The Greatest of your Generation

[soul_survivor]

So this is a question I've been wondering about, of all the fighters you guys have seen in your life time: has to be guys you've seen fight live or on TV/PPV etc who fought in your own lifetime who you have a clear memory of. For example, I was very young when Whitaker and Chavez ruled the roost and the first clear memories I have of them are when they were post-prime and losing to guys like Oscar. So fighters like that can't be ranked as highly, as I only saw them as faded boxers. Understand the rules? Great.

So rank your top 10 and why u have it like that.

Mianly done this cos I know there's a lot of guys who are on this forum who may have watched boxing in the golden age and quite a few who have started watching in the Pac/May era. So here goes:

Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacquiao
Felix Trinidad
Roy Jones Jr
Floyd Mayweather
Oscar de la Hoya
Lennox Lewis
Marco Antonio Barrera
Erik Morales
Naseem Hamed

[Mike D]

Ali Raymi
Sutherland (Brian)
Butterbean
Don Cheadle in Out of Sight

[niceyboo3]

So this is a question I've been wondering about, of all the fighters you guys have seen in your life time: has to be guys you've seen fight live or on TV/PPV etc who fought in your own lifetime who you have a clear memory of. For example, I was very young when Whitaker and Chavez ruled the roost and the first clear memories I have of them are when they were post-prime and losing to guys like Oscar. So fighters like that can't be ranked as highly, as I only saw them as faded boxers. Understand the rules? Great.

So rank your top 10 and why u have it like that.

Mianly done this cos I know there's a lot of guys who are on this forum who may have watched boxing in the golden age and quite a few who have started watching in the Pac/May era. So here goes:

Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacquiao
Felix Trinidad
Roy Jones Jr
Floyd Mayweather
Oscar de la Hoya
Lennox Lewis
Marco Antonio Barrera
Erik Morales
Naseem Hamed

I started being a boxing head in the 90's, so i will go:

Mayweather
Mosley
Hamed
Erik M.
Roy Jones
Tyson
Oscar de la hoya (people forget how good he really was)
Felix Trinadad
Sweet Pea
M.A.B

With Mosley having the most potential when i started watching. Didn't turn out that way but ohh well.

[jas]

These are my greatest of my generation:

Dutch boy gym - unbeaten 43-0. Record speaks for itself.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hum...8222&cat=boxer

Ali raymi - 20-0 with 20 1st round knockouts vs only unbeaten fighters. Need I say more?

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?cat...uman_id=561186

Audley Harrison- Olympic gold medalist. Last time I checked, they don't give them out like leaflets. Professional heavyweights like Frazier, foreman and ali are all Olympic gold medalists. He's not in bad company.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?cat...human_id=44026

Reggie Strickland - over 250 fights - that must be a record. Has fought people like Randall Bailey, one of the biggest p4p punchers in history.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hum...4741&cat=boxer

[FromBA]

I started to follow boxing when I was ten years old. Here is my personal ranking, not thinking who was the best, but who I have appreciated most for different reasons:

Carlos Monzón
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman (in the 70s)
Tommy Hearns
Víctor Galíndez
Roberto Durán
Marvin Hagler
Juan Martillo Roldán
Joe Frazier
Evander Holyfield

[jas]

Bhop
Rjj
Floyd
PAC
Lewis
Holyfield

[IronDanHamza]

So difficult, here's what mine would likely be;

1. Roberto Duran
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Ray Leonard
4. Alexis Arguello
5. Carlos Monzon
6. Roy Jones Jr
7. Pernell Whitaker
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Marvin Hagler
10. Tommy Hearns

Others- Napoles, Griffith (Passed prime) Liston (Was very young when he was Champion, barely remember it), Chavez, McCallum, Foreman, Frazier, Benitez, Mayweather, Pacquaio, Hopkins, Gomez, Sanchez, Nelson, Canto.

I'm sure there's others I've forgotten but I think that will be my Top 10.

[dc3383]

Roy Jones
Floyd Mayweather
Lennox Lewis
Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacqouia
Andre Ward
Juan Manuel Marquez
Felix Trinidad

[Scary]

Hopkins
Pacquaio
Floyd
Evander
Tyson

[HarvardBlue]

In no particular order:

Pernell Whitaker
Aaron Pryor
Roy Jones Jr
Marvin Hagler
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Julio Ceaser Chavez Sr
Mike Tyson
Manny Pacquiao
Bernard Hopkins
Juan Manuel Marquez