who is your favorite current or past fighter and why?

[Kel]

Lennox Lewis...He ruled in perhaps HW boxings second best era...beat everyone there was to beat...Avenged both his losses with authority....He improved everytime out...

He was a master boxer yet his punch was devestating...he was a thinking mans fighter...He could pick his opponents apart...

Regardless of opinions due to his 2 KO losses his chin was fantastic....

One of the best thngs about him is he knew when it was time to go...He knew he was starting to lose a bit of what made him great and refused to be one of those champions who would not retire until he was driven out of the sport by an embaressing loss....

Currently I would have said Margarito until the hand wrap incident...

So I have to go with Hopkins...

Again Master boxer...fantastic chin...will fight anyone...a thinking mans fighter

100% agree on that. Getting out when your on top must be so hard to do, but I suppose only those that have made huge money have that option.

[fan johnny]

My dad got me hooked on boxing watching Muhammad Ali, except he got so freakin' mad.... because he just wanted somebody to hit him....so he would shut the hell up!. He got so into the fight that my mom even got excited... and she was always so calm.... she'd be shouting "hit him! come' on! just hit him...

My favorite though was Roberto Duran. I used to watch him KO guys after playing around. I was the one shouting for Duran to KO Leonard. I guess I'm partial to the brawler style rather than the boys that dance.

I've been hooked on Manny Pacquiao since 1997 in the Philippines, seemed like he was knocking everyone out in the first round. I hadn't been following boxing from the mid 80's till I start watching Pacquiao because of a lot of overseas work.

[Andre]

Tszyu great fighter, chose a style that came to to do the job above some of the other boxing skills we all knew he had, nice bloke ,honest ,no excuses.

Latley since Tszyus retirement Mosley another nice bloke who comes to play hard. I remember years ago he gave a good mate of his a go at him in an interm fight, fought for a while and then koed him. All business.

[C-Lo]

I honestly can't tell if I like Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Leonard more. I liked how fast and slick Ali was. He talked A LOT but he backed it up EVEN MORE! He beat everyone worth beating while he was fighting.

Sugar Ray Leonard could frustrate you by flurrying then popping out of there and he could slug it out if he wanted to. No need to mention the names he took out, because he beat EVERYONE in one of the BEST if not THE BEST era of boxing.

Current Favorites: Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez, Miguel Cotto, Kelly Pavlik, Sugar Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather, Jermain Taylor, and as much as I don't want to admit this, I like Wlad as well...

[Galaxy]

Past:

Pryor, Galaxy, Sanchez, Lopez, Saad Muhammad, Tyson, Whitaker.

Current favs:

Rafael Marquez, Calderon, Campbell, Darchinyan, R. Gonzalez, Juanma Lopez, F. Montiel, Katsidis, Guzman (even though he pissed me off in not making weight)

[Spicoli]

One will just not do the question justice....have to list

Saad Muhammed:Passion,desire,internal fire,tenacity and self belief.Left hook from hadies,pressure....stayed around way to long

Azumah Nelson:Calculating,deceptive in pressure,accurate combination puncher,very low key,true thinking & instinct on timing fighter

Nigel Benn:Nuff said

Evander Holyfield:Get past the 'needs to retire' stuff,thats obvious and agreeable.Warrior personified.Underrated on nice left hook,zero self doubt,great counter/combination puncher,love the bounce...constant positioning,balls to the wall at best that would insist on giving more than he had taken

Bernard Hopkins:Complete transition from youth,all out onslaught to One of the best boxing 101 minds I am privledged to have witnessed.Will not win marks for best attitude or fan relations but a ring general to learn much from.Absolutly cleaned out his division...at time to boredom yes....but proved himself a very wise ATG with execution going on close to 4 decades wise now