Your top 5 favorite boxers of all time

Floyd? One of your all time favourite fighters? I mean seriously...

 

Sorry, next time theres a thread for you to pick my favourite fighters feel free to post :doh:

 

:bears:

 

What is there to like about Floyd?

Was it the baldomir performance that won you over? Or the de la hoya sparring session?

He is rightfully one of the best P4P fighters in the world, but amongst the least likeable fighters I've ever seen.

 

You can shut up, n00b. :bears:

 

:laughing:

 

dsimon writes:

Your just jealous that Kauki didn't ask you to do his list for him. Here is Kauki's:

1) Margarito

2) Maussa

3) Zoo

4) Slappsy Maxie Rosenbloom

5) Clottey

:: ::

 

Yes, Kauki's a cool guy, but he sure does pick em.

Marge, and TAYLOR of all people? I mean really, let's be sensible here.

 

dsimon writes:

oh shit I forget....

Honorable mention Taylor!

 

IN ORDER:

1)FELIX TRINIDAD
2)JOHN JOHN MOLINA
3)DIEGO CORRALES
4)EMMANUEL AUGUSTUS-BURTON
5)KERMIT CINTRON/MIGUEL COTTO CANT REALLY PICK ONE

 

1. Roy Jones
2. Erik Morales
3. Fernando Vargas
4. Mike Tyson
5. Miguel Cotto

 

why Vargas?

 

proximity

 

he got booted. ever since he started promoting, i've not been as big a fan of his. i liked his willingness to fight Hopkins, but since then, he's been too selective about who he fights for him to qualify as one of my favorites.

but i guess since the question, "of all time," i might need to rethink my excluding him, considering all that he's given us.

i think my list as it stands focuses too much on the present state of affairs.

 

Do you consider taking a dive against Hopkins "willingness" to fight?

 

Roy
Toney
Tito
Pac
Chico/Morales

 

:bears:

the mis-timed Caffiene is seriously my single favorite excuse EVER in boxing! I even put it above "bad shellfish" by DLH:bears: ::

 

mistimed caffeine? :: ::

Who said that?

 

i consider it a giant leap to make such a claim about a guy who's shown as much guts as he did time after time throughout his career. and i also think if you watch the shot carefully, it's not as light and insignificant as people make it out to be.

 

I think it's foolish not to at least consider it.

 

Vinny Paz, after getting uttlerly DOMINATED by Roy Jones said that what happened was... he always has a cup of coffee right before a fight. So he had his coffee, then Roy took too long coming out to the Ring so Vinny was crashing from the Caffiene when the fight started::

as if that explaines the fight

also.. if you were fighting 12 rounds.. wouldn't your cafiene run out anyway ? :laughing:

 

I'm as big of a Paz fan as you're gonna sse, but even I was like "Oh, no...you did NOT say that..." when I heard about it. ::

 

it actually made me like him more::

 

Didn't he also credit his haircut as a reason he beat Rosenblatt?

(Saying it psyched him out or something.)

 

Why Marciano and Dempsey? Wouldn't you rather pick a fighter you've actually seen fight?

 

In no particular order:

Cassius Clay
Pernell Whitaker
Mike McCallum
Nigel Benn
Michael Watson

Honourable mentions go to: Herol Graham, John Conteh, Miguel Cotto, Julian Jackson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Evander Holyfield.

 

Hagler
Hopkins
Jack Johnson
Pacquiao
Joe Louis

 

I'm not really sure who would round out the top 5. Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are definitely up there. I also like:

Julian Jackson
Manny Pacquiao
James Toney (before 2005)
Terry Norris
Diego Corrales
Sugar Ray Robinson
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Joe Louis

He's had his share of entertaining performances/fights (Ndou, Corrales, Chavez, Gatti, Manfredy, etc..).

Those were just a couple of the dull ones.

 

Yeah, I liked De La Hoya a lot more when he was a full-time fighter rather than a promoter slash part-time fighter.