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Best 5 Boxers of Your Time
While I'm coming around to UFC, nothing for me beats the "Sweet Science". At it's highest form, it is just a perfect combination of skill, art, heart, and brutality. I loved it and still do. Remember the good old days when championship tilts were for free on Wide World of Sports.
Thought it would be interesting to hear your list of your 5 favorite/best boxers of your time.
It's so subjective, but my list would be as follows...
1) Muhamad Ali
2) Sugar Ray Leonard
3) Julio Cesar Chavez
4) Larry Holmes
5) Marvin Hagler
Honorable Mention: Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr
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George Foreman
Tommy Morrison
Both Klitschko's
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06-13-2020, 08:20 PM
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Boxers
Ali
Leonard
Duran
Holmes
Hagler
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06-13-2020, 08:22 PM
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1. Mike Tyson
2 Lenox Lewis
3. Holly field
4. Foreman
5. Roy Jones
Honourable mentions riddick bowe, Galata, manny paqia , Klitschko brothers.
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06-13-2020, 08:33 PM
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I actually put Manny Pacquiao first. Just an amazing fighter, by every metric, and won in multiple weight classes.
Ali, Sugar Ray, Boom Boom Mancini, Hagler....
But so many other good fighters. Hearns, Chavez, Tyson for the pure Terror Factor...Hector 'Macho' Camacho was fun to watch.
Some might not put Boom Boom that high up there, but I watched the fight with the Korean, Kim. He was getting whipped on points, but he took his beating and just waited for that one perfect opportunity. The combo he threw that took Kim's life was perfection. The result was horrible, but it showed his heart and skill to stand in there and win. And you look at who he fought, to get the record he had. Lots of amazing talented and winning fighters got beat by him.
https://youtu.be/zkEtAnpwnbA
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Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns
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I was pretty young when Ali was still boxing. I’ll go Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Junior, and fill in the other two later 
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Cannot forget about Butterbean
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Allot of great names already mentioned! Roy Jones Jr in his prime! Def in the top 5
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Other than the rest already mentioned George Chuvalo. Good ol' Canadian boy. 5 time Canadian Heavy Weight Champ and 2 time World Heavy Weight Challenger.
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06-13-2020, 09:38 PM
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All the good ones have been mentioned. Just wanted to add a couple of Alberta boys. Scotty Bulldog Olsen, he had glass wrists though. And Willy The Law Dewit!
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06-13-2020, 09:42 PM
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Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns
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My list as well with Pacquio tied in 4th or 5th. The welter and middleweights were unbelievable for a few years in the early 80's.
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Other than the rest already mentioned George Chuvalo. Good ol' Canadian boy. 5 time Canadian Heavy Weight Champ and 2 time World Heavy Weight Challenger.
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And every fight punching bag. Man could take a lot of punishment.
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And every fight punching bag. Man could take a lot of punishment.
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Got that right.
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06-13-2020, 09:50 PM
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No one has mentioned Smokin Joe Fraiser ?
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What about Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago? Can we count movie heroes?
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06-14-2020, 01:08 AM
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Some names that haven’t been mentioned:
Felix Trinidad
Winky Wright
Bernard Hopkins
Shane Mosely
Riddick Bowe and Frank Bruno weren’t slouches at heavyweight either
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Mike
Roy Jr
Manny
Floyd
Oscar
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1.Larry Holmes(Underrated, still one of the best jabs in the history of the game and huge heart).
2. Aaron Pryor. Look at his bouts with Alexis Arguello.. Brutal fights.
3. Ray Leonard.
4. Marvin Hagler
5.Roberto Duran.
So many more but these stand out to me. This day and age it's more about money than the best fighting the best.
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Read somewhere that PM Socks is an awesome boxer...  
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Two guys beating on each other for profit never interested me. 
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All the good ones have been mentioned. Just wanted to add a couple of Alberta boys. Scotty Bulldog Olsen, he had glass wrists though. And Willy The Law Dewit!
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Eddie "the Cowboy / the Viking Assasin" Wenstob ... he was a light heavy weight but usually fought heavy weights like Tommy Farr, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis ( exhibitions 2x I think for troop entertainment)...
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Another Canadian boxer Donny Lalonde out of Winnipeg fought Sugar Ray Leonard in the mid-80s that was quite a big deal in Winnipeg anyway
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Do yourselves all a favour and watch the Gatti Ward trilogies....
They became best of friends. Gatti’s life was ended much too soon unfortunately.
Jim Lampley gets very emotional when asked what the best round he has ever covered
https://youtu.be/ONFSxKGIS4E
A lot of good names mentioned in this thread for sure. A real great story is Shannon “The Cannon”Briggs. “Let’s Go Champ!”
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Can’t forget Vinny Pazienza and his comeback from a very bad spinal injury. Proved the medical community wrong that he couldn’t do
It...
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Other than the rest already mentioned George Chuvalo. Good ol' Canadian boy. 5 time Canadian Heavy Weight Champ and 2 time World Heavy Weight Challenger.
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Very sad story about losing his sons to drug addiction but truthfully was a plug used to pad records south of the border no different than Edmonton Journeyman Ken Lakusta..
As a country we never developed any decent boxers unlike MMA. Lenox Lewis was 15 when he left Canada to seriously train although he fought as a Canadian in the 88 Olympics.
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Unfortunately boxing nowadays is a mere shadow of its former self.
Tyson Fury has it good as the division isn’t lined up with straight up killers like it used to be. A guy like Andy Riuz would have got flatlined years ago instead of winning a title like he recently did. Anthony Johnson is probably the only real pure throwback boxer currently.. the rest are all awkward.
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Two guys beating on each other for profit never interested me.
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Then why bother commenting? Do you realize that you often do this and it is an infraction called derailing? Stop it.
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Ali vs Fraser the last fight was the most amazing heavy weight fight. Those guys should have quit after that. Almost 40 degrees Fraser would not quit. Interesting fact about Fraser is that he was near blind in one eye cheated the doctors eye exams.
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