BOXING FANS!! Who's your favorite boxer?

[Estrella]

Where's Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather?? They are popular boxers.

My personal faves are Oscar De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas and Felix "Tito" Trinidad!!!

[kaley]

Rocky Marciano baby...49-0!

[jmill82]

kaley wrote:

Rocky Marciano baby...49-0!

Yeah, he was tough as hell!

[Traveller1234]

Where are the Russians. The best boxers ever

[CHOCOLATE FLAVOR]

Where's Floyd Mayweather? My old school favorites are :Sugar Ray Leonard,Marvin Marvelous Hagler,Thomas Hearns,Earnie Shavers,Ali,and Ron Lyle.My favorite boxers of today are:Floyd Mayweather,Fernando Vargas,Ricardo Mayorga,and Migel Cotto.

[CHOCOLATE FLAVOR]

kaley wrote:

Rocky Marciano baby...49-0!

But,do you know why he's overlooked and never talked about when speaking of all time greats? He fought old fighters who were pass their primes.He was another ,Terry Norris.He had Ko power, a good right hook,and heart,but we will never really know how good he really was, because he fought guys who were pass their primes and well on their way out.

[CHOCOLATE FLAVOR]

Traveller1234 wrote:

Where are the Russians. The best boxers ever

Like who? They didn't contribute much to the sport of boxing.White and especially black americans have made boxing what it is today.Not some russian bums who didn't have any craft.

[jmill82]

CHOCOLATE FLAVOR wrote:

<quoted text>Like who? They didn't contribute much to the sport of boxing.White and especially black americans have made boxing what it is today.Not some russian bums who didn't have any craft.

LOL@Russian bums

[Satan Slayin Mike]

Estrella wrote:

Where's Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather?? They are popular boxers.
My personal faves are Oscar De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas and Felix "Tito" Trinidad!!!

Damn, if you're talking TRUE SCRAPPERS, then where's Joe Louis at !?

Good list but it has to be reviewed.

I ain't mad at cha though.

If Cus D'Amato was still around, Mike Tyson would DEFINITELY be the best fighter, EVER.
D'Amato was the ONLY person that knew him and Tyson called him Daddy..........
My boy went out of control after he died.

That's telling you something right there and Don King didn't make his life/mind any better. Don King milked him for hundreds of millions of dollars.

That list should've had some old school Welterweight scrappers like Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler.

Those fighters truly reprensented the sport.

[jmill82]

Joe Louis & Sugar Ray Robinson are both honorable mentions.

[Satan Slayin Mike]

CHOCOLATE FLAVOR wrote:

<quoted text>Like who? They didn't contribute much to the sport of boxing.White and especially black americans have made boxing what it is today.Not some russian bums who didn't have any craft.

You know you're hometown GOT HANDS NATURALLY.

That's what it is.

You know Philly and THE BURGH represents the scrap and brawl game..........

You know this.

[Two White Crows]

Estrella wrote:

Where's Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather?? They are popular boxers.
My personal faves are Oscar De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas and Felix "Tito" Trinidad!!!

1. Julio Cesar Chavez...all-time best
2. Roberto Duran....tied for all time best
3. Kelly Pavlik....hardest hitting middleweight
4. Miguel Cotto...hardest hitting welterweight
5. Alexis Arguello...best lightweight
6. Ray Mancini...most gutz
7. George Foreman...greatest heavyweight of all time
8. Oscar De La Hoya...hardest hitting left hooker
9. Rocky Marciano...pfp hardest hitter of all time
10.Joe Calzaghe....undefeated best boxer

Past and present that is!

[CHOCOLATE FLAVOR]

Satan Slayin Mike wrote:

<quoted text>
You know you're hometown GOT HANDS NATURALLY.
That's what it is.
You know Philly and THE BURGH represents the scrap and brawl game..........
You know this.

PA muthafuckahs!

[Estrella]

Two White Crows wrote:

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1. Julio Cesar Chavez...all-time best
2. Roberto Duran....tied for all time best
3. Kelly Pavlik....hardest hitting middleweight
4. Miguel Cotto...hardest hitting welterweight
5. Alexis Arguello...best lightweight
6. Ray Mancini...most gutz
7. George Foreman...greatest heavyweight of all time
8. Oscar De La Hoya...hardest hitting left hooker
9. Rocky Marciano...pfp hardest hitter of all time
10.Joe Calzaghe....undefeated best boxer
Past and present that is!

I didn't say that FM and RJjr were the best of the best.... I just wondered why they weren't included on the list. Afterall, the thread is entitled "favorite boxer".

[jmill82]

Sonny Liston was a powerhouse as well.

[kaley]

CHOCOLATE FLAVOR wrote:

<quoted text>But,do you know why he's overlooked and never talked about when speaking of all time greats? He fought old fighters who were pass their primes.He was another ,Terry Norris.He had Ko power, a good right hook,and heart,but we will never really know how good he really was, because he fought guys who were pass their primes and well on their way out.

You're right, a lot of the good fighters he took on like Louis were out of their prime by this time. But he wasn't to young when he started either and he was also very small, prime or no prime, I will give him credit for having mad skills to take on those experienced and great fighters. He was the major underdog of his time. But I think a lot of the older fighters get overlooked until someone makes a movie about them. Boxers weren't so Hollywood awhile back so not as many people knew about them. I am a little upset though that he turned down 2 million to fight Ali, I don't know, I think Ali might have took that one.

[kaley]

jmill82 wrote:

Sonny Liston was a powerhouse as well.

There's one I forgot, learned how to fight in jail...right?

[Two White Crows]

Estrella wrote:

<quoted text>
I didn't say that FM and RJjr were the best of the best.... I just wondered why they weren't included on the list. Afterall, the thread is entitled "favorite boxer".

Do ya think Miguel Cotto will ever fight Floyd Mayweather?

I think floyd may have announced his retirement?

RJ.jr is supposed to fight Joe Calzaghe sometime this fall.

[jmill82]

kaley wrote:

<quoted text>There's one I forgot, learned how to fight in jail...right?

Yep, & got dropped by Ali twice :)

[Crusher]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

FEROCIOUS