Fighters where by you've revisited their career, IE gone back and watched old footage

And Duran was the only one of them to beat Leonard. Was the smallest, and before even having Arcel and Browns tutelage had beaten one of the best super feathers of the era (Kobayashi) and one of the greater featherweights (and one of the most skilled fighters of all time) in Marcel (as great as Benitez IMO)

His lightweight era wasn't the best, but if those fighters Buchanan was better than DeJesus for my money. Sorry to come across as rude but 'not even comparable' is one of the most ignorant statements I've come across in a while. I really respect you as well...didn't expect it ;-)

 

I'm definately going to check out more footage of Wilfred Benitez. Him beating Antonio Cervantes at just 17 for his first world title is pretty damn amazing.

 

Gatti, Hearns, Morales. Not that I thought any of these were bad to begin with, but looking back over their careers again, heck they were good.

 

Duran > leonard

 

Watch him getting knocked silly by Bruce Curry and being saved by iffy judging.

Better still, watch him against a Welterweight of the highest caliber; Carlos Palomino :good

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHATIJ5zpJE[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUCahYMMIl8&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiO21U0hHL4&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENuhP25epU&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHY8ozNNYs&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfsqb5k3zk&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0_Eo2-10A&feature=related[/ame]

 

Joe Louis. Saw a biography on him and was interested enough to watch some previous fights.

He had great skills and adaptability. The best P4P, in my opinion.

 

I was way more impressed watching Ali's whole career than I was from just his "Big" fights. He really didn't have power, so every fight was like a display of SICK intangibles over and over and over. I feel like his career just went on forever, in an era when there was really only one champion.

Also impressed with Billy Conn, I didn't expect an early fighter to have that complete arsenal of movement and combinations.

Benitez, alas, seemed better when I was a kid. When I rewatched his fights, while his head movement and slipping were great, his offense was BORING. He made every fight boring in a way Pernell did not. It's a shame that he wound up with brain damage, he seemed like a class act even if he wasn't an exciting fighter. Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and Duran are all as AWESOME as I remembered, its sick to think of an ex welter having 1st round kos at light heavy, several of them, and beating an undefeated light heavy champ. While he had no shot at cracking the current middleweight kingpen. Awesome era. Pryor was amazing too, and Arguello's climb through the weight classes was something else. Move up, fight the champ or the top two guys, take the title, move up, fight the champ or the top two guys, take the title, until he met Pryor. Awesome way to run a career, this doesn't happen every day.

Also, matchmaking would regularly put two undefeated guys against each other early in the career - so Camacho at 14-0 was fighting guys who were like 19-0 or 24-1 - they had aggressive match making that made the cream of the crop rise.

 

Hagler,Barrera(pre-Hamed) with Duran a tad behind.A lot of the Duran fights I wanted to see were not available at the time I looked.I was a Leonard fan so it took me a while to appreciate just how good Marvin was.I locked onto Hearns quite early so was always aware of his quality.
Much as I hated the guy I was impressed with Camacho.He really was good in the early days.
McCallum and Azumah Nelson were good to discover.Didn't get Ricardo Lopez till late in the day either.
This is one of the joys of Boxing.There are so many undiscovered treasure troves to find and enjoy.There are many I liked and followed but many more I didn't for various reasons(age,dislike,rivalries etc) yet found discovering them exhilarating.