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What are your favorite boxing nicknames?

capt.jeepman: Here are some of mine:
Iran Barkley “The Blade”
Aaron Pryor “The Hawk”
James Toney “Lights Out”
Cleveland Williams “Big Cat”
Archie Moore “The Mongoose”
Nigel Benn “The Dark Destroyer”
Ezzard Charles “The Cincinatti Cobra”
Donald Curry “The Lonestar Cobra”
Thomas Hearns “The Hitman/ Motor City Cobra”
Ricky Hatton “The Hitman”
Jake Lamotta “The Bronx Bull/ Raging Bull”
John Mugabi “The Beast”
Mike McCallum “The Body-Snatcher
Maurice Blocker [...]

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Who are the top boxing heavyweights of all time?

illinoisstomp: Think out the box. If you put Tyson or Lennox Lewis in top 10 please, please explain: Side Note Sugar Ray Robinson and Floyd Mayweather might be the greatest all around boxers of all time
1. Jack Johnson
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Rocky Mariciano
4. Joe Louis
5. Larry Holmes
6. George [...]

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sugar ray leonard vs hill / williams?

maurice: if leonard had taken on virgil “quicksilver” hill or “prince” charles williams in or around november ‘88, instead of donny lalonde (bearing in mind they would have had to make 168), what would have been the outcomes?

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if i could i would promote this fight card and would you buy it ?

mrwrightnight: i would have the following bouts on my card
bout1-nate campbell v.s baby bull diaz rematch
bout2-winky wright v.s kelly pavlic
bout3-andre burto v.s cotto
bout4-hopkins v.s glen johnson
main event-mosley v.s manny pacman

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Was Mike Tyson overrated or was he an all-time great Heavyweight?

Jeff Murdoch: There is always hatred towards this polarizing man Mike Tyson. He defeated some pretty good fighters when he was a champion and he did not discriminate. Trevor Berbick, Tony Tubbs, Tony Tucker, Bonecrusher Smith, Pinklon Thomas, Carl “the Truth” Williams have all tasted defeat at the hands of da’ Baddest Man on the [...]

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Was Charley Burley actually better than Ray Robinson?

jazbac: It is well known that Robinson ducked Burley. So did Jake LaMotta and supposedly Marcel Cerdan.
Burley beat the larger Archie Moore as well as a few heavyweights. Burley lost two decisions to Ezzard Charles - maybe the most underrated boxer in history! Burley/Robinson - who wins? Why?
I forgot to say ‘the larger’ Ezzard Charles.
Don’t [...]

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Of all the “lost heavyweights” of the 1980s, who was the best?

key: Greg Page, James Broad, Tony Tubbs, Michael Dokes, Pinklon Thomas, Tim Witherspoon, Carl Williams, Bonecrusher, Trevor Berbick, Gerry Coetzee; Take Tyson and Holmes out of the equation and bracket these guys on their best nights, who comes out on top?

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Sugar Ray Robinson against Ezzard Charles, who would win?

The Duke: Ezzard Charles started as a middleweight , both fighters in their prime as middleweights

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A good question was asked by ACEMAN a few days ago, but I didn’t get a chance to answer, this is how I think?

gannoway: the 80’s heavyweights would match up with today heavyweights. Except for Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson, they are pretty evenly match up. Agree or disagree?
Wlad Klitscho vs Larry Holmes
Samuel Peters vs Mike Tyson
Vitali Klitscho vs Gerry Cooney
Nikolai Valuev vs Tony Tucker
Sultan Ibragimov vs Tony Tubbs
Ruslan Chagaev vs Tim Witherspoon
Evander Holyfield vs Pinklon Thomas
Hasim Rahman [...]

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