The greatest boxer - Leonard
The greatest fight - Lyle-Foreman
The greatest boxing round ever fought - Haglar / Hearns round 1
The Greatest boxer who crossed over from another sport
The greatest MMA fighter - Bones Jones
The greatest soccer player - Pele
The greatest Basketball player - Wilt...
Before seeing the correct list here I guessed Boone Kirkman and Charlie Polite and when I saw Terry Danniels I said "oh yeah" and the others jogged my mind. later . . . Of the five that day Boone Kirkman actually gave the best competitive accounting of himself.
The greatest boxer
The greatest fight
The greatest boxing round ever fought
The greatest MMA fighter
The greatest NBA player
The greatest NFL quarterback
The greatest NFL running back.
The greatest NHL player
The greatest Rugby player
The greatest college football team
The greatest Rock and...
An excellent matchup. . . . .I hope it happens.. . . .I believe that Povetkin's age and lack of activity will catchup with him.
Usyk with the better overall skills will then step up and take out Joshua.
When I use the term "fighters" I include MMA as well as boxers otherwise I try to segregate the word "boxers" when referring to those that participate in the sport.
in hand to hand combat to win the great final battle?
Mine would be: (remember that a good big man always beats a good little man so a ferocious big guy beats a talented little guy to qualify)
Mike Tyson
Fedor
Jack Dempsey
Jon Jones
Rocky Marciano
Rickson Gracie
Anderson Silva
Vitali Klitschko...
For the general sports fans of the world and not necessarily boxing just purists: Pacquioa vs Lomachenko at 140 lbs, .Golovkin vs Canelo lll , Fury vs Wilder rematch and Joshua vs Usyk
Probably the greatest boxer to come out of the Puget Sound area was Freddie Steele and secondly I would add Leo Randolph. . . . As far as Hurley he was in the category of many of the all time greats in terms of manager/promoter/trainers and would be compared to a Lou Duva of today's...
In the scope of his career in various weight class championships he could have fought today's stars:
Canelo Alvarez
Gennady Golovkin
Andrae Ward
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
Dmitry Bivol
Artur Beterbiev
Oleksandr Usyk
and even Deontay Wilder
I will finish this thread with an all-time Pacific Northwest Cruiser/Heavyweight tournament:
* Joe Hipp . . . .(The top Northwest heavyweight of all time)
-Boone Kirkman
-Thad Spenser
-Pete Radamacher
-Mike Wilson
-Pat McNurtry
-Marvin Camel
-Harry "Kid" Matthews
-Patrick Ferguson
-Kenny Keene
To guage Boone's popularity at the time he fought a guy named Bill Drover who was promoted as the "#10 heavyweight in Canada" supported by former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in an exhibition versus popular local DJ Bob Hardwick.. . . .The show drew a sellout of 14,000 at the Seattle...
For the next few years a series of round robin fights involving Deontay Wilder, Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will make this the Golden Era of heavyweights.
I attended the Cooney vs Holmes fight. . . It was and still is the highest attended boxing match in Las Vegas history (outdoors behind Caesars Palace) with probably more celebrities and stars in attendance than any event ever prior to Mayweather/Pacquiao. . . .The only fight I remember where the...
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