What "BOOGYMAN" ever proved legit?

[Larry the boss]

You are Madaina díck licker and will always make up excuses for him
TBE can do anything he wants to. IV shouldn’t be banned in boxing anyway. One of the few sports that it is banned in.

they arnt banned at all in boxing.

[Citizen Koba]

In the history of boxing we have seen so many so called "BOOGIEMEN" but which one ever proved to be a "MONSTER" on the "ELITE" level???

What are you asking - which guys continued blasting folk out at even the elite level? There's a very considerable distance between that question and the one asked in thread title.

It's kinda slippery that one though isn't it... you could say that the guys that got blasted out were by definition less than elite, so... But yeah, in general when any fighter faces guys of a similar level to themselves the KOs are gonna become few and far between, that kinda goes without saying so I'm not really understanding the question. It's almost like you're suggesting Knocking guys out and having elite ability are are two separate and mutually exclusive things instead of one being a consequence of the other... lots of guys can punch hard, but being able to land successfully on a guy who's trained all his life to avoid being hit clean is just as much dependent on skill and ring IQ as being able to sit on the ropes and avoid punches like smoke.

Besides, pretty much all the greats were destroyers, right up to the point they weren't. Even your unbeaten dudes like Floyd or Ward or Calzaghe were knocking dudes out left and right in their earlier days.

[Sparked_26]

...Valero?

What might have been

[Santa_]

Sugar Ray Robinson

Roberto Duran

Antonio Margarito (if you don't think prime cotto was elite then YDKSAB)

[Madison Boxing]

Joe calzaghe.

[_Maxi]

He was 37 when he fought Maidana..name me 5 boxers who were still elite and ranked p4p at 37 and winning every fight

Not everyone could force their opponents to use pillow gloves.

[j0zef]

Two trains of thought - most fighters eventually lose, thus lose their boogeyman status, in that respect, nobody was ever proven a boogeyman. On the other hand, there are many examples of heavily avoided fighters that nobody wanted to fight for a period of time waiting for them to get old.

Historically, we're talking Sonny Liston, Hagler, Pryor and Langford.
More recently, Bernard Hopkins was avoided like the plague until Tito fought him at like 35 or 36. Nobody wanted to fight Rigo in fear of getting schooled for no money. Golovkin couldn't get an elite opponent until he was 36.

[Larry the boss]

Not everyone could force their opponents to use pillow gloves.

still waiting on those names man

[Mammoth]

None so far. Spence is still a boogeyman. let's see where it goes....

[Squ□redCircle34]

Floyd in his prime and George Foreman!