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So we often get threads and chats around who is the worst fighter to make the hall, but who, in your opinion is are the greatest fighters that havent yet been inducted?
Try to pick guys who have been retired a while and have had a few chances to be inducted. If its just 1 or 2 years being eligible then they might have just been unlucky so far with others on the ballot.
Prince Naseem often seems to be the one people call for to get inducted. At one time he held almost all the belts in his class with one being stripped from him due to boxing politics. Several very good wins over a short career, but no signature wins. Only a signature loss unfortunately vs Barrera, which due to him retiring shortly after, his reputation never recovered from.
I also noticed the other day that Cerferino Garcia hasnt been inducted. He is best remembered for losing and drawing with Henry Armstrong, and losing to Barney Ross. But there are plenty of potential HoFers today who have lost to both Pac and Mayweather, and that is the standard of those two fighters. Still has some very good wins on his ledger inc. Kid Azteka, Fred Apostoli, Lloyd Marshall, Aaron Wade, Baby Joe Gans, Bobby PAcho, Al Manfredo and others (I am by no means a boxing historian).
PRobably some much better examples, so lets hear them
Try to pick guys who have been retired a while and have had a few chances to be inducted. If its just 1 or 2 years being eligible then they might have just been unlucky so far with others on the ballot.
Prince Naseem often seems to be the one people call for to get inducted. At one time he held almost all the belts in his class with one being stripped from him due to boxing politics. Several very good wins over a short career, but no signature wins. Only a signature loss unfortunately vs Barrera, which due to him retiring shortly after, his reputation never recovered from.
I also noticed the other day that Cerferino Garcia hasnt been inducted. He is best remembered for losing and drawing with Henry Armstrong, and losing to Barney Ross. But there are plenty of potential HoFers today who have lost to both Pac and Mayweather, and that is the standard of those two fighters. Still has some very good wins on his ledger inc. Kid Azteka, Fred Apostoli, Lloyd Marshall, Aaron Wade, Baby Joe Gans, Bobby PAcho, Al Manfredo and others (I am by no means a boxing historian).
PRobably some much better examples, so lets hear them
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