The Greatest of your Generation

[MisterHardtop]

Very interesting idea for a thread and it's great to see some members who rival me in age. Anyway, I've been away over the Christmas holidays so this is a fitting first thread to come back too. The top 10 best who I saw and meet your criteria are (in no particular order, don't want to tax me old brain too much right now):

Ali
Leonard
Duran
Monzon
Hagler
Chavez Sr
Hearns
Foreman
Canto
Holmes

There are so many more, like Foster, Hopkins, Pacquiao, Frazier, Benitez and so on.

[joe strong]

without a doubt lennox lewis...

[lx!!]

Chavez sr
Oscar de la Hoya (sucks how people only think of him as a promoter & forget what a BEAST & how fearless Oscar was in his prime)
Erik Morales
Marco Antonio Barrera
Roy Jones (simply untouchable in his prime)
Felix Trinidad
Manny Pacquiao
Juan Manuel Marquez
Evander Hollyfield
Ricardo Lopez
Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzales

[Sirius Dogon]

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

[soul_survivor]

Very interesting idea for a thread and it's great to see some members who rival me in age. Anyway, I've been away over the Christmas holidays so this is a fitting first thread to come back too. The top 10 best who I saw and meet your criteria are (in no particular order, don't want to tax me old brain too much right now):

Ali
Leonard
Duran
Monzon
Hagler
Chavez Sr
Hearns
Foreman
Canto
Holmes

There are so many more, like Foster, Hopkins, Pacquiao, Frazier, Benitez and so on.

Great list, you seem like a real old timer, what do you think of this gen compared to the others you have seen?

without a doubt lennox lewis...

LOOL Ma *****, you trippin

[Sugar Adam Ali]

In no order

SRL
hagler
hearns
tyson
holyfield
chavez
jones jr
toney
lennox
barrera
manny
floyd
oscar
tito


Those are the ones that stick out in my mind

[soul_survivor]

In no order

SRL
hagler
hearns
tyson
holyfield
chavez
jones jr
toney
lennox
barrera
manny
floyd
oscar
tito


Those are the ones that stick out in my mind

Great list, not sure if I'd have Toney or Mosley or Holyfield (names I've noticed on a few lists) simply cos they are convicted drugs cheats, some on multiple occasions lol.

[M Bison]

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

Sven Ottke or Uzzy Ahmed >>>> all them

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Great list, not sure if I'd have Toney or Mosley or Holyfield (names I've noticed on a few lists) simply cos they are convicted drugs cheats, some on multiple occasions lol.

Mosley i dont rank as high as others,,,

toney and holyfield were already hall of famers before they became drug cheats.....
Holyfield probably started after the moorer loss, and toney is wasnt till he was at heavy,, not trying to make excuses for them, but they early clean years make them great IMO

[soul_survivor]

Mosley i dont rank as high as others,,,

toney and holyfield were already hall of famers before they became drug cheats.....
Holyfield probably started after the moorer loss, and toney is wasnt till he was at heavy,, not trying to make excuses for them, but they early clean years make them great IMO

we don't know how many of those early years were clean though...
With Holy he only got caught via the US sports drugs scandal.

Toney I can give the benefit of the doubt, cos the same tests that found him guilty also had him clean for years. But I've always been of the opinion, that if a fighter is found guilty of PED use, he should be banned for good and all accomplishments erased. Not just boxing but any sport, unless there is a good enough reason.