Most entertaining fighters of all time.

[Lazer LXXVII]

Most entertaining fighters of all time.

Who do you think are the most entertaining fighters of all time? And by this i mean real people, not fictional, of any type of fighting (boxing, any type of MMA, wrestling, etc).


1) Fedor Emelianenko, this guy is a human tank. He will take punishment for a very long time, until he creeps up out of nowhere with a deadly submission. And his punching power is completely brutal. Plus he is an enigma, he looks like a short Pillsbury Dough Boy with some mass to him, he can take down the biggest and baddest fighters, and he never talks trash or brings an opponent down. He is an amazing sportsman, its basically like a pure Christian in one of the most violent sports today.

2) Mike Tyson, in his prime of course. He was full of aggression and rage, sometimes watching his early fights was like watching animals fight through their instincts. He had some much fire and aggression in him.

3) Kimbo, but only his street fights, his few professional MMA fights are not too impressive. He is another example of a tank, can take a ton of punishment and still go on, and he also has a brutal punch.


What do you guys think?

 

[AeroJonesy]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

You ruled out Rocky, so I got nothing.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

Posted FTW!
Gorgeous George (the old one though the new one is nice looking as well)
Muhammad Ali and James Brown acknowledged that their own approach to flamboyant self-promotion was influenced by George.

Gorgeous George was the great showman of the 1940s and '50s, one of the first superstars of TV. His long hair was dyed platinum and marcelled into myriad curls, his squat body encased in garish robes.
The Gorgeous One--a.k.a. The Human Orchid and The Sensation of the Nation--invented the loudmouthed, attention-seeking persona that permeates today's sports. Not one of the top-tier NFL celebrators SI polled recently had heard of him. But if George, who died in 1963, is looking down, he must be one proud papa.
Before George, born in Nebraska in 1915, sports stars were heroes--never villains or "heels," in wrestling parlance. They were tough, modest and short-winded, like Lou Gehrig or Joe Louis.
Gorgeous was a diva in every gesture and syllable. Other grapplers wore plain, dark trunks, black shoes and ratty old robes; George wore pink satin, silver lame, lace and ermine. He pulled up to arenas in purple Packards and big Cadillacs. Pomp and Circumstance ("...which would again be used some 40 years later by Randy "Macho Man" Savage. ) blared over P.A. systems as he strode to the ring, and before he deigned to place his dainty white-shod feet on the mat, his "valet" Jefferies, a Jeeves-ish character in tails, would use a spray gun to mist the floor with perfume. Jefferies would then remove the gold-plated pins holding the Gorgeous curls in place, and the wrestler would toss them to women in the audience. (Scuffles were common.)
During the match George would kidney-punch and eye-gouge, then hide behind the ref. Incensed, the audience, playing the same role as outraged NFL fans do today, rained jeers down on him. "You're ignorant peasants," George informed them. "Beneath contempt."
His credo was "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!" This flamboyant image and his showman's ability to work a crowd were so successful in the early days of television that he became the most famous wrestler of his time, drawing furious heel heat wherever he appeared.
It was with the advent of television, however, that George’s character exploded into the biggest drawing card the industry had ever known. With the networks looking for cheap but effective programming to fill its time slots, pro wrestling’s glorified action became a genuine “hit” with the viewing public, as it was the first program of any kind to draw a real profit. Consequently, it was Gorgeous George who brought the sport into the nation’s living rooms, as his histrionics and melodramatic behavior made him a larger-than-life figure in American pop-culture.
His first television appearance took place on November 11, 1947 (an event that was recently named among the top 100 televised acts of the 20th century by Entertainment Weekly) and he immediately became a national celebrity at the same level of Lucille Ball and Bob Hope (who personally donated hundreds of chic robes for George’s collection) while changing the course of the industry forever.
No longer was pro wrestling simply about the in-ring action, but George had created a new sense of theatrics and character performance that had not previously existed. Moreover, in a very real sense, it was Gorgeous George who single-handedly established television as a viable entertainment medium that could potentially reach millions of homes across the country (in fact, it is said that George was probably responsible for selling as many TV sets as Milton Berle).


http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1114630/index.htm

The 1951 Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon Bunny Hugged featured the one-shot character "Ravishing Ronald", modeled after Gorgeous George. Musical performers such as Liberace, Little Richard, Elton John and Morris Day show signs of the George meme. Some consider George to have been an early advancer of camp.
The 1978 motion picture The One And Only starring Henry Winkler was loosly based on his career.

You Youngins may not have heard of him before but...
You Can't Touch him for the Title of Most entertaining fighter of all time.
http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/wrestlers/halloffame/georgebio.html

Just to complete or defeat the total ownership of the thread - here's one for AJ's comment.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1909206

 

[Darkflight]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

The most entertaining fighter? Hmmmm..... probably F16, since it's the only fighter I have seen in real life. And the norwegian pilots like to fly through valleys at high speeds. :crazyeyes:

 

[plasmo]

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I'd agree with all 3 of Lazer's. I like Fedor because he never shows emotion; just shows up, does his job, and leaves. All business. And Kimbo was always at least a sportsman in his fist fights, unlike 99% of the cell-phone captured fights between people on the streets who keep kicking opponents who are knocked out and such.

Alexander Karelin for the same reason as Fedor; he was just a monster. It's pretty hard to actually scare your opponents in an Olympic event, but he did, especially when he would toss people around like lightweights. The loss to Gardner was a new-rule technicality that had no bearing on the reality of wrestling, so bah.

Royce Gracie. Sometimes a bit boring if you're not into the technical aspects of grappling, but he also went in to do what he had to while showing no emotion. Anyone who can just sit there calmly while someone's breaking your arm has my respect, and that was quite entertaining.

 

[Dirty_Zulu]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

1. Crocop - The only one that can say "right leg will sent you to the hospital, left leg will send you the cementary". The power behind his kicks does not diminish as the fight goes on. He's KO Silva and Emelienko later in the fight with a single kick to the head. I believe The Best Damn Sports Show (?) have ranked 3 of his KOs by kicks in the top ten best KOs ever. His punch has broken the collar bone of Bob Sapp. He's rumored to fight Randy Couture in UFC 99.

2. Wanderlei Silva - Soccer kicks and stomps on a down opponent during his PrideFC makes him quite entertaining. His KO of Sukuraba with the reach advantage was classic. He's probably lost half of his effectiveness in UFC since soccer kicks and heel stomps are not allowed. If UFC allowed him to hold onto the cage and stomp his opponents, he'll be top in his weight class.

3. Chuck Lidell -- His KO power from retreating, from off balance, or from the wicked over hand right are what makes this guy so fun to watch. And who can forget him using Tito Ortiz as a punching bag. Total classic.

4. Fedor -- He's beaten the best: Crocop, Minotauro, Arlovski, and Tim Silvia. Three of them were former UFC heavy weight champs. He submitted Silva with a guillotine. He KO Arlovski in his last fight with a punch. He is considered pound for pound the best MMA fighter in the world. UFC will never have him.

 

[TheOgreMan]

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I like seeing Jackie Chan beating the crap out of people with everyday objects: chairs, strings with weights, whatever is close, etc. That's entertaining.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

I like seeing Jackie Chan beating the crap out of people with everyday objects: chairs, strings with weights, whatever is close, etc. That's entertaining.

:thumbup: I'd give him the #2 spot after Gorgeous George, and the #1 spot among those living.

 

[Galabab]

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For me theres nobody like Fedor.
When i watch him fight im super nervous! Im always afraid he coould lose but he never does!

 

[Dawnmaster]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

Well, I'd have to say Kakarot, but fictional wasn't allowed so...

 

[xtravaller]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

I like seeing Jackie Chan beating the crap out of people with everyday objects: chairs, strings with weights, whatever is close, etc. That's entertaining.

Haha, that would be very entertaining. I'd pay to see that.

 

[jimmyboy]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

In no order:

Muhamed Ali
Sugar Ray Leonard
Hit man Hearns
Mike Tyson
Pachiao

Sakuraba
Andy Hug
Anderson Silva
Koga

 

[Dondrei]

Re: Most entertaining fighters of all time.

Little Mac.