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
Re: If you could create your own roster...
good list man. I like it. I"m gonna have to come up with one later and post it.
Re: If you could create your own roster...
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.
Re: If you could create your own roster...
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.
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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
Re: If you could create your own roster...
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
Re: If you could create your own roster...
all implemented in their respective primes
1.Marciano
2.Foreman
3.Dempsey
4.Ali
5.Frazier
6.Tua
7.Lewis
8.Tyson
9.Ibeabuchi
10.Morrison
Re: If you could create your own roster...
how bout mines
Heavyweight
1. Ali
2. Frazier
3. Foreman
4. Lewis
5. Tyson
6. Rocky Marciano
7. Joe Louis
8. Holmes
Light Heavy
1. Dwight Muhhammed Quawi
2. Holyfield
3. Toney
4. Hopkins
5. Jermaine Taylor
6. John Conteh
7. Winky Wright
8. Archie Moore
Middleweight
1. Marvin Hagler
2. Carlos Monzon
3. Nigel Benn
4. Joe Calzaghe
5. Roy Jones Jr
6. Paul Williams
7. Steve Collins
8. Marcel Cerdan
Welterweight
1. SRRobinson
2. SRL
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Ricky Hatton
5. Mosley
6. Cotto
7. De la Hoya
8. Mayweather Jr.
Lightweight
1. Roberto Duran
2. JC Chavez
3. Mayweather Jr.
4. Pacquiao
5. Juan Manuel Marquez
6. Nate Campbell
7. Pernell Whittaker
8. Kid Chocolate
Featherweight
1. Willie Pep
2. Salvador Sanchez
3. Azumah Nelson
4. Morales
5. MAB
6. Alexis Arguello
7. Jorge Paez
8. Naseem Hamed
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Great list, I missed a lot of those guys: Monzon, Moore, Marciano, Louis, and Benn.
Re: If you could create your own roster...
Heres my list, theres a few "DLC" fighters thats narrowly miss out.
Heavyweight
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Mike Tyson
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Evander Holyfield
5. Vitali Klitschko
6. Wladimir Klitschko
7. David Haye
8. Ruslan Chagaev
Light Heavyweight
1. Joe Calzaghe
2. Nigel Benn
3. Chris Eubank
4. Bob Foster
5. Chad Dawson
6. Antonio Tarver
7. Roy Jones Jr.
8. Carl Froch
Middleweight
1. Bernard Hopkins
2. Kelly Pavlik
3. Jermain Taylor
4. Ronald Wright
5. Sugar Ray Robinson
6. Marvin Hagler
7. Carlos Monzon
8. Jake LaMotta
Welterweight
1. Shane Mosley
2. Miguel Cotto
3. Floyd Mayweather
4. Ricky Hatton
5. Ray Leonard
6. Roberto Duran
7. Thomas Hearns
8. Oscar De La Hoya
Lightweight
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Juan Manuel Marquez
3. Juan Diaz
4. Pernell Whitaker
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
6. Amir Khan
7. Alexis Arguello
8. Aaron Pyror
Featherweight
1. Marco Antonio Barrera
2. Erik Morales
3. Naseem Hammad
4. Salvador Sanchez
5. Chris John
6. Willie Pep
7. Juan Manuel Lopez
8. Wilfredo Gomez
DLC
1. George Foreman
2. Joe Louis
3. Larry Holmes
4. Rocky Marciano
5. Archie Moore
6. Gene Tunney
7. Michael Spinks
8. Steve Collins
9. Felix Trinidad
10. Rocky Graziano