2007-01-01 15:28:10 · 23 answers · asked by homersherrife 1 in Sports ➔ Boxing
Sugar Ray Robinson (I actually feel he is the best boxer pound for pound ever).
2007-01-02 05:58:15 · answer #1 · answered by DRAGON'S RETURN 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think this question will never be answered. Like someone said above me each weight class has its great ones and each generation has its great pound for pound boxer but i think throughout the history of boxing, there was never a "Greatest" not even Ali. Ali was great but some people say he aint even the greatest. Some people say Marciano was but i don't think he was because alot of the big names he fought (Louis) were at the end of their career and he didn't beat no one good enough to be considered the greatest. Floyd Mayweather could be one of the greatest if he doesent retire after the DLH fight.
2007-01-02 01:17:38 · answer #2 · answered by jdp000109 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rocky Marciano. He beat everybody and never lost. He even beat Joe Louis, who many believe to be the best HW of all time. BTW Ali was a great boxer, but only jock-riding anti-American liberal laymen truely believe he was the greatest boxer of all time. Hell he wasn't even the greatest HW of all time. Even Ken Norton was better than Ali. The only thing Ali ever accomplished was a great upset of George Foreman, and won 2 out of 3 against the highly overrated Joe Frazier. Other than that, he was just a wildly popular celebrity that got there by talkin a whole lotta smack, dodging a very unpopular draft, and joining that racist, terrorist organization, the Nation of Islam. He was a media darling.
2007-01-01 23:40:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A very simple question but you could have easily 10 answers here. I am going to give you 5 of them......Sugar Ray Robinson is always mentioned but how did Carmen Basilio beat him and why did Basilio always give him trouble in the rematches. Joe Frazier is hardly mentioned as one of the best but he beat Ali and always gave him trouble he was a tough, tough man. Marciano, I don't need to say anything except his name. Joe Louis should be every Americans all time great. He beat a German, disproving Hitler's arian dream, and he served his country. He fought at a time when America needed a great champion. Louis tarnished his image a little when he lost to Marciano but he had to come back to make some money.
2007-01-02 07:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by gman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as the un-abashed greatest fan of ali ever i gotta say that sugar ray was the best boxer of all time, but that if they fought ten times they'd each win five - ali always found a way to win, no matter who he faced, if ali is
#1 then sugar ray had to be #2! and vice versa!and, to k-biz...norton better than ali? come on....didja drink some bad egg nog on new year's eve? by all accounts, the 70's was the toughest era for heavyweights, any heavy worth his salt would've had a tough, if not impossible, time defeating foreman, norton, shavers, quarry, and the relentless frazier. and guess who dominated them all? with the only exception being norton, whom he defeated but never quite dominated(but, after all, styles make fights) ali...ali.....ali! and for the record to you and everyone else who falsely accused ali of being a draft dodger, he didn't dodge it, he stayed, stood, and fought it all the way to the supreme court and won the case in a landslide. he fully availed himself of the u.s. legal system, something very few others can claim...and won. go read your history and give the man his credit. he is a citizen to the highest order, a man of the highest caliber, and a boxer who stands head and shoulders above all others. his greatness is manifested in the fact that he re-invigorated the sport and his style has been copied by countless others, to this day. further, even his opponents consider him the greatest and still admire him! a man who is paid tribute by his adversary(-ies) is rare and worthy of praise! he IS the greatest for now and forever...deal with it! here endeth the sermon, and that's the fact, jack~
2007-01-02 04:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by The Dark Knight 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read everyone answers and they all had Merritt but I was surprised not to see the best fighter that I have ever seen no named Ali Roy Jones Jr. he dominated the sport from middle weight to heavy weight champion all ways in shape no one could hit him in the first ten years of his career not one close fight Now there is Floyd Mayweather who is doing the same thing but Roy played a professional Basketball in the afternoon and had a championship fight that night that he won he did so many unorthodox things and he still won he knock out Virgil Hill with a body shot Virgil HILL WAS WORLD champion AT THE TIME AND A very GOOD ONE you don,t knock a world champion out with single body shot he shut Andrew Tony out when Tony was a world champion only when Roy's reflexives started to erode did any one get to him he was as fast as any boxer had great power in both hands could bunch with eather hand was hard to hit great stamina his record speaks for it self he fought everyone they put in front of him the best I ever seen
2007-01-02 11:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rocky Marciano, including Ali..
http://www.rockymarciano.net/home.htm
2007-01-01 23:39:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each weight class has a great boxer, maybe a clear cut greatest in that class. But the greatest has to be Sugar Ray Robinson. He changed weight divisions constantly and won in every one. Pound for pound, no one's got him beat.
2007-01-01 23:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by imd1king 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
REAL CHAMPIONS RETIRE UNDEFEATED,Rocky Marciano's record speaks for its self,no losses,because every champion since have losses against there names even Ali. Also a boxer from Australia named Les Darcy had a mighty good record to, he was from the early 1900
2007-01-02 01:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Spanky the monkey !!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar Ray Robinson
2007-01-01 23:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Middleweight Hagler my Favortive
Heavyweight Mike Tyson
2007-01-02 00:06:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋