Originally Posted by
g3org3
Top 10 all time is probably
1. Floyd mayweather
2. Marvin hagler
3. Joe Louis
4. Ray Robinson
5. Rocky Marciano
6. Larry Holmes
7. George Forman
8. Joe calzaghe
9. Lenox Lewis
10. Bernard Hopkins
I know my top list is probably different to a lot but I'm pretty harsh on fighters. I would love to add Roy Jones, Tyson etc but if fighters chose to fight past there prime they need to take the good with the bad.
So you punish fighters when they are past their prime...
Mayweather arguably 'peaked' a decade ago; and fought this year.
Hagler may of peaked in the late 70s, and no matter what was never quite so Marvelous post Sibson, yet fought on until 1987.
Louis peaked in the late 30s and fought on into the 50s.
Robinson peaked in the 40s and fought on onto the 60s.
Holmes possibly peaked in the Norton fight, certainly was not the same post Cooney and yet in 82 he was only a third of the way through his career (in time).
Foreman peaked in 73 yet was still fighting nearly 25 years later!
Hopkins peaked in the later part of the 20th century and certainly was never quite the same post Trinidad, yet he is still active a decade and a half later...
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