Who's your all-time 5 favorite boxers?

GGG
Pac
Foreman

Then I guess Loma and beterbiev to round it off but could probably swap them out for some others too
 
Prince Naseem
Butterbean
Lucia Rijker
Leon Spinks
Buster Douglas
Why Leon? That's an interesting choice, well, they all are, none of them are super great fighters and only Nas could be in the running for greatness and I've never been sold on him being great. You must like the underdog.
 
Why Leon? That's an interesting choice, well, they all are, none of them are super great fighters and only Nas could be in the running for greatness and I've never been sold on him being great. You must like the underdog.
Well, they question wasn't about who were the best boxers in my opinion but who were my favorite boxers, so my preference is not really about underdogs (otherwise i wouldn't love noted can crusher Butterbean).

The thing with Leon Spinks is that i originally knew him for fighting Antonio Inoki. He was also a mainstay in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and had cage matches and so on against Atsushi Onita.



So naturally, when i went back and actually watched his boxing matches when he was younger, i was amazed at how quickly and aggressively he moved even when he ended up getting knocked out.
 
Well, they question wasn't about who were the best boxers in my opinion but who were my favorite boxers, so my preference is not really about underdogs (otherwise i wouldn't love noted can crusher Butterbean).

The thing with Leon Spinks is that i originally knew him for fighting Antonio Inoki. He was also a mainstay in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and had cage matches and so on against Atsushi Onita.



So naturally, when i went back and actually watched his boxing matches when he was younger, i was amazed at how quickly and aggressively he moved even when he ended up getting knocked out.

I know, I wasn't criticizing your choice just wondering why. Spinks was a good fighter, you don't win gold without any talent and on the night he fought Ali he really fought his ass off in a way not too many guys did against Ali. He was a bit small for the era and he wasn't psychologically ready to handle the early title win or the fast life. No telling what could have been had a better run of it. I'm not sure his chin would have ever held out against the upper tier heavyweigts and Ali ushered in the era of big athletic men so Leon would have always been at a disadvantage there.

I've never seen the mma stuff, I should check it out. Leon was a sweet guy who deserved better out of life if not the sport.
 
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