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These are the first ten that came to mind.

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Harry Greb
3. Charley Burley
4. Tony Zale
5. Sandy Saddler
6. Stanley Ketchel
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Henry Armstrong
9. Willie Pep
10. Sam Langford

Who’s on your list?

 

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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 23 Jun 20 1.24am

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle


These are the first ten that came to mind.

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Harry Greb
3. Charley Burley
4. Tony Zale
5. Sandy Saddler
6. Stanley Ketchel
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Henry Armstrong
9. Willie Pep
10. Sam Langford

Who’s on your list?


Love it!

By wish you had seen, are we talking live or live on TV?

 


"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

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Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle


Love it!

By wish you had seen, are we talking live or live on TV?

Both ideally! They all fought other great fighters as well. I find Charley Burley very interesting and Greb was just a machine, a middleweight fighting heavyweights?, but they were all great in their own way.
There are obviously many others - these were the ones that came to mind who were before my time.
I was just curious about who others would have.

 

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The Great John L.

Obviously.

 


Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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Apollo Creed

 


Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

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Noel "I don't get paid no overtime" Quarless.

Edited by YT (24 Jun 2020 4.19pm)

 


Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

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I have seen Robinson-Pep-Saddler-Zale, so can I add four.

Carpentier(France)
Stevenson ( Cuba) only partially seen.
Johnson ( USA)
Fitzsimmons (UK)

 

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Freddie Mills.

 

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Another is Jock McAvoy. There’s a pretty good biography available from Amazon but not much film of his fights.

 

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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 24 Jun 20 7.29pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle


These are the first ten that came to mind.

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Harry Greb
3. Charley Burley
4. Tony Zale
5. Sandy Saddler
6. Stanley Ketchel
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Henry Armstrong
9. Willie Pep
10. Sam Langford

Who’s on your list?


Very good list indeed.

Personally I always wished I’d seen more of the British fighter from the seventies, the guys like Kaylor and Christie who were the reason I started fighting.

These days we are spoilt as fans and can pretty much see every fighter.

 


"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

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Chris Finnegan

 

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Originally posted by glazedallover

Chris Finnegan

I saw him chuck a bloke out when he ran the Walmer Castle in Peckham.

 

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