Name your 5 most entertaining fighters

Archie Moore, a boyhood hero.

Tyson, of course.

Aaron Pryor, made it look so easy.

Hearns, of course.

Joe Frazier, perpetual motion.


Guys I would never miss watching if possible: GGG, Oscar, PacMan, Alexis Arguello and Ali.

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I put Rigo and Floyd on the list. Not due to offensive output but watching their defense and footwork amazes me. I saw Rigo in the boring thread and I can understand why but technically he is exciting to me.

Santa Cruz, the kid just amazes me, nonstop
Omar ( I forget the kids last name by I'm sure you know who I mean) Hopefully he gets some defense cause I would like to see him stay around.
Cotto- Always liked him.

I left Pac out but he would actually be number one.

I went with active fighters, historically I would put Max Baer. I've seen his old fights, now he was exciting. My list is subject to change but these are what came to mind. I left Manny out of No.1 because I cry when you guys call me a pactard

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Piss on 'em, Sir Pactard, it's your list!

At present, I'm most entertained by Golovkin, M Garcia, Beterbiev, Lomachenko and Kovalev.

I like watching boxers with skilled aggression.

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Saad Muhammad
Little Red Lopez
Nigel Benn
Arguello
Michael Carbajal
A) Jung Koo Chang B) Jeff Fenech C) Holyfield D) Tasuyoshi E) Gatti F) Kevin Pompey G ok I'll stop ;D

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Holyfield? Bleh....now Bowe on the other hand he was the one who made that trilogy.

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;D Wlads #1 fan is critiques a pick on 'entertaining' ;D

Ok so rather than the pair that ended his career, and the Holyfield fights that helped initiate it....Bowes entertaining fights were......???

THAT trilogy was a mutual hardship, and its the rally and near ko mentioned first by most.

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Michael Carbajal always comes to play hard .

Funny I had Humberto Gonzales in my mind when I opened the thread and got thinking,those two had one of my favorite all time fights.

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I put Rigo and Floyd on the list. Not due to offensive output but watching their defense and footwork amazes me. I saw Rigo in the boring thread and I can understand why but technically he is exciting to me.

Santa Cruz, the kid just amazes me, nonstop
Omar ( I forget the kids last name by I'm sure you know who I mean) Hopefully he gets some defense cause I would like to see him stay around.
Cotto- Always liked him.

I left Pac out but he would actually be number one.

I went with active fighters, historically I would put Max Baer. I've seen his old fights, now he was exciting. My list is subject to change but these are what came to mind. I left Manny out of No.1 because I cry when you guys call me a pactard

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Piss on 'em, Sir Pactard, it's your list!

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Thanks for the support, most of them are Europeans anyway so it's not like their opinions means anything.

I have a real love and hate relationship with these kinds of threads. Once I take a peek inside I'm doomed. I work alone and in a big shop with lots of miles put on throughout the day so when I saw this earlier I grabbed pen and paper and went about my day. Five came fast and then another five and then another and so on. When I tried to narrow it down to five all time I honestly couldn't and believe me I tried. I changed my top 5 almost as many times as I added people to the list. So I compromised and broke it down into eras. For practical purposes based on decades. Some fellas overlap a bit.

2010-present

Gonzalez
Santa Cruz
Kovalev
Cotto
Garcia

Yesterday 2000-2010

Corrales
Vazquez
Morales
Mab
Hatton

Day before that. 1990-2000

Jones
Trinidad
Mosley
Jackson
Lopez

Last week. 1980-1990

Hearns
Arguello
Sanchez
Gomez
Qawi

Last month. 1970-1980

Napoles
Olivares
Arguello
Chacon
Zarate

Last year. 1960-1970

Saldivar
Chuvalo
Tiger
Foster
Jofre

Ray leonard

Jung koo chang

Finito

Jose luis lopez

Marquez

Linares

1) Matthew Saad Muhammad
2) Nigel Benn
3) Carl Thompson
4) Mike Tyson
5) Prince Naseem Hamed

Michael Katsidis
Nigel Benn
Naz
Mike Tyson
Marcos Maidiana

Ray Leonard
Tyson
Gatti
Benn
RJJ.

Ricardo Lopez, Chavez, Toney, Little Red Lopez, Mike MacCallum/Buddy McGirt.

From the time he moved up to 147, McGirt did some beautiful things in the ring. I also really enjoy watching fighters that have no physical advantages but really know how to box and are quality pro fighters. Fernie Morales from El Paso falls into this group and I really liked to watch him fight.

Almost forgot Orlando Canizalez.

I know I'm gonna miss a few, so I'll list more than 5 (in no particular order).

Trinidad
Arguello
SRL
Tyson
Corrales
Barrera
Cotto


I'm sure I'll be back to add some later. ;D

Right now, Matthysse, Maidana, Angulo, Alvarado, Rios. Pacquaio, Bika, GGG, Wilder and Ji Hoon Kim.

Kirkland is coming back soon too.

I need my ass kicked!

Johnny Tapia...RIP. Just rewatched the Ayala, Romero and Martinez fights, what a whirlwind. On the sleeve, heart exposed and a pure thrill to watch between the ropes.