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Let me know your thoughts. For me it was max baer, he was a pure performer and party animal, he even joked while he was dying from a heart attack (he rang the hotel operater and when she asked if he wanted the house doctor he said "hell no, i need a people doctor!").
Chris Eubank for me
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VERY good choice mate, Eubanks antics still tickle me to this day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris24-7
apart from the obvious choice then Eubank, Naz and PBF for me in recent times and the ones I have been witness to.
The ones you love to hate (though I was a Eubank fan in his twilight days)
Emmanuel Augustus
The drunken master.Quote:
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I'm assuming by the obvious choice you mean Ali?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
Yeah ali will always be the obvious choice, great man in and out of the ring.Quote:
Originally Posted by rjj tszyuI'm assuming by the obvious choice you mean Ali?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
right here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vE33zvH4g
Tex cobb was an oddball also
mr mohammed ali ;D
and of course naseem hamed
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Originally Posted by rjj tszyuI'm assuming by the obvious choice you mean Ali?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
I was actually on about Nicky Piper
Oh of course. How could I be so foolish? lolQuote:
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Originally Posted by rjj tszyuI'm assuming by the obvious choice you mean Ali?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
I was actually on about Nicky Piper
Jalke LaMotta is an intruiging character. His boxing style suited his personality well.
He was a rapist wasnt he ?Quote:
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Nobody mentioning Tyson?
A self-confessed rapist, woman beater, thug, sosiopath, alcoholic....comedian, he was a lot of things and he was unpredictable. He was a great character and fighter, just not a great person. Still, an interesting one.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClangerHe was a rapist wasnt he ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
noQuote:
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He was quite the character himselfQuote:
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who was that goof who said he loved to where womens underware? i was watchng him on friday night fights long ago he is quite the character
Too busy eating children and ears for my liking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris24-7He was quite the character himselfQuote:
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Not necessarily biting peoples ears but you gotta miss the action of boxing when Tyson was around, he was a love or hateQuote:
Originally Posted by rjj tszyuToo busy eating children and ears for my liking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris24-7He was quite the character himselfQuote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUQ8t_QRT4
:o Carlos Monzon--party animal and darling of the Jet Set, but killer in the ring (and outside as well).
:o Max Baer
:o Jung Koo "The Korean Hawk" Chang - An Asian version of Monzon
:o Jake LaMotta. Brute both inside and outside the ring. But still alive and chipper!!!
never really thought about Tyson - I was kind of thinking of their characters outside the ring.
Mike's menace etc.. and persona was mostly confined to inside the ropes for me - am talking about the 80s Tyson.
In his latter years his character in and out of the ring was pretty embarassing if you ask me.
So thats probably why I never thought about him:-\
Former 3 time world champion...
From Managua, Nicaragua...
Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga
Leonard
The Clown Prince Jorge Paez
Hector Camacho
Edison Miranda
Bernard Hopkins
Good choiceQuote:
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I totally have to agree, his ring presence, the way he strutted around and stared down the crowd but above all the way he spoke, what diction for a boxer!....and dresses like a victorian gentleman ready for fisticuffs, only one Eubank :D
When in this day and age would you have an event like the below on tv, absolute classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO-js...eature=related Watch from about 3mins onward for Benn/Eubank interview.
Joichiro 'Joe' Tatsuyoshi ....part Gatti....part Paez
Eubank was the pinnacle of sporting arrogance throughout britain in the 1990s and hence gained one hell of a backlash for it..
Quite beautiful though towards the end how the same arrogant eubank went from being universally hated to becoming a fan favourite solely because the casual fan realised that love him or hate him he was a great fighter who had given them hours of pleasure.
Remember my dad hoisting me over his shoulders in the local pub so i could roar "EUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBANK" with all the other locals urging him on to victory over steve collins!!
Surely its Ali. And love him or hate him Don King is certainly a character
Felix Trinidad, always a smile on the mans face until you fuck with him like Vargas and Mayorga did lol i remember Trinidad was all smiles until Vargas acted like he was gonna spit water in his face in the center of the ring
Antonio Tarver, was annoying but was funny as hell with some of the shit he'd say.
Muhammid Ali
Yeah Ali is certainly the top of the list, I have a hours of inverviews and stuff on my externel HD. The guy just sucked you in whenever he said anything. The Parkinson interviews were just amazing.Quote:
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