Best fighters in the original 8 weight classes

Lightweight is a tough one, so many to choose from, I had Gans down but changed it.

As for Bivins it's more of a personal choice, been reading a lot about him lately and I'm a big fan.

 

yeah and he beat some really great boxers in Moore, Charles, Burley and Marshall as well as solid world level boxers in Lesnevich, Maxim and Savold to name a few. Severely underrated boxer in my eyes.

 

Maybe the odd slightly different name or two for consideration. Not to say that the choices are entirely defendable.

Heavy: Louis. Hon mentions to Ali, Holmes and Liston.

Light heavy: Charles. Hon mentions to Conn, Langford and John Henry Lewis.

Middle: Monzon. Hon mentions to Greb, Holman Williams and Mike Gibbons.

Welter: SRR. Hon mentions to Rodriguez, Gavilan and Burley.

Light: Leonard. Hon mentions to Ortiz, Gans and McFarland.

Feather: Pep. Hon mentions to Saldivar, Driscoll and Armstrong.

Bantam: Jofre. Hon mentions to Dixon, Zarate and Harada.

Fly: Canto. Hon mentions to Lynch, Perez and Chang.

 

All of those mentions are completely reasonable Ribs.

If I was including Light Fly Chang would be up there. Technically he should've been Lineal Flyweight champ anyway, so yeah, no composite there.

J.H Lewis: Top 10 without a doubt.

Gibbons: Yes, yes, yes. Same goes for Williams.

Packey: Damn right. Certainly a lock for te upper tier of P4Pers.

Rodriguez: A top ten lock for Welter and Middle IMO.

 

My favourite poster :bowdown

When he ****ing posts :twisted:

You done much researching on Luis Manuel Rodriguez yet Vano? Knowing what you like you'll be highly impressed.

My Encyclopedia entry on him is a good start, but entry level stuff. ****ing insane fighter.

 

Yeah, he definitely got the short end of the stick against Griffith. Clearly his superior IMO (and most people's opinions!)

Middle and Welter resume: ****in' stacked mate.

 

That's fine, it is with anyone, but LMR is one of my faves so no probs.

 

:bowdown Here Flea, you can have one of these in return mi old mucker. I think I might plagiarize Vano's idea and start a 'best British fighters in the original 8 weight classes'. See who people come up with.