Your TWO favourite fighters of all time...???

[GazOC]

Following on from Dunkys thread. Who are your favourite fighters ever?

Mine are Ray Leonard and Ali. I've always liked that ability to box intelligently on the retreat but be able to plant the feet and tee off when the need arose.

So you can see what I like in Ricky Hatton!!!:roll:;)

Yours....?

[Shev]

I don't really have favourite all time fighters, but historically I like Joe Louis and currently a fighter I've followed from the beginning is Cotto so he may end up being one.

[goldenboy]

Abit cliche but Ali is the main man! Erik Morales being my very close number two!

[TIGEREDGE]

tyson and dlh

[chesh]

Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran - both poetry in motion (in different ways) in their primes.

Honourable mention: MAB (and many others!)

[Bill Butcher]

MUHAMMAD ALI & ERIK MORALES

Different styles & personalities but both were 100% entertainment aswell as being very skillfull, both had tremendous heart & that invaluable iron chin.

Both always fought the best around, EVEN when they were a shell of themselves later on in their careers.

Ali was more vocal but both always told it like it was regardless of what the media etc. thought about it.

At their peak.... few were more reliable to beat the best & do it well.

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[Bill Butcher]

Abit cliche but Ali is the main man! Erik Morales being my very close number two!

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Just noticed your post, thats exactly how I have things.

Hard to believe that Erik doesnt make everybody`s list, they must not have seen him in his prime (or even recently, he`s still 100% warrior even if the skills have faded.)

Ps. I noticed your from Dublin, Ireland.... good shit.... we more than likely support the same footie team too with me being from Glasgow, Scotland.

Mon the hoops.

[BigEars]

Erik Morales would be my favourite ever fighter, after that.........possibly the man in my avatar it's hard to say really .

[Smith]

Carlos Monzon - Scarily effective, he'd grind you down and there was nothing you could do about it. Moderately slow but methodical & H2H best ever middleweight for me, and tenth place in my pound for pound list. He was also a cool motherfucker, despite the wife killing and all that minor stuff;).

Nigel Benn - Power, brute strength, underrated boxing ability, amazing heart, good chin, generally a fighter no one in history would prefer to face in the ring in his prime. Legend.

Honorouble mentions - Alexis Arguello, Ken Buchanan, Benny Lynch, Duilio Loi, Roy Jones Junior, Nassem Hamed, Jose Napoles, David Haye.

[Rebel-INS]

Thomas Hearns is my definite all time number one. I find it hard to name just one other though.

[BamBam]

Erik Morales would be my favourite ever fighter, after that.........possibly the man in my avatar it's hard to say really .

I hope you'll be ringside on Saturday BigEars. I got the Marchiano-Mares fight on DVD. MArchiano looks a tough fucker and a come forward, head in your chest, kind of fighter. Going to be a tough test

As for the favourite 2, I'm going Marciano and then Dunne. Nothing to do with skills. Just a gut feeling of who I root for.
I love Marciano for his flaws, lack of skills but ability to get the job done. The ability to dig himself out of holes and just what I have learned of him having read about him etc...

Dunne is my main man. I'm 26 and I've still been following Bernard for 12 years. I remember watching him in the Am's here. Then charting his progress (including the horrible news when he had the faulty MRI) in America. Then my delight when he came home and brought Pro Boxing (along with Peters it must be said) back to Ireland.

I think lads in England, Scotland, Wales etc.. take it for granted that they have pro boxing on a regular (semi-regular basis) Pro boxing was dead for a decade here before Dunne woke everyone up to the fight game

[Dunky McCafferty]

Favourite all time fighters?

Now I know how tough it is, having the question flipped back at me!

So many to choose from... Marciano, Mayweather, Pacquiao, or even Micky Ward....

But on a personal level it was

Scotty Harrison... If he had kept the heid(as the old scottish saying goes) he could have been a star, but he didnt. Still though, I think he had the tools to be the greatest scottish fighter of all time.

Bernard Hopkins... I always adored him, loved the way he could dismantle any fighter, & loved his story, rags to riches at its best. Still hurts me that Calzaghe beat a 43 year old version, when Joe would have been destroyed if he had fought Bernard anytime between Bernard being 40 and under. when a 43 year old version floored, hurt & got robbed aginst Calzaghe, you KNOW a BHop in his late 30's would have whooped him.
I just thought I would add this bit as I didnt want people to read about how BHop was so great here in my eyes, & sit back smugly saying to themselves "& you know wht Dunk? Joe beat him."
You KNOW the truth Calzaghe fans. Joe beat a shell of the man. & its even debatable if he did actually beat BHop.

Anyway, I dont want to hijack the thread, so wont be replying if anyone questions me. I just had to say what had to be said, cos I HATE the thought of any Calzaghe fan daring to think he got the last laugh on BHop or me.

Anyway, back to the topic. & remember, I aint arguing the point.

Its Scotty & Hopkins for me.

[themacallan]

Reading this thread and the other one about current boxers made me realise how much i don't like (not in a dislike way) boxing, where I don't really have favourites, couldn't give a shit about boxing sometimes and wouldn't cross the road to see most professional fighters.

[Dunky McCafferty]

Reading this thread and the other one about current boxers made me realise how much i don't like (not in a dislike way) boxing, where I don't really have favourites, couldn't give a shit about boxing sometimes and wouldn't cross the road to see most professional fighters.

Two words for you Macdaddy- 'Craig McEwan'

amazing amateur, unbeaten pro prospect trained by Freddie Roach, fights in America, wore a kilt in one of his earlier fights, wore a Scotland top in his last fight that Ishy has uploaded here on another thread, if that isnt enough to stoke the boxing fires inside you then dont say I didnt try my best.

[Betty Swollocks]

James Toney
Roberto Duran

honourable mentions - Whitaker, Morales, Archie Moore.

[D-MAC]

Ray Robinson

Roberto Duran

Two contrasting styles, but in relation to boxing I like a bit of everything.

[Strike]

Ray Robinson and Lennox Lewis.

As a kid my favourites were Marciano and Benn. Benn is still very close to being in my top two. I was a big Hamed fan but then he became a genuine cunt rather than just pantomine.

[ishy]

Mine have to be Thomas Hearns and Pernell Whitaker.

[TFFP]

Very tough, many come to mind, but my first thoughts were Calzaghe + Hamed, so I'll go with that.

[warrior85]

ricky hatton & arturo gatti

[Max Molyneux]

Not been a fan long enough to get many old timer fights so easy so I'd say Calzaghe and Lewis.

[Bill Butcher]

Message to Dunkey McCafferty (even tho he says he wont respond, I know he`ll read it)

My 2 fav boxers of recent times are Morales & Calzaghe.

I think prime JC beats prime Hopkins even easier than their recent fight, reason being that Joe is at his best vs more attacking fighters & B-hop never refined his defence - the defence that caused Joe some probs - to the level it is now until age forced him to do so because he can no longer sustain a frantic pace.
Prime Calzaghe was faster than now with no less power or stamina & Hopkins has become so negative a boxer that he never even went for the kill after flooring JC, he got what he deserved for trying to stop a fight happening rather than make a fight happen... the verdict was correct IMO. Most agree.

As for Scott Harrison, my boy Morales would fuck him up prime v prime & it wouldnt be that close a fight.
Nothing against Scott (inside the ring), he was a good fighter but Erik was on another level to him IMHO.

Cheers.

[alfonso]

Probably the same two as a lot of people my age (29)

Nigel Benn for getting me into boxing and Joe Calzaghe for entertaining me. of course Nas is close!

[LeedsLad]

Its nice to see that alot of people picked Erik Morales. He always came to fight and never ducked a challenge, El Terrible is the man. For my second there's loads; Roy Jones, Mike Tyson, Felix Trinidad, Joe Calzaghe, Naseem Hamed and plenty more;)