Everybody loves an inventory, or extra precisely, everybody likes to debate an inventory. Boxing promoter Frank Warren, aged 72, has been across the sport for many years, he has labored with so many notable ring greats, and Warren has met some really particular fighters throughout his life, together with the one and solely Muhammad Ali.
Now, chatting with DAZN, with whom the Queensbury head has simply inked a struggle deal, Warren listed his high 5 greatest-ever fighters. And although there are some apparent names right here in Warren’s checklist, some followers might agree with me after I say he has ranked them within the fallacious order.
Right here’s Warren’s high 5:
1: Muhammad Ali
2: Sugar Ray Leonard
3: Sugar Ray Robinson
4: Larry Holmes
5: Carlos Monzon.
Little doubt, all listed fighters are true greats, true legends of the game. And it’s nice that Warren has discovered a spot in his high 5 for Larry Holmes, a heavyweight who has mentioned many occasions himself he’s underrated. And Carlos Monzon, a real terror of a middleweight champion, he too belongs. Or does he? It’s right down to opinion and nothing extra, however perhaps you’d have just a few different fighters ranked instead of Monzon – Roberto Duran, maybe? Or Henry Armstrong? Or Harry Greb? You could possibly go on and on.
It’s potential, nevertheless, that when a fan reads Warren’s checklist, the very first thing they will decide fault with is the rating of Sugar Ray Leonard ABOVE the unique and certainly best Sugar man, Sugar Ray Robinson. Once more, it’s Warren’s opinion right here, and no one else’s, however to my mind-set, Robinson mustn’t solely be ranked above the person who “borrowed” his well-known nickname, however the man born Walker Smith Jr ought to be on the high of the checklist, interval. Above Ali? Ali himself usually mentioned Sugar Ray was the best of all time, above himself even.
You’ll have thought Frank Warren would agree with “The Best” with regards to who deserves to be ranked because the best boxer of all of them.
What do YOU consider Frank Warren’s high 5 checklist?
For what it’s price, right here’s my high 5 best fighters of all time:
1: Sugar Ray Robinson
2: Henry Armstrong
3: Ezzard Charles
4: Sam Langford
5: Roberto Duran.
