Thread: If you could create your own roster...

Who would you have, you have let's say 48 slots to fill. What weight classes would you have and who would you have in the game?

Heavyweight
1. Ali
2. Frazier
3. Foreman
4. Lewis
5. Tyson
6. Holyfield
7. Bowe
8. Holmes

Light Heavy
1. RJJ
2. Holyfield
3. Toney
4. Hopkins
5. Pavlik
6. Calzaghe
7. Wright
8. Foster

Middleweight
1. Hagler
2. Leonard
3. Hearns
4. Hopkins
5. RJJ
6. Pavlik
7. Wright
8. Taylor

Welterweight
1. Robinson
2. Leonard
3. Hearns
4. Duran
5. Mosley
6. Cotto
7. De la Hoya
8. Mayweather Jr.

Lightweight
1. Duran
2. JC Chavez
3. Mayweather Jr.
4. Pacquiao
5. Mosley
6. De la Hoya
7. Whittaker
8. Casamayor

Featherweight
1. Pacquiao
2. Salvador Sanchez
3. Azumah Nelson
4. Morales
5. MAB
6. JMM
7. Jorge Paez
8. Naseem Hamed

If I had a couple more fighters I would have added more current or recent fighters

good list man. I like it. I"m gonna have to come up with one later and post it.

At first I thought it would be easy but it got really hard because I didn't just want to include 1 fighter here and there but more like 3-4 fighters here and there because of the rivalries and hypothetical match ups I want to create.

Obviously different fighters go over to different divisions, so I'm only gonna do a fighter once, although obviously in the game they could fight in different ones (e.g. RJJ, PBF, Duran). I'm gonna go with the divisions you've got, plus 4 more in lower weights.

Heavyweight
1. Ali
2. Frazier
3. Foreman
4. Lewis
5. Tyson
6. Holyfield
7. Bowe
8. Holmes

Light Heavy
1. RJJ
2. Adamek
3. Toney
4. Hopkins
5. Dawson
6. Calzaghe
7. Kessler
8. Andrade

Middleweight
1. Hagler
2. Hearns
3. Lamotta
4. Monzon
5. Abraham
6. Pavlik
7. Wright
8. Taylor

Welterweight
1. Robinson
2. Leonard
3. Margarito
4. Trinidad
5. Paul Williams
6. Cotto
7. De la Hoya
8. Berto

Lightweight
1. Mayweather Jr.
2. JC Chavez
3. Arguello
4. Pacquiao
5. Mosley
6. Duran
7. Whittaker
8. Casamayor

Featherweight
1. Salvador Sanchez
2. Azumah Nelson
3. Morales
4. MAB
5. Juan Manuel Marquez
6. Naseem Hamed

Bantamweight/Lower

1. Vazquez
2. Rafa Marquez
3. Juanma
4. Darchinyan
5. Calderon
6. Lopez

That is a lot tougher than you'd think. Leaving out the Klitschkos & Haye bothered me as did a load of other fighters.

Heavyweights
1. Ali
2. Frazier
3. Foreman
4. Tyson
5. Marciano
6. Dempsey
7. Wlad Klitschko
8. Lewis
9. Vit. Klitschko
10. Arreola

Light Heavyweight
1. Jones Jr.
2. Haye
3. Dawson
4. Adamek
5. Holyfield
6. Tunney (Technically a Heavyweight, but he weighed about 175 for his career so may as well toss him in as a Light Heavyweight
7. Calzaghe
8. Toney
9. Bute

Middleweight
1. Hagler
2. Leonard
3. Hearns
4. Robinson
5. Pavlik
6. Abraham
7. Wright
8. Williams
9. Sturm
10. Taylor

Welterweight
1. Hatton
2. Cotto
3. Margarito
4. Mosley
5. Whitaker
6. De La Hoya
7. Berto
8. Trinidad
9. Clottley
10. Urango

Lightweight
1. Duran
2. Mayweather Jr.
3. Pacquiao
4. Diaz
5. Valero
6. Marquez
7. Casamayor
8. Gamboa
9. Barrera

Well both of you went slightly over 48 fighters, but you can now fully understand how difficult it is for the guys who make the game to get a roster that suits boxing fans in general.

LA, Gene Tunney was one of the greatest light heavyweights(and maybe P4P fighters) of all-time so you are perfectly correct in placing him there. He only fought 3 fights at heavyweight 2 vs Dempsey and 1 defense vs Tom Heeney and then he retired with a 80(48 KO)-1 record.

If I didn't fill the slots with fighters I put in multiple divisions I would have put in:

Heavyweight
1. Wladimir Klitschko

Light heavy
1. Tomaz Ademek
2. Vassily Jirov
3. Dwight Muhammad Qawi
4. David Haye
5. Michael Spinks

Middleweight
1. Nigel Benn
2. Chris Eubank
3. Arthur Abraham
4. John Duddy

Welterweight
1. Andre Berto
2. Aaron Pryor
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Kostya Tszyu

Lightweight
1. Alexis Arguello