Self explanatory. What would say are the five best peaks in boxing history? I would say, in order: 1. Mid-40s-to-early 50s Robinson 2. Mid-to-late 70s Duran 3. Mid-to-late 90s Jones 4. Mid-60s Ali 5. Early-80s Leonard
True. Maybe 5 honorable mentions then. My 5 HMs would be: Late 30s/early 40s Louis Mid-to-late 40s Charles Early-to-mid 70s Monzon Early-to-mid 80s Hagler Late 80s/early 90s Whitaker
Tito Trinidad - Mid 90s to early 2000s Wilfredo Gomez- Late 70s to early 80s Pernell Whitaker- Late 80s to early/middleish 90s Roy Jones- Mid 90s to early 2000s Floyd Mayweather- Late 90s to mid 2000s I tried to include guys that weren’t mentioned.
A bit off topic, but how was ali patterson viewed? Yeah Floyd reputation was probably way down after rhe 2 listons destructions, but he reeled a few good wins afterwards
I'd have to say George Foreman..... 2 losses, one of them to The Greatest and other one a disputed loss to a spoiler. Beat Frazier twice, Norton, Wepner, LeDoux, Lyle, Chuvalo.
Also regards Foreman:- Ali absolutely ducked him afterwards. Guy was fighting Richard Dunn and some guy called The Lion of Flanders rather than rematch Foreman.
I believe that had Ali not been banned he'd have have likely been far less fresh than he was by 1974.