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1) Deontay Wilder - Because he's the current HW champion I "fux" with. I don't actually rate Wilder as an ATG, but, I like to believe, like any fan does, and this is the current HW champion I believe in. 50-0 but with more KO % than anyone else ever, then we'll actually talk ATG status. Favorite though? Yes, I don't know what will happen next whereas everyone else I do.
2) Rocky Marciano - So, I don't make it any mystery I am a fan of history and physics. The thing about that is I actually became fond of boxing through those fields. When something just keeps popping up naturally one takes a closer look, and that's really how I became a boxing fan. When looking up statistics on human physical achievement you'd be amazed at how often boxing comes up. Who produces the most amount of energy in the least amount of time? NFL line? Sumo 'Rassler? Nope, boxers from 150-220. It's kind of a physical marvel. Then on the history side of things it kept coming up too. Western style stories, or Gangs of New York style stories, both of them exist in boxing. Who clears out an entire bar for fun? Champions of bare knuckle, duh. Rocky Marciano is the convergence of these two interests personified by one man.
My favorite form of boxing is KO boxing because KO boxing produces unbeaten HW champions. Absolute dominators. Points boxing has never. Who has the biggest bag of tricks in the KO boxing world? Marciano and it ain't even near something that resembles close. Marciano takes the best of the ancient greco-roman techniques, mixes them with forgotten bare knuckles techniques, and finishes the entire assembly with the oldest strategy known to boxing "Just keep punching"
My reaction, even still "Just keep punching? Are you ****ing ****ting me? Okay Glaukos. Look at that ****in' crouch, this guy really does think he's a Spartan....Okay, that's some power....my god, 925ft-lbs? I wouldn't have thought that possible for any human let alone a guy the size of me. Goddamn amazing. Watch him dispatch Harry Matthews and check the man's left, that's shield work their bubba. In a boxing ring.
I like Marciano because I like **** like Siegfried, Saint George and the Dragon, King Arthur, and even Hamlet and ****. I like westerns too, and I'm a sucker for early 19th century gang violence and we all have a fascination with the mafia. Rocky ****ing Marciano, baddest two fisted gunslinger to ever slay a dragon and get made for it.
The 0, well, naturally. The old ways of boxing died because of the market not because of in ring success. sword and shield and bare knuckle produced ten other Marcianos before Marciano. He's just the last unbeaten HW champion of all time, and, he just happens to fight like the guys who did it before him.
Joe Walcott has the biggest bag of tricks in boxing history, Joe Louis, the the longest reign, Moore, the most KOs. Charles was a great prime win, and he absolutely crushed all other potentials before they even made it to title contention. Marciano's got a resume. Points boxers had been champions during weaker eras and still lost. Marciano is alone because he is special. His closest likeness outside of olden times is Wilder.
3) Bob Fitzsimmons owns the record for having retired more fighters than anyone other HW champion ever and has taken more 0's from unbeaten fighters than any other HW champion ever. The first man to win p4p status, and king of the inside game. Ruby Rob could drop ANY HW if they got too close. It isn't often anyone considers this but Bob Fitzsimmons did win the HW championship twice. In a way he is the first x2 champion in HW history. Corbett retired to be an actor after getting paid by Edison to allow Tom to film him fight a local brawler. Corbett was paid well and toyed with the local man until he was ready to be finished and rather enjoyed the experience so he was ready to have more of that. He selected the guys to fight for his vacant title, a tradition that goes back straight to James Figg and continued at least until Louis's retirement. Steve O'Donnell, James Corbett's pupil, vs Peter Maher, the Irish Champion. Peter wins by KO, Corbett awards Peter the title, gives a retirement speech, and ****s off out of boxing.
Peter Maher then challenges Bob Fitzsimmons to a title fight, Bob accepts, and Bob KOs Maher when he gets in close and drives that solar plexus punch in. Bob Fitzsimmons won his first World HW championship title. The Corbett came back to boxing and reclaimed his title without fighting but did go straight to Fitzs, got KO'd and really retired. We skip the original reign of Fitzs because technically Corbett stripped it from existence, but, in reality Fitzsimmons won his title twice making him the first ever two time HW champion and the only man to ever do it during a single authority era.
4) Daniel " The ***" Mendoza is the single most important character to boxing today. Mendoza basically started boxing, before Mendoza we were just tuning up and figuring out. Mendoza brought the other side of the coin. Forever boxing is directly related to sword and shield swordplay. Mendoza took notice of this and updated it with new techniques brought on by dagger and rapier. Sword and shield = punchers. Dagger and rapier = boxers. Damn, that's an impact.
Not only did he single handedly bring in defensive aspects and points based aspects of the game but he also brought in ticket sales for sporting events period, marketing himself through the media, using racial tension to offend the easily offended, and stayed safe while making a lot of money the whole damn time. On top of that he used his position in the gentry to speak to social and political unrest, he used his platform for activism. Mayweather is criticised for lifting Ali's bag up off him....that bag was never Ali's in the first place. Daniel The *** Mendoza invented boxing in 1780. He's also a MW to HW champion like Fitzs and Roy, and he was never actually beaten but rather conspired against.
5) Yankee Sullivan is kind of an anti hero, mid 19th century tavern brawling Irish immigrant badass who was so infamous he'd be used as an example of toxic European culture making its way into the US through immigration sparking America's first ever immigration reform movement. He was a street criminal turned boxer familiar enough with organized crime to know how far he could push them. One of my favorite Yankee Sullivan stories is when he was set to fight John Old Smoke Morrissey, leader of the Dead Rabbits gang. The audience was the dead rabbits, and they were armed, and local gamblers, and there was plenty of betting. Sullivan knew he'd be killed if he actually won the match so instead be battered Morrissey about the ring, made him a bloody mess, and left him a lump of the floor. Yankee then left the ring before the ref could count Morrissey out, it was a 30 count back then. Forcing the ref to call time on Yankee rather than Morrissey. Yanks both preserved his integrity and humbled himself while staring down loaded guns. In the end Sullivan was taken out by a militia. Yeah...a militia. No a man, nor police force, but rather a poorly managed military group.
6) Roy Jones Jr is the only man in boxing history to ever put on the weight of a heavyweight and be successful coming up from middleweight. Everyone else, like D-*** and Fitzs, fought at their regular weight. Their 'moving' up to HW consisted of them announcing they're willing to fight any man at any weight and go for the real championship. Fitzs sometime even weighed less at HW than he did MW
It's a really difficult to put on weight and still perform. There's a lot of caveats to Roy's accomplishment, but, the fact remains he's the only guy in 3k years to do what he did.
7) Evander Holyfield. Four time, four time, four time, four time HW champion of the world. I do not give any ****s about PEDs. Holyfield was always a guy who came with a stellar plan and if it wasn't for him Tyson and Lennox wouldn't have much of a resume. He made the 90s the 90s. Thanks to you Real Deal.
8) George Foreman kind of invented Big Man Game. He is really a masterful boxer and doesn't get enough credit because Ali had superior traits. Before George, guys like Primo and Willard, they just fought like K2. If you're a big fans of the brothers you'd probably like Primo. Foreman's a tactical puncher and was able to adapt his abilities using two very different styles for similar outcomes. There are two Foremans, Young Foreman and Old Foreman and both of them were badass. Old Foreman impresses me more with his mind, Young Foreman gives no ****s and will shove your skull through your candy ass.
9) Joe Louis, if we were talking greatness rather than favoritism he'd top this SOB. Joe Louis is the most efficient HW champ of all time. Watching him box is like watching an orchestra. No over exaggerated movement, no waste of space or time, no over or under doing anything. Everything is just right....and that's it, simply correct. Joe Louis was a bad mother ****er and great to learn from, he is the textbook.
10) Jack Johnson, just gave no ****s about anyone else's opinions and did his thing regardless. Jack was waaay better than the competition of his era, he'd cleared the colored ranks before crossing the colorline then dominated the whites for a while. A nice while. I like a rebel who sticks it to the man. Especially one with morality on his side. Jack Johnson just wanted freedom, anyone can get behind that. He stole his freedom with his fists, and, his mind. Sometimes it's mentioned in anecdotes Johnson invented a wrench. I don't much see people explain the use of Johnson wrench though. He invented an adjustable wrench to tighten and loosen connections on his steam car while rolling down the road so he could outrun the coppers who were trying to arrest him for marrying a white girl. I'm not much for the time travel scenario, as much as I love history I don't really want to live it, but, if it was 1910 and I had to be alive in 1910 I don't reckon I'd want to do anything but hang out at Johnson's club and listen to him play bass while telling jokes and drinking. He had his demons, and plenty of times Jack was unkind or ungrateful, but he was cool as ****. Who travels the world stalking the HW champion? Briggs? That **** was cool! Johnson did it on a level Briggs could only dream of though.
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Introducing the ten unbeaten HW champions:
Marciano
Glaukos
Theaganese
Klietomachos
Melankomas
Lyons
Fearns
Brian
Pearce
Wormuld
I can tell youse about anyone of 'emComment
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1 / Muhammed Ali
2 / Joe Louis
3 / Jack Johnson
4/ Rocky Marciano
5/ Lennox Lewis
6/ Larry Holmes
7/ Wlad Klitschko
8/ Evander Holyfield
9/ Mike Tyson
10 / Jack Dempsey
I tend to go with more historical value then overall abilities . All time greats have a significance about them , I could include Liston and Foreman to but somewhere title defenses have to mean something as well.Comment
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Lmao this guy puts Fury at #1... Lmao u can't make this **** upComment
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Foreman didn't invent the big man game , Johnson and Liston did .Foreman was taught by Liston before he even turned pro and having Wilder at one is a sure way to get laughed off the forum even more and be a clear red flag to stay away from asking any questions they have . Ha1) Deontay Wilder - Because he's the current HW champion I "fux" with. I don't actually rate Wilder as an ATG, but, I like to believe, like any fan does, and this is the current HW champion I believe in. 50-0 but with more KO % than anyone else ever, then we'll actually talk ATG status. Favorite though? Yes, I don't know what will happen next whereas everyone else I do.
2) Rocky Marciano - So, I don't make it any mystery I am a fan of history and physics. The thing about that is I actually became fond of boxing through those fields. When something just keeps popping up naturally one takes a closer look, and that's really how I became a boxing fan. When looking up statistics on human physical achievement you'd be amazed at how often boxing comes up. Who produces the most amount of energy in the least amount of time? NFL line? Sumo 'Rassler? Nope, boxers from 150-220. It's kind of a physical marvel. Then on the history side of things it kept coming up too. Western style stories, or Gangs of New York style stories, both of them exist in boxing. Who clears out an entire bar for fun? Champions of bare knuckle, duh. Rocky Marciano is the convergence of these two interests personified by one man.
My favorite form of boxing is KO boxing because KO boxing produces unbeaten HW champions. Absolute dominators. Points boxing has never. Who has the biggest bag of tricks in the KO boxing world? Marciano and it ain't even near something that resembles close. Marciano takes the best of the ancient greco-roman techniques, mixes them with forgotten bare knuckles techniques, and finishes the entire assembly with the oldest strategy known to boxing "Just keep punching"
My reaction, even still "Just keep punching? Are you ****ing ****ting me? Okay Glaukos. Look at that ****in' crouch, this guy really does think he's a Spartan....Okay, that's some power....my god, 925ft-lbs? I wouldn't have thought that possible for any human let alone a guy the size of me. Goddamn amazing. Watch him dispatch Harry Matthews and check the man's left, that's shield work their bubba. In a boxing ring.
I like Marciano because I like **** like Siegfried, Saint George and the Dragon, King Arthur, and even Hamlet and ****. I like westerns too, and I'm a sucker for early 19th century gang violence and we all have a fascination with the mafia. Rocky ****ing Marciano, baddest two fisted gunslinger to ever slay a dragon and get made for it.
The 0, well, naturally. The old ways of boxing died because of the market not because of in ring success. sword and shield and bare knuckle produced ten other Marcianos before Marciano. He's just the last unbeaten HW champion of all time, and, he just happens to fight like the guys who did it before him.
Joe Walcott has the biggest bag of tricks in boxing history, Joe Louis, the the longest reign, Moore, the most KOs. Charles was a great prime win, and he absolutely crushed all other potentials before they even made it to title contention. Marciano's got a resume. Points boxers had been champions during weaker eras and still lost. Marciano is alone because he is special. His closest likeness outside of olden times is Wilder.
3) Bob Fitzsimmons owns the record for having retired more fighters than anyone other HW champion ever and has taken more 0's from unbeaten fighters than any other HW champion ever. The first man to win p4p status, and king of the inside game. Ruby Rob could drop ANY HW if they got too close. It isn't often anyone considers this but Bob Fitzsimmons did win the HW championship twice. In a way he is the first x2 champion in HW history. Corbett retired to be an actor after getting paid by Edison to allow Tom to film him fight a local brawler. Corbett was paid well and toyed with the local man until he was ready to be finished and rather enjoyed the experience so he was ready to have more of that. He selected the guys to fight for his vacant title, a tradition that goes back straight to James Figg and continued at least until Louis's retirement. Steve O'Donnell, James Corbett's pupil, vs Peter Maher, the Irish Champion. Peter wins by KO, Corbett awards Peter the title, gives a retirement speech, and ****s off out of boxing.
Peter Maher then challenges Bob Fitzsimmons to a title fight, Bob accepts, and Bob KOs Maher when he gets in close and drives that solar plexus punch in. Bob Fitzsimmons won his first World HW championship title. The Corbett came back to boxing and reclaimed his title without fighting but did go straight to Fitzs, got KO'd and really retired. We skip the original reign of Fitzs because technically Corbett stripped it from existence, but, in reality Fitzsimmons won his title twice making him the first ever two time HW champion and the only man to ever do it during a single authority era.
4) Daniel " The ***" Mendoza is the single most important character to boxing today. Mendoza basically started boxing, before Mendoza we were just tuning up and figuring out. Mendoza brought the other side of the coin. Forever boxing is directly related to sword and shield swordplay. Mendoza took notice of this and updated it with new techniques brought on by dagger and rapier. Sword and shield = punchers. Dagger and rapier = boxers. Damn, that's an impact.
Not only did he single handedly bring in defensive aspects and points based aspects of the game but he also brought in ticket sales for sporting events period, marketing himself through the media, using racial tension to offend the easily offended, and stayed safe while making a lot of money the whole damn time. On top of that he used his position in the gentry to speak to social and political unrest, he used his platform for activism. Mayweather is criticised for lifting Ali's bag up off him....that bag was never Ali's in the first place. Daniel The *** Mendoza invented boxing in 1780. He's also a MW to HW champion like Fitzs and Roy, and he was never actually beaten but rather conspired against.
5) Yankee Sullivan is kind of an anti hero, mid 19th century tavern brawling Irish immigrant badass who was so infamous he'd be used as an example of toxic European culture making its way into the US through immigration sparking America's first ever immigration reform movement. He was a street criminal turned boxer familiar enough with organized crime to know how far he could push them. One of my favorite Yankee Sullivan stories is when he was set to fight John Old Smoke Morrissey, leader of the Dead Rabbits gang. The audience was the dead rabbits, and they were armed, and local gamblers, and there was plenty of betting. Sullivan knew he'd be killed if he actually won the match so instead be battered Morrissey about the ring, made him a bloody mess, and left him a lump of the floor. Yankee then left the ring before the ref could count Morrissey out, it was a 30 count back then. Forcing the ref to call time on Yankee rather than Morrissey. Yanks both preserved his integrity and humbled himself while staring down loaded guns. In the end Sullivan was taken out by a militia. Yeah...a militia. No a man, nor police force, but rather a poorly managed military group.
6) Roy Jones Jr is the only man in boxing history to ever put on the weight of a heavyweight and be successful coming up from middleweight. Everyone else, like D-*** and Fitzs, fought at their regular weight. Their 'moving' up to HW consisted of them announcing they're willing to fight any man at any weight and go for the real championship. Fitzs sometime even weighed less at HW than he did MW
It's a really difficult to put on weight and still perform. There's a lot of caveats to Roy's accomplishment, but, the fact remains he's the only guy in 3k years to do what he did.
7) Evander Holyfield. Four time, four time, four time, four time HW champion of the world. I do not give any ****s about PEDs. Holyfield was always a guy who came with a stellar plan and if it wasn't for him Tyson and Lennox wouldn't have much of a resume. He made the 90s the 90s. Thanks to you Real Deal.
8) George Foreman kind of invented Big Man Game. He is really a masterful boxer and doesn't get enough credit because Ali had superior traits. Before George, guys like Primo and Willard, they just fought like K2. If you're a big fans of the brothers you'd probably like Primo. Foreman's a tactical puncher and was able to adapt his abilities using two very different styles for similar outcomes. There are two Foremans, Young Foreman and Old Foreman and both of them were badass. Old Foreman impresses me more with his mind, Young Foreman gives no ****s and will shove your skull through your candy ass.
9) Joe Louis, if we were talking greatness rather than favoritism he'd top this SOB. Joe Louis is the most efficient HW champ of all time. Watching him box is like watching an orchestra. No over exaggerated movement, no waste of space or time, no over or under doing anything. Everything is just right....and that's it, simply correct. Joe Louis was a bad mother ****er and great to learn from, he is the textbook.
10) Jack Johnson, just gave no ****s about anyone else's opinions and did his thing regardless. Jack was waaay better than the competition of his era, he'd cleared the colored ranks before crossing the colorline then dominated the whites for a while. A nice while. I like a rebel who sticks it to the man. Especially one with morality on his side. Jack Johnson just wanted freedom, anyone can get behind that. He stole his freedom with his fists, and, his mind. Sometimes it's mentioned in anecdotes Johnson invented a wrench. I don't much see people explain the use of Johnson wrench though. He invented an adjustable wrench to tighten and loosen connections on his steam car while rolling down the road so he could outrun the coppers who were trying to arrest him for marrying a white girl. I'm not much for the time travel scenario, as much as I love history I don't really want to live it, but, if it was 1910 and I had to be alive in 1910 I don't reckon I'd want to do anything but hang out at Johnson's club and listen to him play bass while telling jokes and drinking. He had his demons, and plenty of times Jack was unkind or ungrateful, but he was cool as ****. Who travels the world stalking the HW champion? Briggs? That **** was cool! Johnson did it on a level Briggs could only dream of though.
OR
Introducing the ten unbeaten HW champions:
Marciano
Glaukos
Theaganese
Klietomachos
Melankomas
Lyons
Fearns
Brian
Pearce
Wormuld
I can tell youse about anyone of 'emComment
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