Your top 5 favorite boxers of all time

1. Muhamed Ali
2. Mike Tyson
3. George Foreman
4. Sinan Samil Sam
5. Klitschko brothers

I like brawlers but still Muhamed Ali is my favorite boxer of all time. If a prime Ali fought Tyson I would have rooted for Ali. Ali is the greatest character ever in boxing. Perhaps it is disputable wether he is the greatest boxer ever or not. That he is the greatest star in boxing history however is undisputable.

PS. Yeah OK, this is the 100th time that a thread like has been started. But still, these kind of threads are the most fun.

 

PPS: My father's stories about Muhammed Ali is probably the reason I am a boxingfan today.

 

Roy Jones Jr.
Diego Corrales
Bernard Hopkins
Sugar Ray Leonard
Evander Holyfield

 

1. Trinidad
2. Tyson
3. Holyfield
4. Cotto
5. Louis
6. Leonard
7. Whitaker
8. Early Camacho
9. Duran
10. Jones

 

My fav boxer of all time was Danny "Little Red" Lopez. Great entertainer. Nearly every fight he had, he would get his butt almost beat in the first round or two, and then come back and win dramatically. Ali is second, followed by Hagler, and Foreman.

 

.... My reaction is in read.

 

1- Erik Morales
2- Felix "Tito" Trinidad
3- Floyd Mayweather Jr.
4- Evander Holyfield
5- Mike Tyson

Honorable Mention: Diego Corrales

 

Cotto needs a couple of wins more to be one of my alltime favorites. He has great potential. I hope he doesn't lose one of his upcoming fights and he lives up to the expectations.

GO COTTO!!!!!

 

evander holyfield
marvelous marvin hagler
marcellus johnson
erik morales
floyd mayweather jr.

 

i didn't read noone's.

no order:

duran
hagler
sanchez
pacquiao
margarito

 

wait...after all the love you long time you had with Jose Luis Castillo...he isn't one of your favorites? :doh::doh:

 

Nigel Benn
Arturo Gatti
Joel Casamayor
Iran Barkley
Thomas Hearns

honorable mentions: Kennedy McKinney, Kevin Kelley, Erik Morales, Saad Muhammad, Antwunn Echols.

 

he's interchangeable w/ pac

 

Did De La Hoya get booted from the top 5, or was he never a member?

 

-Ali
- SRL
-Tyson
- Roy
- JCC

 

get the fucking klitschkos out of this thread

tyson
ali
toney
pacman
hatton would've been in there if he had stayed a boxer and not gone to MMA

 

1. Tyson
2. Roy
3. Ali
4. Pryor
5. Tie between Benitez & Julian Jackson

 

This is true!


I was a kid in Los Angeles in the early 70's and I used to watch his fights with my Aunt (a big sports fan when she was alive.) I remember him always being on his butt early in a fight, come back, then knock the fool out he was fighting...

Always fun to watch...

Good Call!

 

Ali
Lennox
Klitschko
Klitschko
Hamed

and then many others

 

For the Record, it's hard to just pick five...


Pernell Whittaker...

Roy Jones Jr...

Mike Tyson...

Evander Holyfield...

Mark Breland...

(the rest of the list...)

Roberto Duran

Ray Lenoard

Tommy Hearns

Marvin Hagler

Julio Cesar Chavez

Oscar De La Hoya

 

Larry Holmes
Mark Johnson
Kostya Tszyu
Julian Jackson
Erik Morales

 

Favourites to watch

Roberto Duran
Niccolino Loche
James Toney
Salvador Sanchez
Julio Cesar Chavez
Pernel Whitaker
Mike McCallum
Thomas Hearns
Joe Louis
Alexis Arguello

I'll always have a soft spot for Iron Mike as well.:clap:

 

fucking Lewis and Wvlad in the top 5? :shit:

 

dsimon writes:

As of today: It could change tomorrow.

Sweet Pea
Toney
Holmes
Hopkins
Michael Moore

 

Michael Moore?!?:shit:

 

I made the list based on whose fights I rewatch the most. Their fights are usually great entertainment (Wlad-Sultan and Lewis-Tua being obvious exceptions). I like to watch fights where the superior fighter systematically breaks down the opponents resistance or outthinks him. That is why I also like Hopkins' fights (rewatched Hops-Tarver again today )

 

His two-hour beatings of George W. Bush are pretty entertaining to me:clap:

 

Ugotabe Kidding :shit:

 

dsimon writes:

As a cruiser he was murder and damn near technically perfect. He beat your bitch Holly into submission the first fight BTW::.... Unlike Holly Michael could not carry Heavy weight laurels:doh: :dunno:.... I actually think it was more psychological than anything.

What many people don't know is that As Roger Mayweather often says "Michigan is a boxing mecca." And while we had stick figures with obsene power (Hearns) and other incredible fighters from Michigan, Moore was looked upon in the gym as a kind of Zarathustra (superman) as a middle/cruiser.

BTW Honorable mention for my list: Tim Witherspoon. Philly is another great boxing town that makes em real good in the ring.::