What do you think is the best way Barrera can fight Fenech? At 122, Barrera tended to stand and trade whereas he relied more on movement as he...
I just can’t see Bobby overcoming Chico’s size advantages, no matter how hard he tries. Corrales by TKO.
No, he was from the Ute tribe - which is short for ‘U take a lot of punches’. Here all week.
Yep, it’s as clear cut a case of ducking as you could ever see.
Yeah, it was meant to be a bit of a jokey thread - hopefully no offense caused.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s much in it - point is, there’s not really a clear standout for the 2010s. I kind of feel no. 1 should just be left...
1. Manuel Ortiz 2. Oscar De La Hoya 3-5: any three from the names already mentioned.
Special mention should go to Gary Russell Jnr for so steadfastly following the old showbiz axiom, ‘Always leave them wanting more’. Though, in...
I believe Henry Armstrong was part Native American. Based on that, it goes: 1. Henry Armstrong (ginormous fucking gap) 2....
Danny Lopez - hardest puncher in featherweight history? I think you can make a comparison between him and Felix Trinidad in his welter years....
Mayweather just takes it for me, then it’s been Ward and Gonzalez. The fact that Pac is probably still top 4 or 5 with a 12-4 record sums it up...
I remember watching that one and, being a huge Barrera fan at that time, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. I just hadn’t realised at...
Here’s one: Hector Camacho could beat Alexis Arguello at 130.
I guess you could look at it as Mosley at 135 being a harder hitting version of Meldrick Taylor and so, yeah, maybe he has the edge from that...
I totally see those two, Benitez in particular. McCallum was a wonderful, but textbook technician. Benitez was almost entirely instinctive and...
Great bit of work from Mario Sanchez with the video quality in 1080. Duran is clearly already in full swing at this point of his title reign.
Is that because I picked Ray Mancini to beat Edwin Rosario in a MM? You’ll be glad to know, I got outvoted 2-to-1 on that in the end. And it...
Here’s another one to try and place - a fighter who was an absolute mainstay of the 1980s: Edwin Rosario. Clearly not top 10, but what about top...
Another tough to rank fighter is Wilfredo Gomez. His peak was in the 70s so he would definitely be higher there (top 10) but he was still in his...
Lower weight guys like Galaxy, Roman, Chitalada and Laciar would be rounding out my top 20. Someone like Brian Mitchell might just miss out but...
Here’s my current top 15 (it will change): Marvelous Marvin Hagler Sugar Ray Leonard Michael Spinks Thomas Hearns Salvador Sanchez Mike Tyson...
My 6-10 are changeable and not set in stone but I have number 6 as Tyson as well and agree with your argument about Tyson over Holmes but Holmes...
I have Tyson at 6 and above Holmes for the 80s but I would have Holmes above Tyson all-time based on his additional work in the 70s, whereas...
My top 5: 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Sugar Ray Leonard 3. Michael Spinks 4. Thomas Hearns 5. Salvador Sanchez After that, it’s tricky - really tricky.
The 80s is so deep that you can make an argument for almost any order after the first three or four names but a top 10 ends up leaving out some...
Duran is the toughest to rank of everyone from the 1980s but I can’t think of two more different fighters from each other than Duran and Chavez in...
I’ve just been putting together a list for the same as part of ESB’s p4p per decade. X, I had the same 5 as you but I switched Hagler and Leonard...
It’s on a very short list in terms of filmed fights. There might have been better that we’ve never seen but I still think that performance would...
Shit, even Carmen Basilio had a better jab than 90% of fighters today and he was considered a brawler back in the 50s.
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