Nigel Benn vs todays 168 competition

loses to Canelo and Benavidez. Beats everyone else

 

Loses to Canelo. His aggression would play into Canelo's counter punching style and Canelo proved vs Golovkin that he can take a shot.

I'm not sold on Benavidez, think he'd stand right in front of Benn and you simply don't do that with Benn. Benn's batters Benavidez and stops him.

 

168 nowadays isn't exactly a shark tank. Canelo would light him up and probably Benavidez too although its not a given. Everybody else is probably in trouble

 

Can't see Canelo fighting someone as dangerous as Benn, Benavidez? hard to say how Benn would do against him

 

Benn would lose to Canelo.

 

The only active SMW who has something for him is Canelo; whilst on the balance of probabilities I would back Canelo, the only fighter Canelo has faced who applies the same type of relentless pressure as Benn is GGG, and I have Canelo losing the first two fights against GGG. Whilst he isn't as skilled as GGG IMO, Benn probably hits harder in absolute terms and I think it would be an intriguing match up.

 

Benn beats them all except Canelo.

If we are talking about time travel fantasies, then my wish would be for Benn to go back to his prime in the mid 90's and not father Conor.

 

Canelo at his best would beat Benn.

 

Benn`s body mechanics were better than Canelo`s are, I think he would have out-pointed Canelo but been stopped by Benavidez in a barn burner, he beats everybody else in the division as would g-man.

 

Benn was harder to hit at 168 hence his better performance in his rematch v Eubank sr, he also got his best win at 168 beating g-man despite having less power.

 

I agree, it`s just that he lost to Watson and Eubank at 160, he also lost to Malinga and Collins at 168, but that was at the end of his career.