Top 10 Boxers All-Time

[TheGreat1]

1.SRR
2.Henry armstrong
3.roberto duran
4.willie pep (before plane crash)
5.leonard
6.hagler
7.whitaker
8.benny leonard


candidates: mayweather if he keeps it up, if he beats cotto and hatton and judah and becomes undisputed welterweight in world i'd put him in too.

Thats a pretty good list. i'm not familiar with Benny leonard. What was his accomplishments

[J !]

arguably the best lightweight ever mate.
him or Duran.

they said he could fight a ten rounder and not hav ea hair on his head out of place.


he was some skilled boxer.

[marvelous_TG]

Thats a pretty good list. i'm not familiar with Benny leonard. What was his accomplishments

thank you.
hey read this article or some quotes in the article if you don't feel like reading it all. it has some more articles about duran is a great read armstrong etc check it out.

http://coxscorner.tripod.com/bleonard.html

[TheGreat1]

thank you.
hey read this article or some quotes in the article if you don't feel like reading it all. it has some more articles about duran is a great read armstrong etc check it out.

http://coxscorner.tripod.com/bleonard.html

ok thanks, he seems to be pretty good. I watch ESPN classic alot, i don't know why they never show his fights. how do you think he would do against JCC?

[marvelous_TG]

ok thanks, he seems to be pretty good. I watch ESPN classic alot, i don't know why they never show his fights. how do you think he would do against JCC?

i personally think he would beat him they are both great fighters but look at whitaker who fought chavez not even at his best weight and beat him, you could compare leonard to him only his defense isn't that good as whitakers although still great. but his offense is better, he had real punching power. it would go like the meldrick taylor fight, he would basiclly outbox chavez, but not make the mistakes taylor made. taylor had the tendicy to trade (brawll) wich was a mistake that cost him. leonard would not do that he would stick to boxing. so i see leonard outboxing chavez and win a UD. like they said leonard was one of the smartest fight to ever lace a pair of gloves.

[marvelous_TG]

do you agree GREAT1?

[marvelous_TG]

arguably the best lightweight ever mate.
him or Duran.

they said he could fight a ten rounder and not hav ea hair on his head out of place.


he was some skilled boxer.

hey j thnx for karma i hit you back.

[J !]

cheers bro interesting posts and agree with all you have said.

Benny is a legend.

[TheGreat1]

i personally think he would beat him they are both great fighters but look at whitaker who fought chavez not even at his best weight and beat him, you could compare leonard to him only his defense isn't that good as whitakers although still great. but his offense is better, he had real punching power. it would go like the meldrick taylor fight, he would basiclly outbox chavez, but not make the mistakes taylor made. taylor had the tendicy to trade (brawll) wich was a mistake that cost him. leonard would not do that he would stick to boxing. so i see leonard outboxing chavez and win a UD. like they said leonard was one of the smartest fight to ever lace a pair of gloves.

Damn thats deep, because i don't think anyone could beat JCC in his prime. Alot of people was pissed about the decision with Taylor, But after the fight Taylor had to go to the hospital for internal bleeding, and was never the same after. JCC hurt him the whole fight. he was very powerful for his weight.

[marvelous_TG]

here's something interesting form ray arcel on benny leonard, on how smart he was. he would make you fight his fight not yours.

Ray Arcel, one of the greatest trainers of all time, concurs on Leonard’s ability to out-think his opponent’s, (Anderson pp 121, 148-149), “Boxing is brains over brawn. I don’t care how much ability you got, if you can’t think your just another bum in the park. People ask me who’s the greatest boxer I ever saw pound for pound. I hesitate to say, either Benny Leonard or Ray Robinson. But Leonard’s mental energy surpassed anyone else’s.”

Arcel continued, “Benny Leonard was a picture. He was the one fighter who I felt could name the round with anybody. He could make you do the things you didn’t want to do. If you were a counterpuncher he would make you lead. If you were aggressive he would make you back up. He knew were to hit you…If you look at his record you will see he always fought good fighters. If you didn’t know how to fight, nobody would match you with Benny Leonard