Your TWO favourite fighters of all time...???

I don't really have favourite all time fighters, but historically I like Joe Louis and currently a fighter I've followed from the beginning is Cotto so he may end up being one.

 

Abit cliche but Ali is the main man! Erik Morales being my very close number two!

 

tyson and dlh

 

Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran - both poetry in motion (in different ways) in their primes.

Honourable mention: MAB (and many others!)

 

MUHAMMAD ALI & ERIK MORALES

Different styles & personalities but both were 100% entertainment aswell as being very skillfull, both had tremendous heart & that invaluable iron chin.

Both always fought the best around, EVEN when they were a shell of themselves later on in their careers.

Ali was more vocal but both always told it like it was regardless of what the media etc. thought about it.

At their peak.... few were more reliable to beat the best & do it well.

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Just noticed your post, thats exactly how I have things.

Hard to believe that Erik doesnt make everybody`s list, they must not have seen him in his prime (or even recently, he`s still 100% warrior even if the skills have faded.)

Ps. I noticed your from Dublin, Ireland.... good ****.... we more than likely support the same footie team too with me being from Glasgow, Scotland.

Mon the hoops.

 

Erik Morales would be my favourite ever fighter, after that.........possibly the man in my avatar it's hard to say really .

 

Carlos Monzon - Scarily effective, he'd grind you down and there was nothing you could do about it. Moderately slow but methodical & H2H best ever middleweight for me, and tenth place in my pound for pound list. He was also a cool mother****er, despite the wife killing and all that minor stuff.

Nigel Benn - Power, brute strength, underrated boxing ability, amazing heart, good chin, generally a fighter no one in history would prefer to face in the ring in his prime. Legend.

Honorouble mentions - Alexis Arguello, Ken Buchanan, Benny Lynch, Duilio Loi, Roy Jones Junior, Nassem Hamed, Jose Napoles, David Haye.

 

Thomas Hearns is my definite all time number one. I find it hard to name just one other though.

 

I hope you'll be ringside on Saturday BigEars. I got the Marchiano-Mares fight on DVD. MArchiano looks a tough ****er and a come forward, head in your chest, kind of fighter. Going to be a tough test

As for the favourite 2, I'm going Marciano and then Dunne. Nothing to do with skills. Just a gut feeling of who I root for.
I love Marciano for his flaws, lack of skills but ability to get the job done. The ability to dig himself out of holes and just what I have learned of him having read about him etc...

Dunne is my main man. I'm 26 and I've still been following Bernard for 12 years. I remember watching him in the Am's here. Then charting his progress (including the horrible news when he had the faulty MRI) in America. Then my delight when he came home and brought Pro Boxing (along with Peters it must be said) back to Ireland.

I think lads in England, Scotland, Wales etc.. take it for granted that they have pro boxing on a regular (semi-regular basis) Pro boxing was dead for a decade here before Dunne woke everyone up to the fight game

 

Favourite all time fighters?

Now I know how tough it is, having the question flipped back at me!

So many to choose from... Marciano, Mayweather, Pacquiao, or even Micky Ward....

But on a personal level it was

Scotty Harrison... If he had kept the heid(as the old scottish saying goes) he could have been a star, but he didnt. Still though, I think he had the tools to be the greatest scottish fighter of all time.

Bernard Hopkins... I always adored him, loved the way he could dismantle any fighter, & loved his story, rags to riches at its best. Still hurts me that Calzaghe beat a 43 year old version, when Joe would have been destroyed if he had fought Bernard anytime between Bernard being 40 and under. when a 43 year old version floored, hurt & got robbed aginst Calzaghe, you KNOW a BHop in his late 30's would have whooped him.
I just thought I would add this bit as I didnt want people to read about how BHop was so great here in my eyes, & sit back smugly saying to themselves "& you know wht Dunk? Joe beat him."
You KNOW the truth Calzaghe fans. Joe beat a shell of the man. & its even debatable if he did actually beat BHop.

Anyway, I dont want to hijack the thread, so wont be replying if anyone questions me. I just had to say what had to be said, cos I HATE the thought of any Calzaghe fan daring to think he got the last laugh on BHop or me.

Anyway, back to the topic. & remember, I aint arguing the point.

Its Scotty & Hopkins for me.

 

Reading this thread and the other one about current boxers made me realise how much i don't like (not in a dislike way) boxing, where I don't really have favourites, couldn't give a **** about boxing sometimes and wouldn't cross the road to see most professional fighters.

 

Two words for you Macdaddy- 'Craig McEwan'

amazing amateur, unbeaten pro prospect trained by Freddie Roach, fights in America, wore a kilt in one of his earlier fights, wore a Scotland top in his last fight that Ishy has uploaded here on another thread, if that isnt enough to stoke the boxing fires inside you then dont say I didnt try my best.

 

James Toney
Roberto Duran

honourable mentions - Whitaker, Morales, Archie Moore.