Mike Tyson would beat Wilder right now with 6 weeks of training in 1 minute.

So says Jeff Fenech along with some other hard hitting views.

Duran would be a 10 time world champ in the current era.

80's and 90's boxers are a class above the current.

Duran, Leonard, Hearns, Chavez and Jones would be too good.

Strength and conditioning sessions are taking the edge off current fighters.

Guys now can't last or fight at pace.

Fury, Crawford and Inoue are the top 3 fighters today.

 

'Mike Tyson would beat Deontay Wilder in one round' - Jeff Fenech

Current day Mike Tyson would beat Deontay Wilder, and Roberto Duran would be a 10 time world champion if he was boxing today.

That's the view of former three-time world champion Jeff Fenech, who says they don't make boxers like they used to.

Fenech, who trained Tyson towards the back end of Iron Mike's career, says the boxers of the 1980s and '90s were a class above today's current crop of fighters.

"When Deontay Wilder knocked out (Luis) Ortiz, there was hardly a punch thrown in the fight," Fenech told Sporting News.

A rough-nosed brawler who could match it with anyone in his day, Fenech prefers the up-tempo, all-out style of the old timers over the more calculated approach we often see today.

So, what changed?

"I don't know when it changed, but I look at these guys doing their strength and conditioning session in the day and I think that takes the edge away in the fight and as a fighter," he said.

"You want to have all that energy and strength preserved for when you box.

"That's when you want to be at your best.

"Ray Leonard and everybody else, they didn't do all that stuff during the day and they were able to fight 15 rounds at an amazing pace.

"These guys do all that and they still can't throw punches, and they still can't last or fight at a pace."

Although he respects what Canelo Alvarez has done in moving up weight divisions to win titles and appreciates Vasiliy Lomachenko's style and movement, Fenech sees three current day fighters as standing out from the rest.

"Tyson Fury is one of the most skilled guys I've seen," he said.

"I still think he's doing some little things wrong, but he believes in himself, he has a plan and he sticks to it.

"I see the best fighter pound-for-pound in the world as Terence 'Bud' Crawford and (Naoya) Inoue.

"He (Inoue) leaves Lomachenko - skillwise as a professional - for dead.


"I'd watch Inoue any day over Lomachenko. The only thing Lomachenko has over him is he's in a bigger weight division, so there's a bit more money there.

"But when you're talking sheer class and skill, I love the kid."

 

https://www.sportingnews.com/au/box...o-duran-ray-leonard/xpid3myqmgrq1b44bhua5bsxx

 

Classic will definitely have some opinions on these various points/claims.

 

Yes i'd say that one is down to Fenech loving Tyson. It's pretty wild.