My heart says Sugar Ray Leneard but I could be wrong . Enlighten me!!
2007-02-26 05:07:21 · 13 answers · asked by boxpro86 2 in Sports ➔ Boxing
Leonard is a pretty good choice but the other Sugar would have to be my choice....No, not Shane Mosley, but Ray Robinson. Floyd Mayweather and even Bernard Hopkins could definitely be thrown into the conversation as well...
2007-02-26 06:17:53 · answer #1 · answered by -A- 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your wrong, it's the other Sugar Ray. Sugar Ray Robinson's the only fighter in the history of boxing to fight tougher competition that Muhammad Ali. Robinson's resume of champions he defeated reads the the wall in the boxing hall of fame in Canasota.
Basalio, Graziano, Olson, Lamotta, Kid Gavilin, just off the top of my head and at least three or four more hall of famers that slipped my mind. A six time middleweight champion, welterweight champ, and a gifted talent. No knock on the rest of boxings greats, but there's only one pound for pound best.
Ray Robinson.
2007-02-26 16:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest pound for pound fighter to ever live according to most boxing historians and people who were fans of the sport in that time.
2007-02-26 05:24:14 · answer #3 · answered by StanleyCupNJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are 2/3 right.. The best ever was Sugar Ray Robinson. Fast, smart, a puncher, lasted for years and years... The original that many have copied. Even Clay/Ali copied Sugar Ray. Leonard took his nickname cuz he wanted to be like him....
2007-02-26 06:59:11 · answer #4 · answered by Chef dad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Greb, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Willie Pep, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong would be the top pound for pound best boxers in boxing history and in no particular order. This question gets asked alot here and instead of just naming Ali or Robinson I am going to give you 7. Any seven of these guys have qualities that could make them the best pound for pound boxer in history. Marciano was probably the strongest puncher, Ali probably the overall fastest, and Greb was probably willing to take more punishment than any of them and still be able to effectively pound on the opponent. They all were great.
2007-02-26 06:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by gman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In his prime, Ali. Think about it. Who in the world could have beaten him? It has nothing to do with weight classes. We are talking about the greatest fighter of all time. If you lined up all the best fighters in the world during Ali's prime years, there was not one fighter that could have beaten him.
2007-02-26 08:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by Yankee Dude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rocky Marciano - hands down. Especially considering he came from an era when fighters didn't have months and months to prepare for fights and he wasn't even brought up to be a boxer - he apparently started boxing to impress his g/f
2007-02-26 06:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by shabbs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar Ray ROBINSON. C'mon man...everyone knows this, yet still somebody asks this question at least once a week.
It's like asking "Hey, does anyone know what 1 + 1 equals?"
2007-02-26 05:22:56 · answer #8 · answered by JC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know, I have seen many guys who seemed invincible like Roy Jones at one point who had my vote crack in recent years, I really want to say Floyd if he wins this fight because that will be like 6 divisons he has won titles at
2007-02-26 11:52:50 · answer #9 · answered by Legal Eagle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rocky marciano, my friend. he was 48-o with 43 knockouts. he probably had five more good years but he died in a plane wreck. he was the original italian stallion. also Tyson in his prime was a hard man to bet against.
2007-02-26 05:19:29 · answer #10 · answered by chris j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋