The FIVE BEST fighters of all time, in your opinion.

So ONLY list five..ONLY!!!

I don't want to see any wannabe historians, listing the 50 best fighters of all time in order to appear learned.

List the FIVE fighters YOU think are the most talented all round and most unbeatable when they were at their very bests. Not necessarily talking about "greatness".

As such...and in no particular order except Alphabetical...

Muhammad Ali
Roy Jones Jnr
Floyd Mayweather Jnr
Ray Robinson
Pernell Whitaker

 

Is this going to end up being another "define best vs. greatest" debate? :doh:

 

in no specific order

whitaker
duran
leonard
robinson
armstrong

 

N No Order...

Cassius Clay (the PRE-Exile Version of Muhammad Ali)
Sugar Ray Robinson
Roy Jones Jr.
Roberto Duran
Sugar Ray Leonard

U Could Put these 5 Guys N ANY Era of Boxing & They'd B Just as DOMINANT as they Were N their Own Era's...



REED

 

Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Roberto Duran
Henry Armstrong
Pernell Whitaker/Edre Jofre (tie)

 

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Robinson, Leonard, Duran, Roy, Ali.

 

Armstrong
Duran
Robinson

 

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Marvin Hagler
Willie Pep
Salvador Sanchez
Sugar Ray Robinson
Joe Louis

 

Leonard
Jones
Robinson (probably)
Chavez
Tunney (probably)

 

you can't have Chavez, and not Duran. i can't have it. what do you think this is? up to you?

Tunney? Gimme a break.

 

Robinson
Duran
Armstrong
Greb
Ali

End debate.

 

A man with sense.:bears:

 

1. Mike Tyson
2. Michael Spinks
3. Tony Tucker
4. Frank Bruno
5. Razor Ruddock

 

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you forgot Pinklon Thomas. he supplants Spinks.

 

I'm only listing guys I've seen a decent amount of footage in their prime (I've seen very little footage of Robinson @ 147 and it's grainy).

Roberto Duran
Muhammad Ali
Sugar Ray Leonard
Pernell Whitaker
Roy Jones Jr.

Maybe Marvin Hagler and Carlos Monzon get in there and I take a couple out. Michael Spinks, J.C. Chavez, and Floyd Mayweather are pretty damn good too. Tough choice. I suck at making lists. Henry Armstrong and others would probably be there if I've seen more footage of them in their prime. I'm still catching up on watching film of Eder Jofre.

 

if we don't consider accomplishments at all, then i'd definitely add Sal Sanchez to my list of Duran, Armstrong and Robinson. but as it stands, it's tough for me to think of anyone else who belongs on the same list as thos three guys.

even Ali, with all he did, doesn't compare to these guys.

these three are in a class of their own: Duran, Armstrong and Robinson.

 

Duran is overrated by many. He was a really good weight cutter, I'll give him that. Multi-time quitter. Chin failed him often. Outboxed by bums in the middle of his career. Blown away by Hearns...and on and on.

Tunney was an asskicker. Didn't he beat Greb (everyone's favorite never seen fighter) multiple times. He whipped Dempsey like a bitch. And he fought in a style far ahead of his time.

 

"Chin failed him often?" Yeah. Once.

Blown away by Hearns? Yeah, at 154, during his third career.

I don't know about Tunney. When I see the guy fight, I'm thinking: "Jirov could beat this guy."

 

I was a Sanchez fan while he was fighting, but I think he gets the "died young" extra credit these days. He was quite the fighter, but he wasn't even clearly the best fighter in his weight class while he was champion. Co-champ Eusbio Pedroza was as highly regarded as Sanchez (at least by those who followed the sport closely) and a fight between the two was considered a pretty even match. And Sanchez never seemed all that eager to face Pedroza in the ring. There's no doubt he was one of the best fighters of his time, but I don't know that I see him among the very best ever.

 

Good list, but a more accurate one would look like this...
1. 1988 Tyson
2. 1987 Tyson
3. 1986 Tyson
4. 1989 Tyson

 

yea. sanchez often gets praised, yet a guy like Masao Ohba is hardly ever mentioned.

 

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Actually, you got the order correct.:bears:

 

Joe Louis
Roberto Duran
Sugar Ray Robinson
Marvin Hagler
Wilfred Benitez

 

JJ Jeffries
Benny Leonard
Duran
Robinson
Clay.

 

...is what I would've expected.

 

Well, you can drag a haws to water, but you can't make him drink.

 

Top Five

1. Joe Louis
2. Carlos Monzon
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Ray Robinson
5. Rocky Marciano

 

Louis
Charles
Jersey Joe Walcott
Billy Conn
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