Fritzie "The Croat Comet" Zivic 158(81)-65-9-10
Manager: spinal tapout
Although Fritzie Zivic is considered one of the dirtiest fighters in the history of boxing, he is also considered one of the best. He was probably most remembered for his upset of the great Henry Armstrong via 15-round decision at Madison Square Garden to become the welterweight champion. In 1941, Zivic won a rematch with Armstrong, stopping him in
the 12th round. But he would lose the crown in his next defense, dropping a 15-round decision to Freddie "Red" Cochrane. Although Zivic fought for another eight years, he never challenged for a world title again.
In all, Zivic met seven future Hall of Famers and nine world champions.
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Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran 103(70)-16-0
Manager: prie$t
Roberto Duran (b. June 16, 1951) is a famous boxer from Panama. He held world titles at four different weights -lightweight (1972-79), welterweight (1980), junior middleweight (1983-84) and middleweight (1989). He was also the only boxer to have fought in five different decades. He finally retired in January 2002 at age 52 (having previously retired in 1998) following a bad car crash in October 2001, with a professional record of 120 fights, 104 wins with 69 KOs. He was nicknamed Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone) when at age 14 he allegedly knocked out a horse with one punch.
Born in Guarare, Panama he had his first professional fight in 1967. After an initial adjustment he won thirty in a row, culminating in his first title bout in June 1972, where he defeated Ken Buchanan at New York's Madison Square Garden for the WBA world lightweight championship. He then made twelve successful defences of his title before giving up the belt in February 1979. Vacating the title was a build up for an attempt at the welterweight title. He fought .....
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"Sugar" Shane Mosley 41(35)-4-0
Manager: jonga
Shane would gain much recognition by becoming the WBC Welterweight Champion when he beat Oscar De La Hoya. Mosley-De La Hoya was a 12 round war, but Mosley won a clear split decision. He ran a successful string of defenses of his Welterweight title, but against three unheralded fighters.
When he finally did step up his competition, it was against former Olympian Vernon Forrest. Forrest with a great jab, and with a hard right hand battered the undefeated Mosley and won a lopsided decision against him, taking Mosley's title. In the rematch, Mosley suffered a similar loss. Mosley moved up to the Light Middleweight division while beating De La Hoya a second time in a controversial decision. Similar to the Forrest fights, Shane would lose back-to-back decisions to Ronald Wright for the Light Middleweight title.
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Henry "Homicide Hank" Armstrong 151(100)-21-10
Manager: MyHandsToWar
Henry Armstrong, whose real name was Henry Jackson, is the only fighter to ever hold world championships in three divisions (featherweight, lightweight and welterweight) simultaneously. As welterweight champion, Armstrong made his mark by successfully defending his title 19 times in less than two years.
Noted boxing historian Bert Sugar ranked Armstrong #2 behind Robinson on his latest Top 100 pound for pound list of all time.Armstrong is also ranked #57 in Ring Magazine's list of the top 100 greatest punchers of all time