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Who is the best boxer of all time and why?
I always love this debate. And because I recently discovered (i know, i know) Yahoo Answers I can't wait to hear opinions. I became a boxing fan as a young teenager. Tyson and Sugar Ray were the men when I got into the sport. I own dozens of tapes full of hundreds of the best fighter's fights. But best ever I normally lean toward a Henry Armstrong or Ray Robinson. Willie Pep and Gene Tunney were quite good and not remembered much in these conversations. But, even in our current era, who can argue that a 25-year-old Roy Jones couldn't beat anyone (pound-for-pound) who ever existed? And in the category for 'what could have been', couldn't Ike Ibeabuchi have become the best heavyweight of our time?
I may get a few thumbs down for this but whenever people ask me who the greatest fighter of all time is I have to answer Harry Greb. He is not well known because he died in 1926 and a lot of people on YA don't seem to know about the old time fighters, also there is no fight footage of him. In my opinion though his record is second to none from 1913 to 1926 he fought 299 times, winning 260 of them. He was American Light Heavyweight champion(1922-1923), and World Middleweight champion (1923-1926). By all accounts he was an inexhaustible whirlwind in the ring who never stayed in one spot for a second and constantly threw punches from all angles, he was very tough (only stopped twice in his whole career) and would fight sometimes 5 or 6 times a month against all comers. Although only a Middleweight he would regularly fight heavies, beating some of the top contenders at the time, despite sometimes being 6in shorter and outweighed by 70lbs. He was the only man to beat Gene Tunney and eventually bested 18 future hall of famers. What makes this even more remarkable is that he was blind in one eye from approximately 1921 after an opponent thumbed him in the eye, and towards the end of his career his "good eye" faded to the extent that he couldn't tell his opponents from his handlers sitting in the corner between rounds. Can you imagine a Boxer doing all that today?
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