who was the better fighter Muhammad Ali or Ray Leonard

[~Lucky13~]

Hatton IMO is a nightmare for Leonard in terms of style, he would rush him all night long and breath down his neck while wrecking his weak body.
Styles make fights, you have to remember that!

[TheGreatA]

In my opinion Ali was better.

Archie Moore
Doug Jones
Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
George Chuvalo
Cleveland Williams
Ernie Terrell
Zora Folley
Jerry Quarry
Oscar Bonavena
Jimmy Ellis
Buster Mathis
Mac Foster
Bob Foster
Joe Bugner
Ken Norton
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Ron Lyle

compared to

Ranzany
Andy Price
Wilfred Benitez
Roberto Duran
Ayub Kalule
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Donny Lalonde

It's the sheer amount of Ali's quality victories, although his p4p worth is hard to calculate because he was a heavyweight and naturally fought smaller and also bigger men.

If Leonard's career had not been cut short by the eye injury then perhaps he would rate higher than Ali IMO, but then again Ali missed 3 years of his prime as well.

[abadger]

Hatton IMO is a nightmare for Leonard in terms of style, he would rush him all night long and breath down his neck while wrecking his weak body.
Styles make fights, you have to remember that!

I think he would also be 'all over him like a rash'

[Dynamite Kid]

Never seen either, so once again, thanks for the tip. Appreciated.

Abadger get the Lalonde fight its a class the way Ray takes him out

[Ras44]

Hatton IMO is a nightmare for Leonard in terms of style, he would rush him all night long and breath down his neck while wrecking his weak body.
Styles make fights, you have to remember that!

Leonard? Weak body?
Leonard fought Hagler. Leonard stood up to one of the top P4P punches in the game, Tommy Hearns. Hatton would die if Hagler ever touched him with a jab.

Hatton got TKOed by Floyd Mayweather.

[abadger]

Abadger get the Lalonde fight its a class the way Ray takes him out

Will do, thanks again.

[Parody]

In my opinion Ali was better.

Archie Moore
Doug Jones
Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
George Chuvalo
Cleveland Williams
Ernie Terrell
Zora Folley
Jerry Quarry
Oscar Bonavena
Jimmy Ellis
Buster Mathis
Mac Foster
Bob Foster
Joe Bugner
Ken Norton
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Ron Lyle

compared to

Ranzany
Andy Price
Wilfred Benitez
Roberto Duran
Ayub Kalule
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Donny Lalonde

It's the sheer amount of Ali's quality victories, although his p4p worth is hard to calculate as he was a heavyweight and naturally fought smaller and also bigger men.

Henry Cooper and Earnie Shavers too.

[Dynamite Kid]

In my opinion Ali was better.

Archie Moore
Doug Jones
Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
George Chuvalo
Cleveland Williams
Ernie Terrell
Zora Folley
Jerry Quarry
Oscar Bonavena
Jimmy Ellis
Buster Mathis
Mac Foster
Bob Foster
Joe Bugner
Ken Norton
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Ron Lyle

compared to

Ranzany
Andy Price
Wilfred Benitez
Roberto Duran
Ayub Kalule
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Donny Lalonde

It's the sheer amount of Ali's quality victories, although his p4p worth is hard to calculate as he was a heavyweight and naturally fought smaller and also bigger men.

If Leonard's career had not been cut short by the eye injury then perhaps he would rate higher than Ali IMO, but then again Ali missed 3 years of his prime as well.

TheManchine ,Leonard had to retire how many times

Archie Moore was an old man

Sonny Liston could not deal with lateral movemenr which tells u how limited he was ,that and the fact he pulled his arm out the socket hitting thin air LOL

Ken Norton we all know how that story goes

[Boogie Nights]

Ray faired better against the best fighters of his generation than Ali did wether he rematched them or not is irrelevant IMO cause he beat them 1st time around when they were at their best and when he fought Hagler they were both old/shot fighters and that was 2 divisions out of Leonards natural weight division and he still beat Hagler

i do think ray outworked him, but also a lot of people would say that hagler won.....

when ali faced frazier for the third time they were both shot, but i thought what ali did in the manilla heat on those worn down legs was much more dramatic and courages than the approach ray used against hagler. better effort overall

whether ray faired better against his opposition than ali did against his is a matter of debate again

ali became the first man to tko liston making him quit in the fight where he was a huge underdog, in the one of the biggest upsets

in the rematch he ko'd liston, although under shady circumstances

he ko's invincible foreman, the man to knock out george

he beat frazier in their 2 other fights pretty convincingly, even badly wobbling frazier in the second fight

he gave patterson a boxing clinic

quarry was a tough son of a ***** who's very, very underated today. and of course his fights with norton were debatable but no real robberies

ali destroyed cleveland williams. not exactly a hall of famer, but dangerous opponent nevertheless.

ray had his great moments too, but i think that ali outdone him in that regard. but it doesnt take away the greatness from either fighter

[Dynamite Kid]

Leonard? Weak body?
Leonard fought Hagler. Leonard stood up to one of the top P4P punches in the game, Tommy Hearns. Hatton would die if Hagler ever touched him with a jab.

Hatton got TKOed by Floyd Mayweather.

maybe he did not see the uppercuts and left hooks that Leonard absorbed from Roberto Duran