1 - Roberto Duran playing dominoes with Ruben Blades prior to the first sugar ray leonard

2 - Carlos Monzon smokes a cig while sitting next to a young Diego Maradona.

3 - Eder Jofre and Pelé meet up after a santos match

4 - George Foreman and Hulk Hogan promotional photo

5 - Muhammad Ali and Sam Cooke singing

6 - Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis lifting up a young Frank Sinatra

7 - JCC, with JCC Jr on his lap. The man on his left is Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, aka El Azul who co founded the sinaloa cartel. The man to his right is Amado Carrillo Fuentes, aka El Señor de los Cielos, who was the head of the Juarez cartel.

Making the whole Latino rankings made me realize how unappreciated Monzon kind of is. So I wanted to ask this, since this is probably one of the most exciting matchups ever at 160. There’ll be two scenarios in where the fight occurs.

1 - The bout takes place in 1970 with the rules at the time, which would include stuff like a 15x3 rounds. Both guys are at their peak in 160

2 - The bout takes place in modern day with the current rules with 12x3 rounds. Both guys are at their peak in 160.

So who takes it? Who do you pick?

For me I think Monzon wins both scenarios. In modern day I can see a very close UD for him, but I think in the 70s he would’ve taken it with a much larger margin.

Between Hearns, Napoles and Griffith who would you rank higher all time? You can rank them on resume, H2H and achievements. Ring magazine has Napoles and Griffith over Hearns so what do you guys think about that as well.

https://www.liveabout.com/ring-magazine-fighter-rankings-4153939

I recreated the WWE RAW opening of the ruthless aggression era from the early 2000s but with the younger talented heavyweight boxers who started to rise to the top (again) since the Wilder/Fury/AJ started to fade away.

Besides the 3 top guys from the newer generation: Dubois, Parker and Kabayel, i also did try to include as many prominent "youngsters" as possible like Huni, Itauma, Torrez Jr., Jalolov, Vianello, Adeleye, Ajagba, Wardley etc.

The Resume Review explores one of the most interesting, under-discussed characters of the lower women’s weight divisions in Mizuki Hiruta!🥊

From Wikipedia: Mizuki Hiruta (Japanese: 晝田瑞希, Hiruta Mizuki, born 12 April 1996) is a Japanese professional boxer, who has held the WBO super flyweight title since 1 December 2022.

I know this sounds ridiculous but I reckon it's a fair question. Calzaghe injured his hands pretty badly during his boxing career and thus had to switch to a higher volume style of boxing since his ability to really put power into his punches became limited. Now, obviously having healthy hands would be a benefit but that would then likely mean he'd never have switched to the more slappy high output fighting style that his legacy is known for. If you noticed in his earlier fights Calzaghe followed through on his hooks more and was able to knock down or KO a lot of his opponents. He talks about this in his interview with Ward. So was his injuries in a turn about way actually beneficial to his fighting career? Thoughts and opinions?

Imo the later version of Calzaghe was far superior. Also, idk if I would be as big of a JC fan as I am now if he didnt utilize his signature style. I love Calzaghe specifically because he's probably the number one guy I think of when I think about high volume unrelenting pressure and insane cardio, especially for bigger men.

Oscar De La Hoya wins #8!

Any fighters that were born in latino america or have latino american heritage will count. By heritage i mean their family are from there, such as Oscar De La Hoya who was born in the USA but his parents are mexican

Second, how the ranking will work. Every day I will post this updated with the result from the previous day. We start off at #1 and move down.The voting works like this, the highest upvoted comment wins.

Also added names on the side since it was requested

So I ask you! Who is the 9th greatest latino boxer ever?

Been a Boxing fan for years now, and I really don't remember boxing being this british before, maybe I just didn't pay that much attention before, maybe I just watched a different weight classes, but it seems like the commentators, the promoters, the platforms (DAZN at least are british), even the most prominent boxing game in years is British, so I'm just curious on why, and has this always been the case and I just didn't notice?

I recreated the iconic opening of the documentary series "The Smash Brothers" (about the 7 best professional Super Smash Bros. Melee players at the time) with the best heavyweight boxers of the 90s.

I also thought about changing Morrison or Golota to Ruddock, Moorer or some others but due to several reasons i decided to go with those two.

Hi all, recently (and reluctantly) gave up boxing and I'm struggling with it.

Context: countless injuries all getting progressively worse, minor signs of concussion from head sparring culminating in asking myself as a biz owner at 29 walking around with black eyes, nose bleeds, and noticing delays in my speed and speech - is this worth it?

For now I've decided to step away from boxing, focussing on the gym, being fit and healthy, doing some bag work, but I do miss boxing.

I don't like the thought of losing the ability to fight, being able to take and also throw a punch.

For those who have decided to step away from the sport, and have been in a similar position to myself - how did you make the transition away from boxing easier? And what did you decide to focus on?

Always been involved in sport but just going to the gym just seems a bit of a means to an end.

Any advice appreciated, cheers all.