Hop

 

1. randy turpin
2. ken buchanan
3. benny lynch
4. jack kid berg
5. nigel benn
6. john conteh
7. sonny liston
8. ezzard charles
9. jerry quarry
10. ike williams/joe louis/lew jenkins

the top 5 are cast in stone, the others vary

 

Besides El Torito:

Marvin Hagler
Dick Tiger
Carlos Monzon
Pipino Cuevas
Roberto Duran
Aaron Pryor
Tommy Hearns
Julian Jackson
George Foreman
Muhammed Ali

 

what a list !!!.a crowd pleasing dream.nice one.muhammad would suit that list.

 

You like them Latin-American fighters

 

Sure do but dont most fans?:yep

Besides Holyfield,ali,Tyson,Ali,Hagler,hearns arent Latino.

Dont you like your countreyman? Max Schmeling is your favorite right?

 

Since most mentioned more than ten I will add a few others too:
Bob Fitzsimmons, Joe Choynski, Jack Johnson, Sam McVey, Frank Klaus, Mickey Walker, Johann-Wilhelm Trollmann, Barney Ross, Lew Jenkins, Max Baer, Walter Neusel, Ike Williams, Peter Müller, Joey Giardello, Bubi Scholz, Harold Johnson, Nino Benvenuti, Carlos Monzon, Eckhard Dagge, Rodrigo Valdez, Alexis Arguello, Julio Cesar Vazquez, Bernard Hopkins, Manny Pacquiao, Sebastian Sylvester

 

Oh, there are Latinos on my Top10 too :good

Yep, Max Schmeling is my favourite, not because he is German though. Not even for his boxing career but because of his life. The most impressive person in boxing history imo. He wasn´t called "the good human of Hollenstedt" in his last years for nothing.

 

Acually ive only grazed the surface there are a WHOLE looooooooooot of boxers i admire that i havent listed. Many of the guys i listed are from the West Coast(like Me) and fighters i have met or become acquainted with. Didnt Max become a rich man after and helped Joe Louis out? also didnt he save some Jewish kids or hide them out during the War?

 

Ah, I don´t have that kind of local patriotism. I admire fighters not where they are from.

Max did many, many good things. He helped out Jou Louis and paid for his funeral, he also paid some of Langford´s ambulance bills when he was found by some journalist in NY. He did not only help those two kids but quite a few more during the Nazi regime and stepped in against Hitler and Goebbels themselves more than once to protect his Czechen wife and Jewish manager. He himself never talked about it, this actions were always brought up by others. When he asked why he said because it isn´t worth talking about, everybody would have done these things. He also didn´t become rich just like that, he worked hard for it. He had two own successful businesses before becoming head of Coca Cola Germany. After WW2 he was the biggest benefactor of post war Germany until he died. After his wife died in the late 80s he gave most of his wealth to charity and when he died the rest followed.

The best biography I have read of him is the most recent: Schmeling - 1905-2005. Don´t know if it´s available in English though.

btw. they just showed Schmeling KOing Louis on TV on a history programm over here

 

:good

 

Muhammad Ali
Erik Morales
Julio Cesar Chavez
Willie Pep
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roberto Duran
Pernell Whitaker
Prince Naseem Hamed
Sugar Ray Robinson
Joe Calzaghe
Thomas Hearns

(OK, I cheated, there`s 11)

The top 2 are set in stone, the rest can be switched around in almost any order without complaint :good