Your One Favourite Fighter Ever
Name your one favourite fighter ever. You can not cheat and state why they meant so much to you and made an impact.
Mine is Mike Tyson because I studied the history of boxing particularly the heavyweight division. To see a fighter in my life time who was a great heavyweight champion and set the record for the youngest heavyweight ever causing that much destruction was dream come true for me. I had scrap books, posters, VHS tapes and magazines dedicated to him.
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Nigel Benn
Came on the scene at the right time for me . Had just got into boxing, was in my teens and I just loved watching him on Fight Night. Power, excitement he brought it all. Loved a tear up.
Was nervous as hell every time he fought and have never felt so deflated as I was at a fight result when Eubank beat him in first bout. Also felt like crying the night he quit against Collins , but as he said "it just ain't there no more" :eek:
Ducked no one. British legend
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Roberto Duran.
I saw the 'Hands of Stone' in the 'second phrase' of his pomp (post New Orleans) and he seemed a phenomenon to my young self. And then to be told he had peaked and that his work in the 70s was of an even higher quality, scrambled my boxing mind!
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Bob Satterfield
Someone was leaving the Ring with a Headache !!!
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Bob Satterfield
Someone was leaving the Ring with a Headache !!!
He certainly put the B in Bomber and Banger, did Bob.
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Thomas Hearns , master boxer , KO puncher and vulnerable chin , all made him exciting to watch.
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No, I couldn't just drop other favourite fighters by singling out just one. They all do different things impeccably and I couldn't just pick. All could beat the other at their best. Calzaghe, Toney and Barrera are just that good. P4P I wouldn't like to make any bets on the outcome.
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Name your one favourite fighter ever. You can not cheat and state why they meant so much to you and made an impact.
Mine is Mike Tyson because I studied the history of boxing particularly the heavyweight division. To see a fighter in my life time who was a great heavyweight champion and set the record for the youngest heavyweight ever causing that much destruction was dream come true for me. I had scrap books, posters, VHS tapes and magazines dedicated to him.
Why do not you write some article based on what you read and studied about why Mike is so great ?
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Originally Posted by
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Name your one favourite fighter ever. You can not cheat and state why they meant so much to you and made an impact.
Mine is Mike Tyson because I studied the history of boxing particularly the heavyweight division. To see a fighter in my life time who was a great heavyweight champion and set the record for the youngest heavyweight ever causing that much destruction was dream come true for me. I had scrap books, posters, VHS tapes and magazines dedicated to him.
Why do not you write some article based on what you read and studied about why Mike is so great ?
OK? Can anyone else make sense of this post? I should just ignore it.
For me my favorite fighter in Pernell Whitaker. I witnessed his second fight with McGirt as barely more than a toddler. Then a few years later I fell in love with boxing after Barrera-Morales I. After that bout, I watched boxing when I could but I wasn't even 10 years old yet. When Roy and Bernard had the argument about 50-50 on live TV I decided boxing was the best sport in the world. Only professional wrestling had that type of drama attached. After becoming an ardent fan, I went back and watched Whitaker fights and realized what awesome taste a 4 year old me had. Then I chose Winky as my then current favorite after his win over Mosley and kept watching old Sweet Pea fights when I could on ESPN Classic. Then I just never stopped being a boxing nerd.
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NigeL Benn v G Man was the only fight where I got off my seat and cheered when Benn turned around the fight from that awful first round.
Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Ali all make an impact on boxing but name a fighter in your life time.
I like Buddy McGirt who was a class boxer but Pernell was on a different level and even to this day I can not figure out how he boxed, moved and used his reflexes.
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BRUUUUNOOOOOOO
also happens to be the best lb4lb fighter of all time over 8 rounds
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I forgot about Big Frank !!
He was more of a national institution really.
Doubt we'll ever see a fighter the whole nation gets behind like that again