Boxing snobbery

Do you suffer from it? Or know anybody that has?

My Dad is always telling me that there ain't and never will be a man alive that could beat the Great Mohammed Ali. Even though they did!

He is always waxing lyrical about how good Sugar Ray Leonard was and how nobody could live with him in his prime.

Apparently Roberto Duran was the hardest fighter that ever lived..no arguments!

The heat beat Barry McGuigan and nothing else.

I could go on....

Boxing snobbery, does it exist?

Cheers guys.

I wouldn't call it snobbery, I'd call it our own blinkered view. Who is your favorite fighter of all time?

RatBoy66 wrote:I wouldn't call it snobbery, I'd call it our own blinkered view. Who is your favorite fighter of all time?

From what I have seen with my own eyes it's Floyd Mayweather...

But this is the thing...

In 20 years time my own son could say its ****** and I'd disagree because I'd be stuck in the past like a lot of the old folk are today.

Ten years ago I'd have said it's Roy Jones Jr but that's probably as far as I'd consciously go back.

I am in no way a boxing historian but I can only tell what I have seen..which probably makes me a snob!

I am 22. Ask me this question again in my 40's!