Best Of These Lhw?

[butterfly1964]

ya know if butterfly says anything positive about fighters from the 50's its probably because its true

thank you, rockymarcianofan00.

[Yogi]

i hate when people pick langford for poles and **** when theyve never seen him fight, he could be slow as a ox and you would pick him over roy jones

Yeah, and I hate when assumptions are made by the ignorant who are unaware that there is footage of Langford in his prime and many people have seen it (it was broadcast on ESPN Classic in the past couple of years).

I have his fights with Lang & Flynn and he is by no means "slow as a ox" in them (the footage of him vs. Lang seems to be at a completely normal speed, judging by the referee's movement around the ring...the footage of Langford/Flynn is harder to tell due to the missing frames/jerkiness, but it's pretty close). Strong "as an ox", yes, because the footage of Langford fighting clearly shows him outmuscling bigger men during portions of the fight. The footage also shows an extremely talented, hard punching, and agressive boxer/puncher, who with these eyes just may have been the most impressive fighter on film from around that era and shortly thereafter.

[TheGreat1]

I'm going with M. Moorer, who won every one of his LHW fights by KO. Moorer was a beast at LHW

[Da Iceman]

no the hell he didnt, he didnt ko joey maxim

[butterfly1964]

no the hell he didnt, he didnt ko joey maxim

neither did moore.

[TheGreat1]

I'm refering to Micheal Moorer, former undefeated LHW champ

[SuzieQ49]

thats because maxim had a granite chin. only maxim could take that huge sneaky right hand moore layed on him in the 1st round of there 1952 title fight.




only one guy in history ever knocked out joey maxim....... curtis "the hatchetman" sheppard. sheppard was one of the hardest hitters of that era.


archie moore called sheppard "the hardest hitter i ever faced"


many others did as well

[tjmoney]

For this question you could have a couple different answers depending on how your looking at the question. I guess theres only 2 realistic ways to look at it however. One way you could go about it is comparing the fights and accomplishments each fighter had at lightheavy. I compared the top 3 vote getters on this list and figure Archie Moore as the most accomplished in the LightHeavy division. He had moore fights and more importantly title fights than both Jones and Charles. I came across something wierd though while looking at Boxrec and it was that none of Ezzard Charles fights were labeled as Title fights in the lightheavy division, if this is true than how can he be considered one of the best lightheavys if he never fought for or won the LH title? Hopefully someone can clear that up for me.

Now the other way to do this comparison is by physical talents. If you put all of these fighters in a tournament all at their Primes in this division I dont see anyone on the list that has the combo of power speed and elusiveness of Roy Jones. Although I haven't seen tape on all of these fighters I have seen most of them and when it comes down to a physical in ring boxing exhibition i think roy could take them all.

[marvdave]

Charles,Moore and Spinks..in that order

[butterfly1964]

thats because maxim had a granite chin. only maxim could take that huge sneaky right hand moore layed on him in the 1st round of there 1952 title fight.




only one guy in history ever knocked out joey maxim....... curtis "the hatchetman" sheppard. sheppard was one of the hardest hitters of that era.


archie moore called sheppard "the hardest hitter i ever faced"

many others did as well

even harder than rocky marciano?