The Unpopular Opinion Thread

99% of Heavyweights after Dempsey would've beaten the Willard that Dempsey fought even Leon Spinks

Most skilled heavyweight boxers would completely clown Dempsey and most sluggers would take his head off

Prime Ali would handily beat a prime Holmes

Marciano would give Ali his toughest fight

 

In a tightly contested battle, Darth Maul would take Luke Skywalker in a lightsaber duel, and prove he had the greatest potential of the Jedi, not Darth Vader.

 

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****ing hell i bloody hope this is just a **** attempt at a joke, Or you must be a especially dumb brain-donor.

 

I'm not sure if this is unpopular at all but it's fresh in my mind. If the Whitaker of the ODLH fight fought Trinidad he'd have gotten a wide if not embarrassing decision over him and become champion again.

 

It would have been more competitive but Tito still pulls it out though, Pernell fooled the world into thinking the DLH fight was controversial when DLH won it quite clearly to me, Pernell simply wasn't doing nothing but being defensive against DLH and against Tito he would have to be more busy to beat him.

 

Bernard Taylor probably would've taken Juan LaPorte had the two met in '83, or '84.

 

I think Ruben Olivares is a slight bit overrated, especially when compared with other ATG bantams like Jofre, Dixon, Ortiz, and Panama Brown. He may have been the most explosive and visually stunning of them, but I feel he lacked the toughness, resilience, consistency, and longevity of the others. I feel he has flaws that generally get ignored or overlooked, and his losses in and around his prime are too readily excused. I think any high quality bantam who was strong and could fight well on could possibly beat him, or at least give him hell. I would personally favor Zarate, Macias, and Pintor to beat him H2H, although I rate Olivares over them based on greater achievements. I also think Olivares-Zamora would've been a pick 'em.

 

Olivares, prior to the Rose fight and till the time of the third Castillo fight was at his peak..the rest of his career he was on the decline and won whatever he was able to win by memory..

 

He hardly looked "on the decline" or "fighting on memory" when overwhelming Torres and Pimentel, the latter of which was a mere three months before Herrera completely outclassed him.

He was past his peak when he fought Hafey the first time, but not enough to excuse the way he was completely crushed.

The fact is, he consistently had trouble with and/or lost to fighters who could match his strength and skill on the inside, at all stages of his career - ie: Herrera, Castillo, Hafey, Kotey. In any other fighter's case, that would be recognized as a consistent stylistic problem and not just a "coincidence."

 

the lineal title has no value other than for the interest of historians looking for a "pure" trace.

fighter's today don't seem to care about it and it doesn't even have any organisation to it's claim. I'd go as far as to say the "lineal title" today is far more myth than substance,

the man makes the belt and not the other way round, regardless of who held the lineal title and when.

 

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Boxing is ****.

 

Pompey still beats Caesar prime for prime:bart