Your top five favourite fighters of all-time (strict criteria)

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  1. Raging B(_)LL

    Raging B(_)LL KAPOW!!! Full Member

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    Yeah, anything you can get your hands from each fighter is what I recommend, all of their fights were entertaning.
     
  2. brando18b4h

    brando18b4h Active Member Full Member

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    Dempsey
    Duran
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Joe Louis
    Ali
     
  3. Nick Balsamo

    Nick Balsamo Member Full Member

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    1. Marvin Hagler

    A mean machine, cold blooded and hard as nails. Could do about everything well in the ring. Could hit with power from both stances. His overall skills, paired with jab, combinations, toughness and constant agressiveness make him fifty-fifty with any MW who ever lived. Hagler didn't knew fear or pain. He just didn't. Ask Tommy Hearns. Hagler could hit with pure rage and pretty good power and volume. His chin was made of granite. A true professional, he climbed through such a process to overcome Don King's deloyal tactics and finally claim his deserved MW crown. Those painful and hostile Philly nights slowly built this fighting soldier.


    2. Aaron Pryor

    A strange phenomenon. Fast, mobile, powerful with good enough handspeed to land endless bunches of punches from all angles. Could be called a pressure fighter or a boxer puncher because he moved pretty well too. His stamina was incredible given the number of punches he threw per round. Always moving, he never was really hard to hit but his chin and recuperative powers were great. Aaron Pryor was so self-confident, so cocky, so scrappy, so careless defensively, he was so often caught off balance.. and so often he would take your best punch and kick your ass after that. Pryor is a fascinating fighter who never lost during his prime. Too bad drugs ruined him.


    3. Nigel Benn

    Mr. Excitement was in for a war each time he stepped between the ropes. It was kill or be killed due to his shaky chin and questionnable stamina counterbalanced with his brutal power and never surrended attitude. Often stunned, rarely KO'ed. The way he could put your lights out impressed me, the way he came back to win was really courageous. The way he throws these murderous right hand bombs thrills me each and every time I see a Benn fight. His heart and excitement level could be compared with the likes of Arturo Gatti and Matthew Saad Muhammad.


    4. Salvador Sanchez

    He did everything so well, so smoothly. He moved well offensively & defensively, his punches were sharp and accurate, his chin was superb and stamina was legendary. Never panicked in the ring. Always fresh, calm and in control. Worked like a surgeon, with pinpoint, perfectly timed combos. He was able to keep control from the outside or dish it out closer with calculated burst on the inside. One of the most flawless fighters ever. It's really sad we didn't have the chance to see him face Pedroza or Arguello.


    5. Sugar Ray Robinson

    There never will be another Robinson. His style is the most beautiful ever. To see what kind of fast, accurate and murderous punches he could throw lets me speechless. A classic boxer-puncher with explosive power, fast hands, movement, grace and toughness. I just like his elegant style. Robinson wasn't a defensive specialist but with that kind of killer arsenal, No doubt about it, the 147 lbs version of Robinson is the best fighter ever.
     
  4. SuperSouthpaw

    SuperSouthpaw Member Full Member

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    1. Corrie Sanders
    2. Michael Sprott
    3. Johnny Duploy
    4. Bert Cooper
    5. Bobby Czyz


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  5. heehoo

    heehoo TIMEXICAH! Full Member

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    Salvador Sanchez
    Roberto Duran
    Julio Cesar Chavez
    Sam Langford
    Aaron Pryor
     
  6. Chinxkid

    Chinxkid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Such a great post, fun to read. Thanks.
     
  7. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Well my last 5 would be-----
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  8. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rocky Marciano...
    Marvin Hagler...
    Tommy Hearns...
    Joe Louis...
    Jack Dempsey...
     
  9. Bill Butcher

    Bill Butcher Erik`El Terrible`Morales Full Member

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    Im KIND OF bending the thread rules here.

    My top 5 are several posts away so here is the other 5 - in other words 6-10 - that I was dying to mention in no order -

    Willie Pep
    Alexis Arguello
    Joe Calzaghe
    Ray Robinson
    Pernell Whitaker
     
  10. Guido

    Guido ESB Addict Full Member

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    1 - Muhammad Ali
    2 - Roberto Duran
    3 - James Toney
    4 - Jack Dempsey
    5 - Sugar Ray Robinson
     
  11. FromWithin

    FromWithin Living for the city Full Member

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    Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran
    Muhammad "The GOAT" Ali
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    "Iron" Mike Tyson
    Bernard "The Executionner" Hopkins
     
  12. warrior85

    warrior85 R.I.P THUNDER Full Member

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    hatton,gatti,benn,calzaghe,hearns
     
  13. elindiomonzon

    elindiomonzon Active Member Full Member

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    1 Carlos Monzon
    2 Kostya Tszyu
    3 Mike Tyson
    4 Alexis Arguello
    5 Nicolino Locche
     
  14. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Thats 10. The first one to break the rules. A flawless thread until you came along.


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  15. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    Roberto Duran
    Muhammad Ali
    Pernell Whitaker
    Alexis Arguello

    and I'll go out on a limb with my top choice by saying... Emmanuel Augustus.

    He may not be my favorite fighter of all-time (tough to really say), but all the others are all-time greats so I felt like adding a man who wasn't, plus I think I enjoy watching his fights more than anyone else. The man's crazy. He's certainly the most unique fighter I've ever seen, I could literally watch 15 or 20 of his fights back-to-back and never get bored no matter who he's fighting or what the end result is. I can't say the same for anyone else. Also, I love the "fight on a week's notice in the other guys' back yard" mentality, especially when he did this and outclassed the young over-hyped kids.