Two Galaxy brothers and a time machine - How do they day in the modern age?

Both Khaosai and Khaokor Galaxy were world titlists (At the same time actually) that accomplished plenty back in the early to mid 80's. The slightly smaller brother, Khaosai, would end up with a much more flattering resume of 47-1 with a surreal 19 title defenses over 7 years in the super flyweight division. Reminds you of the record of a certain heavyweight slugger by the name of Rocky Marciano, who actually had a career knockout percentage of 88%... just 3 percent higher than the heavy hander Khaosai's 85%.

His twin brother didn't pick up boxing until a few years after Khaosai, and spent less time in the sport. But, you can actually say that Khaokor faced a much superior level of talent in his shorter time in the sport, with names like Wilfredo Vasquez, Sung Kil Moon 2x and Luisito Espinosa. You could even go as far as to say Khaokor possess the supeior single win between the two brothers, though obviously not the consistency or longevity. I'm not sure how much blame can be put on Khaosai for never having the big names on his resume, the super flyweight division was something of a barren wasteland of talent at the time, but the resume I'm making this thread is actually because of the recent resurgence of the division into a respectable, deep, and highly competitive one.

So, how do they both do if their careers start, say, sometime in the past 25 years or so? Does Khaosai rattle off defense after defense or has the talent pool expanded too far for a fighter to dominate the division again like he did?

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Do you feel they would both be legitimate P4P stars, would only one of them have that kind of ceiling... Love to see some more discussion regarding these guys, the board is pretty dead when it comes to talking about the lower weight classes of the 80 to the modern day.

 

Well, I don't mean so much the HBO or magazines propped up perceptions of P4P lists... I'm more talking about it in the sense of sheer accomplishment, the way fans talk about fighters like Langford, Armstrong, Pacquiao and Chocolotito. Having epic successes over multiple weights classes, achieving greatness.

 

I've heard about it and seen said knockout before. Definitely is a pretty strange one. Maybe it had to do with the extreme weight cutting most Thai fighters of the time put themself through? He could have been a dead man walking before he ever even stepped into the ring.

Lucas Matthyse actually had a really weird delayed knockout against another Thai fight just a few weeks ago, off of a hard jab actually.

 

Also, Espinosa was a deadly puncher despite his somewhat deceiving knockout ratio... He avenged knockout losses against Alejandro Gonzalez with an equally devastating KO of the usually granite bearded Mexican. Just completely separated him from his senses. Kevin Kelley unloaded his full arsenal and then some and barely knocked Gonzalez down.

In other fights he lost, such as the Israel Contreras fight, he had his guy down multiple times and badly hurt with his sharp, accurate punching before his own durability became an issue. You also have him knocking out Raul Perez in one, and the usually teak tough Kennedy McKinny in just two brutal rounds... And this is right after McKinny overcame the firepower of Junior Jones and took a full fights worth of abuse before finally succumbing to one of the best fighters in the world in the time in Barrera.

He could whack. Great combination of power, punch placement, timing, power in both hands, he had just about everything offensively.