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  • #1

    The "Greats of Boxing" Thread.

    Anyone else here a fight fan?

    For me Roy Jones Jr. is king of the ring right now, but here's a couple of lists.

    Pound for Pound All Time

    1. Sugar Ray Robinson
    2. Muhammad Ali
    3. Joe Louis
    4. Rocky Marciano
    5. Jack Johnson

    Honorable mention: Archie Moore, Mike Tyson, Carlos Monzon

    Greatest Fights

    1. Moore vs. Durelle
    2. Ali vs. Frazier III
    3. Walcott vs. Marciano
    4. Ali vs. Williams
    5. Gatti vs Ward I

    Honorable mention: Ali vs. Frazier I; Ali vs. Foreman; Hagler vs. Leonard; Hearns vs. Leonard I; Hagler vs. Hearns; Dempsey vs. Willard; Louis vs. Conn; Tyson vs. Holyfield; Robinson vs. LaMotta.

    Best Knockout

    1. Marciano KO Walcott (a short punch, but Joe is history)
    2. Ali KO Williams
    2. Tyson KO Spinks
    3. Foreman KO Frazier (that one's a massacre)
    4. Johanssen KO Patterson
    5. Hagler KO Hearns.

    Only feebs vote.
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    Begins and ends with The Man.

    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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    • #3
      Originally posted by SlowwHand
      Begins and ends with The Man.

      \

      What have you been smoking, Sloww? Even Ali has admitted that Robinson was better pound for pound than he was.
      Only feebs vote.

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      • #4
        That doesn't mean that Sloww has to agree with him .

        After all, Magic Johnson has said Michael Jordan is the 'best basketball player of all time', but I don't have to believe him .
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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        • #5
          He's only being modest. Showing how gracious he is.
          Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
          "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
          He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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          • #6
            Roy Jones, Jr?

            How can you tell?

            He fights nobody, and don't give me that John Ruiz crap either.

            I watched a fight on NBC last week that lasted 34 seconds.

            Rocky Juarez from Houston knocked a guy out with aleft hook that was a sight to behold, when the guy woke up on the mat, he immediately threw a couple of jabs, thinking he was still fighting.

            ACK!
            Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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            • #7
              I was the greatest welterweight, just so you'll know.
              There. A day when you actually learned something.
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #8
                Slow,

                I'm surprised you haven't put in a good word for Jack Johnson

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                • #9
                  I never saw Jack Johnson; but yes, he was very good.
                  Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                  "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                  He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                  • #10
                    Off topic but to do with boxing.

                    If anybody outside of the U.K gets to see any of our fights look out for David Hayes. He is a cruiser/heavy and while he may never be great, he is our most exciting young talent and has a great pedigree(World Am silver against a good cuban who was about 8? years older and that he dropped in the first round).


                    Oh, sorry, yeah, Archie Moore was a great pound for pound fighter.

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                    • #11
                      Y'all are crazy.

                      The only time anyone ever shut up Ali was Joe Louis, when Ali was still champ the second time. Some benefit got together all the current and former heavyweight champions they could (IIRC, there were 6, including Ali, Frazier and Louis), and Ali was running his mouth as usual about how he was the greatest.

                      Louis just snorted, and then Ali went off about how Louis's career record was inflated by the "Bum of the Month club, so Louis wasn't that great. Louis just looked at motormouth right in the eye and all he said is "You would have been one of the bums." And Ali just deflated.

                      Louis KO'd five world heavyweight champions, he still defended his title sucessfully more times than anyone in history, and even if you knock him for the Bum of the Month club (everyone was a bum compared to Louis), he lost four years of opportunity to defend his title during WW2 military service.

                      Look at the film of the Louis-Schmelling rematch, and tell me there's any boxer ever made who could stand up to Louis,

                      Even on a pound for pound basis, I'd rank Louis #1

                      My list:

                      Joe Louis
                      Rocky Marciano - 49-0, 11 first round KO's, don't like it, too bad.
                      Sugar Ray Robinson
                      Carlos Monzon
                      Sugar Ray Leonard (depending on which weight - five titles in five weight classes still qualifies)
                      Tony Canzoneri
                      Marvelous Marvin Hagler
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                      • #12
                        I knocked Leonard down and knocked Donald Curry out.
                        What's it take to make your "expert's" list?
                        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                        • #13
                          Re: The "Greats of Boxing" Thread.

                          Originally posted by Agathon

                          2. Tyson KO Spinks
                          I would like to see this

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by SlowwHand
                            I knocked Leonard down and knocked Donald Curry out.
                            What's it take to make your "expert's" list?
                            Well, knocking someone down don't cut it.
                            When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."

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                            • #15
                              Rocky Marciano is the best, IMO, followed by Louis and Dempsey.
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