Who is your favorite boxer that EVER lived!?!?

Question

we all know dat boxing has been round for years!, but questions to all u guys out there, who is your favorite boxer dat ever lived from ANY weight class!!!!????

Answer 1

Here's my list of fighters past and present I'd pay to watch, in no particular order:

Sugar Ray Robinson
Diego Corrales
Arturo Gatti
Manny Pacquiao
George Foreman
Juan Diaz
Miguel Cotto
Floyd Mayweather
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Ray Mancini
Felix Trinidad
Roy Jones
Hector Camacho

Answer 2

My favorite boxers that ever lived has to be Julio Cesar Chavez and Mike Tyson,I cant say that it was ali or marciano or even duran because i was not alive to live the moment n was to young for duran n other greats,But Chavez was reight around when i started to watch boxing n so was tyson,Who can denie thses legends there place in history,Tyson was a freakn rush to watch and what a record to go 80+fights without losing once And the way he fought them was no joke he was blood heart n glory a real warrioir he gave people their moneys worth he didnt just go in there to win and place smack u first like mayweather jr,altho i do acknoledge that mayweather like him or not is among the greats also,Tyson and Chavez for personal and just real REASONS

Answer 3

If I had to pick one, it's Sugar Ray Leonard. 3 absolute breath-taking victories against LONG odds. The first being against that Cuban in 76. Then the greatest non-heavyweight fight ever against Hearns in 81. Then the spectacular performance against Hagler. And it's hard to believe, but for quite a while, Ray Leonard was considered a protected, pretty-boy media creation that would fold against world class opposition. It also seemed the Ray knew how to hold the audience captive the same way a great actor does, had a good sense of drama. He seemed to know the right times to play with Hagler without overdoing it or doing it at the wrong time.

I think I'd have been a big fan of Gene Tunney, as he seemed to usher in the modern era of the scientific boxer.

Answer 4

My Top 10 favorites:

1 Sugar Ray Robinson - greatest pound-for-pound of all time.
2 Marvin Hagler - greatest middleweight of the last 4 decades and 2nd all time after Robinson. He was robbed against pitty-pat Leonard.
3 Evander Holyfield - huge heart, great warrior, never-say-die
4 Joe Louis - greatest heavyweight championship record ever, although not in my opinion the greatest heavyweight ever. True gentleman.
5 George Foreman - greatest heavyweight puncher of all time who was actually a better overall fighter in his 2nd "incarnation."
6 Roberto Duran - greatest lightweight of all time & despite the "no mas" anomaly, a great warrior.
7 Tommy Hearns - most devastating welterweight puncher of all time & pretty darn tough all the way up to light heavy.
8 Rocky Marciano - made the most of his limited skills, although there were in my opinion a few guys he didn't fight who could've beaten him - Sonny Liston for one.
9 Archie Moore - maybe the greatest light heavy ever (with competition from Bob Foster) - who didn't win title until he was 39 because everyone avoided him. Greatest "old fighter" of all time, with Foreman a close 2nd.
10 Muhammad Ali - Probably the smartest heavyweight of all time and as a young heavy, the fastest of all time. I rank him down a little bit because I think he got too many breaks - like not being penalized for holding behind the neck. He also got a couple gift wins - against Jimmy Young & Ken Norton.

Honorable mention - Mickey Ward - not the most skilled, but gave it his all (see Holyfield) and "Indian" Yaqui Lopez, a light heavy in the 70s & 80s who fought great wars against the best of that era but came up just short & never won title. Also a great warrior, great heart.

Answer 5

Tough Question....because it's hard to put fighters that I respect enormously but never saw ( like Jim Jefferies, Sam Langford, Harry Greb, etc. ) in the same category with fighters that I have seen over the years ??-----Having said that----my favorite boxer that I ever saw was Sugar Ray Robinson.....

Answer 6

My favorite of all time is "The Brockton Blockbuster" Rocky Marciano the man who refused to lose. Lou Duva was said of Rocky that if you put all the heavyweight champs in a room and had it out, the Rock would have been the last man out. That's how tough he was. 49-0-0- 43

Answer 7

Roberto Duran in his prime.

Answer 8

For me its hard to differentiate the boxers from their politics. For example, I used to love Jim Jeffries, until recently I found out that he was quoted as saying that the reason he came out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson was to prove that "Any white man is superior to all black men". That in and of itself makes my stomach turn, regardless of the record.

For quality and integrity, I would say Muhammad Ali. Say what you will about being a draft dodger and such...he lost his prime boxing years for it, and risked being jailed. Primarily because of his non-war beliefs, and that his should be extended the same rights he would be fighting for. Admirable, very.

So far as excitement, yeah I would agree that would be Sugar Ray Leonard. No one surpassed him in being humble, though being gifted with so much. And despite his being fast, and physically gifted, his best fights were when his gifts didnt help. He had heart for miles.

Best gifted? Bar none Sugar Ray Robinson. Speed, power, natural ability..he had everything you could ask for. He neither qualified as a boxer or a fighter, he was both.

This one I say grudgingly. Best work ethic and polished skills? Floyd Mayweather. Floyd may be fast, but his abilities are polished..not gifts. Everything that he does faster and more effortlessly than most fighters is because he works harder than 99 percent of almost all fighters. He lives to train, the repetiveness of doing something over and over again until its second nature doesnt bother him. He just is...and I say that grudgingly because I cant stand him as a person. Somewhat like the Jim Jeffries

Answer 9

muhammad ali he is truly the greatest boxer and showman there was never a dull moment before a figth or during a figth he is the champ his figths with joe fraizer are tribute to his greatness after being gone from the ring for almost four years he came back and fought a tremendous figth only to lose but he never gave up he kept figthing and wining he had something a lot of fighter dont have the will to win and he fougth in a division loaded with talent he is the king of all time

Answer 10

Sugar Ray Robinson and Marvin Hagler.