Don't get me wrong, commendable achievements and all. But Casamayor was well past it and had been so for ages, and Marquez was struggling to pin him down until that admittedly splendid KO. Diaz was just never that good, though JMM took him out brutally after a hard struggle. Bradley seems to be maturing into a solid, reasonably well-rounded champion, so that one might be a good fight. But who else?
We're in agreement, Marco Barrera was nowhere near the offensive machine he once was either. The body work was missing, and his stamina seemed to drop despite the fight not being fought at a very high pace. I don't hold that win in to high a regard, nor the Casamayor victory. I do know that there are a lot of posters who rate Marquez higher than Barrera though, and that's puzzling to me.
:huh Yeah, it is to me aswell. Probably based on the notion that Marquez handled Pacquaio so well in comparison to Barrera, which is tosh. In their respective primes at featherweight, I'd pick Barrera everytime: he was far more versatile and the greater ring general. If he hadn't walloped Marquez while he was down in the 7th, it could have been entirely different.
All Time Great means something entirely different to me,to name those that do not make the cut, would take this thread over.
Qawi, Chandler, Pintor, Pedroza, if they are not considered great by an individual they would be mandatory here.
i think Calzaghe should be top 100 ... something between 80-100 spot for me, De Jesus, Kotsa Tszyu, Laporte and Camacho just missed the spot
Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson might warrant a mention. Kind of lacks a signature win over a really great fighter to propel him into the upper echelon of ATG's, but he had the skills to hang with any great flyweight/jr bantamweight when he was at his best.