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"Mohammed ali
Mike Tyson
Prince naseem
Amir khan
Floyed mayweather
Manny pacquiao"
please explain how you reach legendary status....as im rather perplexed with a few of your selections who seem rather out of place  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mohammed ali
Mike Tyson
Prince naseem
Amir khan
Floyed mayweather
Manny pacquiao"
M Tyson and M Ali yes....but the rest,,,, nah,,,, not really
Perhaps theres a place for the likes of
Marvin Hagler
Rocky Marciano..
Thomes Hearns
Roberto Duran
Joe Frazier
Sugar Ray Leonard
To name but a few real legends of the ring imho
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mohammed ali
Mike Tyson
Prince naseem
Amir khan
Floyed mayweather
Manny pacquiao
M Tyson and M Ali yes....but the rest,,,, nah,,,, not really
Perhaps theres a place for the likes of
Marvin Hagler
Rocky Marciano..
Thomes Hearns
Roberto Duran
Joe Frazier
Sugar Ray Leonard
To name but a few real legends of the ring imho
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mohammed ali
Mike Tyson
Prince naseem
Amir khan
Floyed mayweather
Manny pacquiao
M Tyson and M Ali yes....but the rest,,,, nah,,,, not really
Perhaps theres a place for the likes of
Marvin Hagler
Rocky Marciano..
Thomes Hearns
Roberto Duran
Joe Frazier
Sugar Ray Leonard
To name but a few real legends of the ring imho
Richard Dunn "
hahaha..... nice one.... lol....
I once worked with a medic who claimed to have attended Richard Dunn when he had a accident falling on some scaffolding, which doesn’t surprise me, as he was pretty clumsy as a boxer too lol imho...
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By (user no longer on site)
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Some good ones mentioned....what about:
Roy Jones jr in his younger days. Arrogant but so quick and exciting to watch.
Nigel Benn - Brutal.
Chris Eubank. |
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Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion  |
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By *rumalexMan
over a year ago
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"Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion "
was henry cooper that good? genuine question i dont know much about his boxing career, how many quality fighters did he face and beat? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mohammed ali
Mike Tyson
Prince naseem
Amir khan
Floyed mayweather
Manny pacquiao"
Psml, you have forgotten Audley Harrison and David Haye... Amir khan and prince Naseem? Have you reached a legendary status with them on the PS3 because they are no where near it in the real world.
Joe Calzage, gets my vote |
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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago
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A few of the above were hardly legends.
Heny Cooper who was a gentleman but not aboxing legend sure he floored Ali but there is no way he was ever any where near as good a boxer.
Sugar Ray Leonard and Robinson
Ali
Frazier
Durran
Hagler
Hearns
All of the above were around when there were a lot of good contenders in their weight divisions. |
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"Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion
was henry cooper that good? genuine question i dont know much about his boxing career, how many quality fighters did he face and beat?"
Hard to say, his big problem he cut easier than a cut throat.
Anyone who could deck Ali in those days must have had something. |
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If you want to know about a legend, check out Jack Dempsey in my opinion, the best white heavyweight ever to enter a boxing ring, Rocky Marciano included. If they had been around at the same time, I reckon Jack would have taken him.
He was the guy who's style Mike Tyson testafies had a massive influence on his own.
He ruled the world during the Great Depression, and this was a time when most men had to fight just to feed their families, so to be the best of the best, it really meant something.
He regularly fought in front of 100,000 people, and was invloved in the first 2 or 3 million dollar gates.
Check him out on wiki
He had an amazing life and became a successful businesman at the end of his ring career. |
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John L. Sullivan became a legend in his own time. He had won the Heavyweight Championship title in 1882 and had successfully defended it for 10 years. He was the last of the bare-knuckle champions
Also Tommy Farr the Welsh heavyweight should never be forgot as the man who was robbed after narrowly losing a controversial points decision after 15 rounds against Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, …..….
Tommy hand was even raised in victory by the referee ,,,,, until the decision was eventually given to Louis in front of a 50000 crowd in the Yankee stadium ……
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"John L. Sullivan became a legend in his own time. He had won the Heavyweight Championship title in 1882 and had successfully defended it for 10 years. He was the last of the bare-knuckle champions
Also Tommy Farr the Welsh heavyweight should never be forgot as the man who was robbed after narrowly losing a controversial points decision after 15 rounds against Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, …..….
Tommy hand was even raised in victory by the referee ,,,,, until the decision was eventually given to Louis in front of a 50000 crowd in the Yankee stadium ……
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Yeah, that was the top of Tommy's career really. He never got over the disappointment of "nearly" doing it.
Great fighter though, and one of the finest to come from these Isles |
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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"Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion
was henry cooper that good? genuine question i dont know much about his boxing career, how many quality fighters did he face and beat?
Hard to say, his big problem he cut easier than a cut throat.
Anyone who could deck Ali in those days must have had something."
If cruiserweight had existed in Henry's time he would have held the title for years and been hailed as a pound for pound great.... |
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"Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion
was henry cooper that good? genuine question i dont know much about his boxing career, how many quality fighters did he face and beat?
Hard to say, his big problem he cut easier than a cut throat.
Anyone who could deck Ali in those days must have had something.
If cruiserweight had existed in Henry's time he would have held the title for years and been hailed as a pound for pound great...."
I think you're right about the cruiserweight classification, but Henry's problem was his susceptability to bad cuts. Remember too, that small blocks are generally faster and throw more punches.
He might have won a title, but don't forget that there was a bloke over in the USA called Bob Foster. He ruled the Lightheavies for years |
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"Sir Henry Cooper
British boxing legend who once knocked down the great Cassius Clay (and should of won except for the old glove scenario)
Former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion
was henry cooper that good? genuine question i dont know much about his boxing career, how many quality fighters did he face and beat?
Hard to say, his big problem he cut easier than a cut throat.
Anyone who could deck Ali in those days must have had something.
If cruiserweight had existed in Henry's time he would have held the title for years and been hailed as a pound for pound great....
I think you're right about the cruiserweight classification, but Henry's problem was his susceptability to bad cuts. Remember too, that small blocks are generally faster and throw more punches.
He might have won a title, but don't forget that there was a bloke over in the USA called Bob Foster. He ruled the Lightheavies for years"
me? I'm fighting again soon if you want to buy tickets |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A few of the above were hardly legends.
Heny Cooper who was a gentleman but not aboxing legend sure he floored Ali but there is no way he was ever any where near as good a boxer.
Sugar Ray Leonard and Robinson
Ali
Frazier
Durran
Hagler
Hearns
All of the above were around when there were a lot of good contenders in their weight divisions."
Thats 6 of the top 10 you forgot Benn, Euebank, Forman. I'd agree about Henry. a nice guy but not in the all time great category.
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a list of boxing legends could go on and on including truly great boxers to just some peoples favourites with a few "ok" fighters in between.
For me you have to break down lists like that in to decades or divisions.
The only present day boxers who would be more or less guaranteed a place in such a list are manny and mayweather.
Nassem is/was only a legend in his own mind.
My favourite legend of all time is the truly Marvellous Marvin Hagler, an animal in the ring, but genuinely nice guy and gentlemen out of it |
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