10 Greatest Featherweights of last 50 years?

Morales for a start

 

I'd put Marquez on the list.

IMO he doesn't get the credit he deserves, perhaps because he isn't the stereotypical Mexican fighter.....

 

By the time Morales warmed to 126 lbs he was a far better 126 lber than Naseem ever was.... in fact its actually a myth that he wasnt that good at 126, sure, he was better at 122 but I thought he was good in every FWT fight except for the 2nd half of the Espadas fight, the Chi performance was criticised at the time but we didnt know Chi at the time & he never lost to any other fighter in his prime except Morales & went on to prove he was a good fighter & Erik did still win clearly.

He probably had his 126 lb peak vs Ayala, brilliant performance, as good as any of his performances at 122 probably.

 

Davey Moore
Sugar Ramos
Vicente Saldivar
Mitsuneri Seki
Howard Winstone
Johnny Famechon
Jose Legra
Eder Jofre
Antonio Gomez
Shozo Saijo
Ernesto Marcel
Ruben Olivares
Alexis Arguello
Danny Lopez
Poison Kotey
Ruben Castillo
Eusebio Pedroza
Sal Sanchez
JUan Laporte
Rocky Lockridge
Barry McGuigan
Antonio Esparragoza
MArcos Villasana
Paul Hodgkinson
Tom Johnson
Kevin Kelley
Wilfredo Vazquez
Luisito Espinosa
Naseem Hamed
MAB
Erik Morales
Pac
JMM


Some of those early-mid nineties guys maybe shouldn't be there, but off the top of my head i'd say that's most of the notable champions and a few of the better contenders.No doubt i've forgotten a few.

Man, the sixties\early seventies was incredibly deep at this weightclass.

 

Essentially from 1960 on?

Aside from the first five choices ( i.e. Sanchez, Pedroza, Arguello, Nelson, Saldivar), cases could be made for any of these fighters making the Top 10

Barerra
Morales
Jofre
Olivares
Lopez
Esperragoza
Hamed
Pacquiao

Marquez and John also warrant mention.

 

Saldivar is the greatest, that much I do know. I'll chuck Winstone, Marcel and Little Red into the mix. Marcel is particularly underrated IMO.

 

If we're talking head to head ability, it's pretty hard to narrow it down to ten. There's a handful of essentials (Marcel, Saldivar, Sanchez, Nelson and Arguello) but then there's about 10 guys that are all roughly on the same level right underneath them.

 

pacquiao is the greatest FW since nelson

 

Duran's win over Marcel, who then went on to beat Arguello, shows that even at such a raw age he could have hung with the best here.