Your top 5?

[palmerq]

5 Chagaev
4 Hopkins
3 Povetkin
2 Wladimir
1 Vitali

I have a liking for the commie heavyweights :S

[Fenster]

Floyd has got everyone at it. And Floyd's picks ain't that nuts compared to some.

The SKY boxing pundits (Boxing News - Boxing Fights, Fixtures, Results | Sky Sports)

Johnny Nelson
1) Jack Johnson
2) Muhammad Ali
3) Sugar Ray Robinson
4) Sugar Ray Leonard
5) Mike Tyson

Paul Smith
1) Sugar Ray Leonard
2) Muhammad Ali
3) Roberto Duran
4) Joe Louis
5) Alexis Arguello

Jamie Moore
1) Sugar Ray Leonard
2) Sugar Ray Robinson
3) Roberto Duran
4) Floyd Mayweather
5) Muhammad Ali

Spencer Fearon
1) Sugar Ray Robinson
2) Joe Louis
3) Willie Pep
4) Muhammad Ali
5) Roberto Duran

[Master]

There is a big difference between your favourite top 5 fighters and who you think are the best top fighters ever.

[Fenster]

There's obvious era bias in these lists too.

Seems like most people in their late 30s/40s will pick either Duran or Leonard or both. I bet in 20 years time Floyd will get a much more favourable mention.

[erics44]

frank Bruno
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Ricky Hatton
Carl Thompson

[Master]

frank Bruno
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Ricky Hatton
Carl Thompson

That is just English and Manchester bias.

[erics44]

frank Bruno
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Ricky Hatton
Carl Thompson

That is just English and Manchester bias.

it issssssnnnnnnnnnnt

anyway, SRL for instance was obviously a very good fighter and entertaining and all that but as far as i remember i never watched him fight as it happened

how can you have a fighter in your top 5 who youve never experienced in an as-it-happens situation?

theres the excitement of the build up and anticipation and all that, ring walk not know what to expect, personalities, knowing his record inside out, whos he gonna fight next, wheres he gonna end up

going back watching fights isnt the same

i can see SRL was unbeaten until a certain point but thats all i know, i dont know anything about the journeymen he fought or when he stepped up

really all i know about SRL is his big fights and ive gone back watching them knowing the result

[Fenster]

Did you mean Robinson? I thought you was about 40?

[Master]

Did you mean Robinson? I thought you was about 40?

No he means Leonard. We missed out on the peak years when he was welterweight.

The comeback against hagler was manufactured.

[Fenster]

Oh right. Too young to appreciate Leonard-Duran/Hearns 1 but I can remember being excited - and the build up - for the fights from the mid eighties. I can remember the ITV/BBC midweek sports shows and whatnot hyping them.

I think I still have VHS tape's of Duran-Leonard etc that you could buy back then.

[erics44]

Oh right. Too young to appreciate Leonard-Duran/Hearns 1 but I can remember being excited - and the build up - for the fights from the mid eighties. I can remember the ITV/BBC midweek sports shows and whatnot hyping them.

I think I still have VHS tape's of Duran-Leonard etc that you could buy back then.

i am about 40 and i kind of remember the fights happening but i didnt really watch them, the only boxing i watched was british boxing in the 80s

I reckon i started branching out when tyson came along

i could well have tyson in my top 5

[Fenster]

Tyson came along when the fab four were still fighting.

Remember Tyson's fights being on ITV on Sat/Sun mornings/afternoon. I was sitting in a snooker club, eating a steak and kidney pie, when I saw Tyson iron out Larry Holmes.

[erics44]

youre right fenners - they were active

its a fact

i dont really remember them fellas live anyway

but i do remember tyson v holmes, i definately watched that, if not live then definately fresh around the time it happened

I definately watched more than one tyson fight before the berbick fight but i dont really remember which ones i watched live and which ones i have only gone back to since

know what i mean? my memory is being watered down with my minds attempts to build a new history in my life events

[Master]

The fab 4 were not facing one another after 1986, discounting the crap fights after, it was the early 80's when they were at their best.

The late 80's were Tyson years and the first fight they showed of his was against Frazier when I became a fan.

[imp]

No one has pac in their list...mmmm.

Wonder why?