Mount Rushmore of Boxing

[TitoFan]

Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Muhammad Ali
Roberto Duran

[Primo Carnera]

SRR
SRL
Ali
RJJ

[X]

Seeing as it is Mount Rushmore ....

Roberto Duran - Hands of STONE
ROCKy Marciano
Sonny Liston - Old STONEFACE
Primo Carnera - the Ambling ALP

[powerpuncher]

When I think of the Mount Rushmore of a sport, I don’t necessarily look at who was the best but who created the biggest impact. Although being the best can go hand in hand with impact. Looking at it that way, this would be my list.

Dempsey, Louis, Ali, Tyson

Although it seems blasphemous to keep SRR off the list, I think that Mount Rushmore has to be filled with more known fighters that last through generations. And despite you liking it or not, the heavyweight division is where the biggest ratings come from.

[powerpuncher]

I can see Sullivan being on there just for the mere fact that he was the first heavyweight champion, but I just don’t think he did enough to deserve it. Beyond being the first, he did nothing else. It was almost more of a right place right time situation.

[SlimTrae]

I can see Sullivan being on there just for the mere fact that he was the first heavyweight champion, but I just don’t think he did enough to deserve it. Beyond being the first, he did nothing else. It was almost more of a right place right time situation.

I missed this post. I concur. I really struggled with where to place him, more than the other HW's back then.

[SlimTrae]

When I think of the Mount Rushmore of a sport, I don’t necessarily look at who was the best but who created the biggest impact. Although being the best can go hand in hand with impact. Looking at it that way, this would be my list.

Dempsey, Louis, Ali, Tyson

Although it seems blasphemous to keep SRR off the list, I think that Mount Rushmore has to be filled with more known fighters that last through generations. And despite you liking it or not, the heavyweight division is where the biggest ratings come from.

I don’t necessarily look at who was the best but who created the biggest impact.

That's the key. If I went by skill, no way could I put anyone previous to the 1940s. No basketball player back then, baseball, boxer, can hang with today's. So it comes down to creator vs perfector.
I went with creators of our sport and their impact.
Mount Rushmore for the fighters who made our sport what it is.
P4P list for skilled mofos who took the game to the next level.

[Master]

Louis, Ali, SRR and Armstrong.

[Fenster]

My lifetime

Duran
Leonard
Pac
Roy (if he retired after Tarver 1) / Tyson (80s) / Lennox (top 10 greatest ever heavyweight) / Choco (greatest little fella?)

[imp]

1. Ali
2. Tyson
3. Floyd Mayweather
4. Sugar Ray Robinson
5. Jack Johnson

My Mount Rushmore has Five.

Big fan of Roy Jones Junior and Sugar Ray Leonard but it’s not a top ten..yet.

[imp]

Duran never made my list..too busy quitting and discussing his multiple losses with PacMan.

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[iwng100]

In no specific order :

Don King
Eddie Futch
Muhammad Ali
Michael Buffer

[TIC]

In no specific order :

Don King
Eddie Futch
Muhammad Ali
Michael Buffer

love the thinking on don & michael

[SlimTrae]

In no specific order :

Don King
Eddie Futch
Muhammad Ali
Michael Buffer

Nice. On Buffer.
I laugh at how many ring announcers have tried a moniker or two. Forget what fight I watched, the guy said "Leeeeets GO to War!!"
meh?

Don King, a man so infamous, we know next to nothing about every promoter but him.

[Syntax Error]

I'm assuming that the Mount Rushmore thing encompasses not just what the fighter did in the ring, but what their cultural & wider significance too?

If so, that means heavyweights will probably be over represented over & above some potentially greater smaller fighters, so here goes:-

Robinson
Ali
Louis
Marciano