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Stick to commentating Teddy. Jimmy McLarnin blew his first title shot. Oops. I have seen, sorry can’t find it on the web, an interview done with him a few years later and he did a lot of backtracking and himming,and hawing about that ranking and if I remember correctly he no longer had RJJ at #1. Not Greb. A boxer of the highest class as well as a puncher, few men match him out-and-out for names on a list. As a professional boxer, Felix made his first impact in 1993 by defeating Maurice Blocker to win the IBF welterweight. 92 - Joe Frazier For all that the other phenoms in boxing history are extraordinary it is Jones who has the appearance of being plugged into a totally different matrix; he was a fighter upon whom gravity seemed not to work the magic that left the professionals with whom he shared the ring earthbound. Roberto Duran has the appearance of a fighter whose peers can be counted on one hand in... #9 Joe Louis (66-3). Innovation, skill, drive, balls, style, impact, and the ability to take a damn hard crash. Obtaining special permission from the Athletic Commission of Minnesota due to “a shortage of opponents in his own class,” Charley Burley proved he was anything but common, stabbing and staving a bewildered Turner to a seventh round TKO, the giant sure he wanted no more of the 70-pound lighter steel-spring rattlesnake in the opposite corner. Tony Canzoneri and Jimmy McLarnin split two savage battles at the Garden in 1936. raxman always makes excellent points— He was a problem nobody needed. But in the all and all of prize fighting…...can any informed fight fan deny Sam Langford his due ??? I will always read the Matt McGrain TOP ONE HUNDRED. But there are still those eighty wins to weigh against a single loss, a loss that came against a fighter who would surprise absolutely nobody were he to appear at #1 in this list, a fighter that Tunney showed great determination, mental strength and brilliance in eventually mastering. He avenged it in utterly devastating fashion two years later by way of a first round knockout in what may be the single most significant prizefight in history, fought close to the eve of the outbreak of war between a black American and Nazi propaganda puppet Max Schmeling (who in reality was a decent, moral man). Differ though I may….I wouldn’t argue with this guy over a beer or two…cuz he has too good a case, I would never propose to challange this list…but ...if there were a top 110…..we could all still be friends. @Matt McGrain Also—one of the few guys to have five decades of fighting and over one hundred fights 50 plus KOs Can you see Manny going in against a Sergio or Andre Ward nah nah. It never occurred to me that Langford would be your number one. My selection as the greatest puncher that has boxed at any weight, it is very possible that the heavyweight capable of beating him in his devastating prime of 1938-1942 had not yet been born. On March 29, 2018 Intimidation can come in many different forms: aggressive body language, rippling muscles, obnoxious trash talk, or the cold stare that sends chills down another’s backbone. The bottom line in this story is that Ali, where he not a favorite of the press and public, could very well have had five losses and only one victory against these two opponents rather than winning four out of six. In Ali, the scales were tipped forever in favor of the gazelle, so far in excess of his contemporaries that he would go untroubled even by lions. #8 Joe Gans (145-10-16; Newspaper Decisions 14-2-4). He retired (briefly) in 1948 as the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Second among featherweights only to Pep, I would have him much higher—at least among the top 10, and probably among the top five. And, despite the loss, he did that. @Eric: I would add that Alì had constantly judges on his side…Frazier II, Norton II and III, Young and Shavers were very very close fights that could have been judged for Ali’s opponents…I agree too matches with Liston were highly suspect…Opposite I think Alì dominated his third fight with Frazier…And anyway no heavyweight has his resume. This, he did, knocking the best fighter on the planet out with a single and legendary bodyshot, “the solar plexus punch,” after fourteen rounds of eating varied heavyweight punches. Both Harry Wills and Jack Dempsey ranked Sam Langford as The Greatest, as did historian and promoter Charley Rose. Frazier beat him in the first fight and in the second battle, Ali kept holding Frazier’s head throughout the entire fight (a foul but never any warnings much less point deductions from the referee) thereby taking away Frazier’s inside fight game, and got the decision. but is seriously no one else seeing the “regional” bias??????

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