Your top 5 all-time P4P list

It's Whitaker's fight, IMO. He'd have frustrated & plotted Duran out of it in a great scrap.

 

I tend to just exclude everyone prior the the 30s because segregation makes judging guys too difficult. Plus I don't think the sport matured technically until about the mid 30s at the earliest.

 

I always liked Duran to eek out a contentious decision in that one. I don't think it'd be a particularly satisfying bout to watch.

 

I lean towards Duran as well

 

One suspicion I have is that Whitaker may have to win more covincingly on the cards than he can against a fighter of Duran's calibre --- if Whitaker beat Duran (as I expect he would've), he wouldn't likely have done so with much room to spare, which would be a concern.

Any hint of a close decision & the ever-popular Duran would certainly have the rub of the green.

 

i might be in the minority, but i think whitaker would've beaten duran decisively.

 

I agree with you. Every time he faced masterful boxers he lost. We can't forget he lost to the "Bible of Boxing" Wilfred Benitez.

Wait, I don't watch boxing. :giggle:

 

duran would've beaten down tito at 147.

 

Roy Jones lost to the only rangey milk dud headed southpaw he ever fought....

 

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1. Robinson
2. Armstrong
3. Ali
4. Ezzard Charles
5. Duran

6. Whitaker or Leonard (ray)

I wont put a guy like Greb on there because I cant see him and that bothers me... that said, his record speaks for itself, he is obviously a major legend in the history of the sport and deserves to be lauded for his achievements

and my list takes everything into account... its not just who-beats-who... personally, I think Whitaker would beat Duran, but Duran has the more varied breadth of work and a longer run as the 135 pound champ, as well as more than twice as many fights

 

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Greb is another one that makes mY dick itch. Tommy Loughran must have been a super stud. Why should Greb be rated above Tunney?

 

because greb bested him twice out of however many times they fought and tunney was naturally bigger? but honestly, who gives a shit?

 

Once

 

Duran would have been smashed. It would have looked like Yori Boy Campas vs. Tito. Tito would have treated him like a human pinata.

Cupey

 

one of the top 1000 most idiotic things you have ever said

 

I corrected my list to reflect the brain cramp that caused me to neglect to place Ezzard Charles on my top 5

 

charles is lucky he is not around today. can you say cincinnati fodder for the hurricane?

 

Pacquiao
De La Hoya
Roy Jones Jnr
Calzaghe
Mayweather

 

Just out of curiosity.... why has nobody mentioned Calzaghe in their p4p list? opcorn:

 

man, he'd be drowning in the deep end against that hard beltin, sensual chocolate hunk of man

 

he wouldnt be in my top 80

 

What's your reason(s) why not?

 

because I could think of 80 fighters who were better p4p

 

:Giggle:
Fair point.

 

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How much footage on Greb, Langford, and Fitzsimmons have you seen?

 

Not much, but my top 5 was based purely off resume and that's what came up