Best I've faced

[_Rexy_]

poor mike

the saddest list of opps ive seen in these ''best ive faced''

four world champions on that list.

[Elroy The Great]

holyfield.

still a sad ''best....''

[Johnwoo8686]

Greatest thread ever.

Also love the fact that 2 of the 4 fighters who beat Mayweather didn't list him in a single category LOL. Proof that Floyd is only good at avoiding a an actual fight.

Hopefully Maidana and Castillo are in here too I'll keep looking, but Oscar and Manny just dumped on Floyd LOL

I'm pretty sure Manny's interview was taken before the Floyd fight. The fact that Floyd not being listed in any of Manny's categories makes you happy just makes you look like a pathetic hater.

[Chrismart]

Roy Jones Jr - May 2017

BEST JAB
VIRGIL HILL: The best jab I think I faced was of Virgil Hill. His jab was the hardest punch he threw. He’d hit you on top of the head every time he threw it, and it was quick on top of that.

BEST DEFENSE
JAMES TONEY: James Toney probably had the best defense of all of them. You couldn’t hit him flush; he was so elusive, the hip movement and the shoulder roll made it very difficult to hit him with a clean shot.

FASTEST HANDS
VINNY PAZIENZA: He had faster hands than most of the guys I fought. He wasn’t powerful because he came up from the lighter weights. He thought he was faster than me, but he wasn’t.

BEST FOOTWORK
ROLLIN WILLIAMS: He had the best foot movement of anyone I faced. He was so hard to hit. It took me five rounds for me to hit him because of his foot movement. The normal punches I threw, I couldn’t hit him with.

BEST CHIN
JORGE CASTRO: Jorge Castro by far. You could hit him with the kitchen sink and he kept coming. I hit him with everything including the kitchen sink and still just kept coming.

SMARTEST
BERNARD HOPKINS: He had a real good ring IQ. He was able to study the first fight and get it right for the second fight and use the IQ to keep it where it was harder to attack the second time.

STRONGEST
MERQUI SOSA: Merqui Sosa was a very powerful guy. You couldn’t push him back; he didn’t give up anything in the ring. I had to get him out of there early. He was very strong and wasn’t planning on going nowhere.

BEST PUNCHER
SOSA: Merqui missed me with a shot that almost buckled my knees. If that had landed it would have been different. I was like, ‘Wow, this guy’s trying to kill you!?I went to work on him after that and got the fight over. Tarver had good punching power, but he didn’t punch harder than Merqui Sosa.

BOXING SKILLS
MIKE McCALLUM: Probably Mike McCallum, the ‘Body Snatcher? Even as an older guy, he was very smart ?had very high-class boxing skills.

BEST OVERALL
TONEY: He had all the tools, he was hard to hit, he could knock you out at any time. He would be right there in your face and you still couldn’t hit him flush

[True That]

Any new Best I Faced articles?

Particularly on the new Hall of Famers Winky and Vitali.

I know Erik did one already.

[True That]

Seriously... Man knows how to take punches. That's the one thing that's sticks out to me watching him fight

It's not surprising that Cotto picked Kamegai for best chin.

Robert Guerrero also picked Kamegai for best chin in his Best I Faced interview with Ring ****zine.

Margarito has been knocked out in his career.

Kamegai has not been knocked out in his career.

[True That]

And no mention of Margarito........

Why would he mention Margacheato?

[True That]

Cotto is saying that Mayorga, who he blew away in 3 rounds, was stronger than Margarito? Chin could be Margarito.


I guess you can't argue with the fighters' own opinion but these lists are sometimes obviously skewed and comical.

Huh? Cotto blew Mayorga away in 3 rounds? Lol, on what planet did this happen on?

Lol, The Cotto-Mayorga fight went to the 12th round bro, that's when it was stopped in the 12th.

[True That]

Roy Jones Jr - May 2017

BEST JAB
VIRGIL HILL: The best jab I think I faced was of Virgil Hill. His jab was the hardest punch he threw. He’d hit you on top of the head every time he threw it, and it was quick on top of that.

BEST DEFENSE
JAMES TONEY: James Toney probably had the best defense of all of them. You couldn’t hit him flush; he was so elusive, the hip movement and the shoulder roll made it very difficult to hit him with a clean shot.

FASTEST HANDS
VINNY PAZIENZA: He had faster hands than most of the guys I fought. He wasn’t powerful because he came up from the lighter weights. He thought he was faster than me, but he wasn’t.

BEST FOOTWORK
ROLLIN WILLIAMS: He had the best foot movement of anyone I faced. He was so hard to hit. It took me five rounds for me to hit him because of his foot movement. The normal punches I threw, I couldn’t hit him with.

BEST CHIN
JORGE CASTRO: Jorge Castro by far. You could hit him with the kitchen sink and he kept coming. I hit him with everything including the kitchen sink and still just kept coming.

SMARTEST
BERNARD HOPKINS: He had a real good ring IQ. He was able to study the first fight and get it right for the second fight and use the IQ to keep it where it was harder to attack the second time.

STRONGEST
MERQUI SOSA: Merqui Sosa was a very powerful guy. You couldn’t push him back; he didn’t give up anything in the ring. I had to get him out of there early. He was very strong and wasn’t planning on going nowhere.

BEST PUNCHER
SOSA: Merqui missed me with a shot that almost buckled my knees. If that had landed it would have been different. I was like, ‘Wow, this guy’s trying to kill you!’ I went to work on him after that and got the fight over. Tarver had good punching power, but he didn’t punch harder than Merqui Sosa.

BOXING SKILLS
MIKE McCALLUM: Probably Mike McCallum, the ‘Body Snatcher’. Even as an older guy, he was very smart – had very high-class boxing skills.

BEST OVERALL
TONEY: He had all the tools, he was hard to hit, he could knock you out at any time. He would be right there in your face and you still couldn’t hit him flush

Robert Guerrero has a Best I Faced interview, I didn't see it on here. I'll post it for you.

Good stuff sir, does Winky Wright have a Best I Faced, also Vitali Klitschko? I know Erik Morales has one, I read his.

Good stuff bro, keep these coming!

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Awesome content, worth the read