Comments Thread For: The Quarantine Debates: Carving Out Boxing's Mount Rushmore

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - In a stretch of sans sports radio, it's a go-to time filler. Discussing who belongs on the Mount Rushmore for any given sport. Because whether you squeeze LeBron alongside Wilt, Michael and Magic; drop Messier in with Gretzky, Orr and Howe; or suggest O.J. ought to run with the likes of Brown, Brady and L.T., you're all but guaran...
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[Eff Pandas]

A boxing Mount Rushmore with 2 non-boxers wut the fook?!?!?

And no Ali or SRR or Floyd?!?!

[angkag]

Ali, Pep, Robinson and Amir Khan

[Cigar]

Emmanuel Steward should have been over Dundee, especially if you're talking Dundee post-Ali.

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

has OP caught some new strain of corona, makes you r3t4rded???

Don ***ing King on the ***ing Rushmore what the *** are you talkin about

[HandsofIron]

1. Promoter - Don King
2. Corner Man - Ray Arcel
3. Heavyweight Fighter - Mike Tyson
4. Non-Heavyweight Fighter - Roberto Duran

[Monty Fisto]

A boxing Mount Rushmore with 2 non-boxers wut the fook?!?!?

And no Ali or SRR or Floyd?!?!

He covered why there is no Ali or SRR in the article.

Don King makes perfect sense. You want someone with lots of money and a huge ego to fund all the dynamite costs. Zero principals are also a benefit since you need to renege on a previous contract giving the mountains to the Sioux Indians.

[The Old LefHook]

Fitzsimmons is a halfwit. But I already knew that.

[Sweden2716]

Spot 4..Roy Jones most impressive weight climb , most impressive weight climb should be Duran or Paquiao and Jones beat an old Body Snatcher McCallum, the rest I cannot argue with Steward might have gotten the nod for trainer.

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

He covered why there is no Ali or SRR in the article.

Don King makes perfect sense. You want someone with lots of money and a huge ego to fund all the dynamite costs. Zero principals are also a benefit since you need to renege on a previous contract giving the mountains to the Sioux Indians.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise that a "promoter" deserves as much credit as the fighters, who put their lives on the line every time they step in the ring

Didn't Don King rip off a lot of boxers? We TOLERATE promoters, we don't CELEBRATE them