Your opinion on best boxers ever? Top 5

[tshadowchaser]

my list looks like this but necessarily in this order
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammed Ali
Rocky Marciano
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
tyson

I know I have 6 not 5 listed

 

[redfang]

I would have to put Tyson in my list, just because I always really enjoyed watching his fights. I recently watched several of fights on espn classic. I had forgotten how good he was when he was young. He was incredibly fast, this was probably a bigger asset than his pure strength, which was tremendous. He was always much shorter than his opponents, with a much shorter reach, but it never mattered (until his trainer died of course and his discipline and training went down the tubes with his personal life.), he was a bull, each fist was one of the horns.

So, love fest for a sociopathic, ear-biting, sex offender over, here's my list (in no real order):

Tyson
Ali
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Julio Cesar Chavez

I'm going to throw in a sixth, Jake LaMotta, as an honorary, after all I've only seen about two of his fights on espnclassics, but because ya gotta love Raging Bull with Deniro as LaMotta.

 

[Jutt-]

Mike Tyson easily was one of the best in his peak.
Lennox Lewis has to be up there to.
Steve Collins is another Middlewieght legend IMO.
Oscar De La Hoya.
Muhammed Ali - save the best till last

 

[Cabalcincotiros]

1) Henry Armstrong.
2) Ray Leonard.
3) Jack Dempsey.
4) Rocky Marciano.
5) Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali).

 

[mrhnau]

Lennox Lewis has to be up there to.

Lewis was good, but GOSH was he boring to watch.... Most of the fights I watched just about put me to sleep. He had a few action fights, but most went like this:

jab jab clinch... jab jab clinch.... jab jab clinch... throw an occassional hook in there... jab jab clinch...

If they guy did not have 18 feet long arms, he would not have been nearly as good. I would have loved to see him box someone much larger than himself w/ a decent amount of skill, though I admit, those guys are hard to find these days...

 

[14 Kempo]

Well, whether or not they were the best, the ones I tuned into watch were ...

- Muhammad Ali
Simply revolutionized the sport and had quite a lot of competition during this era.
- Mike Tyson
Like it or not, devastating in the early years. Lost it with the passing of Cus and signing with King

Then this weight class during the time, the most competetive I remember while I watched boxing ...
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- Marvin Hagler
- Roberto Duran
- Thomas Hearns

 

[IcemanSK]

Off the top of my head. In no particular order.

Harry Greb
Marvin Hagler
Muhhamed Ali
Sugar Ray Roboinson
Julio Ceasar Chavez

Each can argued for or against. If I thought about it, I'd add or subtract someone.

 

[Tong Po]

In no particular order and limiting myself to 5

Joe Louis
Muhammad Ali
Rocky Marciano
Sugar Ray Robinson
George Foreman

 

[kidswarrior]

Rocky Marciano
Clay/Ali (although I could have done without the mouth :ultracool)
Sugar Ray
Jack Dempsey
Gene LeBell--hey, it's my list, and have you seen his fight with Milo Savage?

 

[MA-Caver]

Rocky Balboa
Apollo Creed
Clubber Lang
Eddie 'Kid Natural' Scanlon
Walter Gulick
Sean Thornton

Oh... you meant real life fighters... well then...uh, I'll go with the ESPN list. :idunno:

 

[K831]

Wow, tough. This is the first five;

Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Roberto Duran
Rocky Marciano
Willie Pep

Second Group:

Joe Louis
Benny Leonard
Henry Armstrong
Mike Tyson
Jack Dempsey
George Foreman
And of course James J Braddock

 

[Skip Cooper]

It seems that one's opinion about who is the best top fighters depends on the era they were watching them in...

My favorites in no certain order:

Roy Jones Jr.
Mickey Ward
Oscar de la Hoya
Wladimir Klitschko
Bernard Hopkins

Up and coming fighters that I like:

Alfonso Gomez
Kermit Cintron
Miguel Cotto
Paul Williams
Rocky Juarez

 

[LegLockGuy]

Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Bernard Hopkins
Shannon Briggs
and Arturo Gatti

Hell, Mike Tyson is even a hero of mine, he's one of the reasons that got me into fighting.

 

[Karatedrifter7]

Jewish boxers from the 30's
Max Baer
Al "The Bronx Beauty" Singer
Ben Jeby
Barney Ross
Battling Levinsky
Those were the best.

 

[warxjournal]

rocky balboa x5

 

[searcher]

Marciano-I learned to destroy an opponents are BEFORE you knock them out.
Dempsy-The guy looked like a felon.
Foreman-In his prime, he was a beast.
Holyfield-A cruiserweight that became a heavyweight champ.

Buster Douglas-not that he is one of the greatest, but he was the first to prove that Tyson was not invincible.

 

[Kosho Gakkusei]

This is my list:

1. Rocky Balboa
2. Apollo Creed
3. Clubber Lang
4. Ivan Drago
5. Tommy Gunn

I have only seen a limited amount of boxers fight -less than 30% of ESPN's list so I'm not qualified to say who was the best ever.

Ali was incredible to watch so quick and slick.
I've seen a little bit of Marciano and he was tough.
Frazier had an amazing left hook.
Tyson was terrifying back in the day but you were disappointed if you bought the PPV because it was over so quick.

_Don Flatt