GOAT Before Boxing's Golden Era

[shadeyfizzle]

Its almost unanimous within the boxing community that Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, and Muhammad Ali are the greatest fighters of all time.

But Pre-mid1930s which predecessors were considered the greatest fighters of all time???

The only ones that come to mind are John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey. I seriously doubt Jack Johnson or Joe Louis were ever in the discussion at the time given the prejudiced nature of the time period.

[talip bin osman]

lightweight great joe gans, P4P great sam langford and featherweight great abe atell...

gans actually went on to fight langford but he had a fight the other night and had to travel by train the following morning to the east coast... by the time they fought gans fought valiantly but lost to the larger man...

umheard of in this day and age...

[shadeyfizzle]

lightweight great joe gans, P4P great sam langford and featherweight great abe atell...

gans actually went on to fight langford but he had a fight the other night and had to travel by train the following morning to the east coast... by the time they fought gans fought valiantly but lost to the larger man...

umheard of in this day and age...

was that the general consensus within the boxing community at the time the way robinson,armstrong,ali are today???

[talip bin osman]

was that the general consensus within the boxing community at the time the way robinson,armstrong,ali are today???

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294596

you will be amazed about the amount of boxing knowledge over those guys at the history section have...

i have other sources in print i found in a library here in singapore... (its an article from ted sares...)

anyway just dig in some more from previous threads at the history section and pay attention to posters like yogi, k-dogg, kid achilles and thegreatA... excellent posters all...

[shadeyfizzle]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=294596

you will be amazed about the amount of boxing knowledge over those guys at the history section have...

i have other sources in print i found in a library here in singapore... (its an article from ted sares...)

anyway just dig in some more from previous threads at the history section and pay attention to posters like yogi, k-dogg, kid achilles and thegreatA... excellent posters all...

thanks man. doesnt exactly answer my question directly but it's a step in the right direction. It's amazing how many responses my flame threads get when i'm bored with people telling me i dont know anything about boxing or that i'm not a fan of the sport but whenever i make an actual boxing thread it never seems to get past the 1st page.

[talip bin osman]

thanks man. doesnt exactly answer my question directly but it's a step in the right direction. It's amazing how many responses my flame threads get when i'm bored with people telling me i dont know anything about boxing or that i'm not a fan of the sport but whenever i make an actual boxing thread it never seems to get past the 1st page.

your question is quite difficult man!!!

u can have a discussion with monte cox in his gmail account if u chance upon him sometime... great fella... cliff rold answers his email quite often and im sure he can help u too...

[shadeyfizzle]

your question is quite difficult man!!!

u can have a discussion with monte cox in his gmail account if u chance upon him sometime... great fella... cliff rold answers his email quite often and im sure he can help u too...

It's actually a simple question. Just not sure if we have the resources or documentation of it since it's pretty subjective.

Asking who the best fighters are in any given timeframe in the sport's history is simple.

asking who the greatest fighters of all time are is pretty simple since 95% of all boxing historians will come up with a nearly identical top 5 in some form or another.

but i noticed since the consensus top 3 all fought pretty much within the same era I was just wondering who historians regarded as the greatest of all time before any of them were around.