Favorite boxers of the champions.

[yngwie]

Oscar Dela Hoya's favorite fighter was Alexis Arguello.
Roy Jones Jr. favorite fighter was Salvador Sanchez.
Muhammad Ali's favorite fighter was Sugar Ray Robinson.
Sugar Ray Leonard really admired Robinson and Ali.
Almost every boxer has admired Muhammad Ali, but during the 80's, most of the heavyweights tried to be literally like him in the ring.
Mike Tyson really admired Jack Dempsey, Tyson's boxing knowledge is huge tho and he admired from Ali to Duran, Leonard, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano and Liston.
Howard Davis and Mark Breland became boxers and future olympic champions after they watched... you got it right, Muhammad Ali.
Joe Louis was the idol of Rocky Marciano.
Right now you can see that Ward has a huge respect for Ali, the same goes to GGG to Chavez and Khurtsidze to Tyson.

[BM dnobagaV]

David Price really admires Khan and vice versa.

[NChristo]

Muhammad Ali looked upto and idolized Luis Manuel Rodriguez while they were in the same camp.

James Toney idolized Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore.

Jersey Joe Walcott looked upto Barbados Joe Walcott, shocker.

Jack Dempsey - Non Pareil Jack Dempsey, another shocker.

[iamboxing]

Tyson was also a big fan of Duran and his hero. He got advice from him before his championship fight.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Carl Froch: Used to always mentioned Roy Jones Junior & Nigel Benn as his favorite fighters! but mostly i always remember him during numerous interviews idolizing Roy Jones Junior! (Even in his fighting style, early on in his career he would attempt these wild leaping uppercuts from a distance! they looked Ken or Rhu's uppercut from the retro game Street Fighter!)....