Welters of the 80's would be too much for Manny and Floyd

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  1. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I respect boxing from all era's but we are now in a place where if you lose your last fight your finished , but if you win then your the greatest of all time, i have put a poll to question the follwoing.

    If Don Curry , Marlon Starling , Mark Breland , Aaron Davis were fighting today would any of the welters still be champions , I personally think only one and that is Mosley , but the rest would be struggling , and to get to the top you would have to go through Simon brown, Maurice Blocker, , even the likes of Honneyghan and McCrory . I think floyd and Manny would avoid this division and stick at 135, still being Champions , but not at Welter .
     
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  2. ajohnz

    ajohnz New Member Full Member

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    wheres the mention of leonard and hearns? if pacquiao is a welterweight after only one fight why not mention their names? but no I do not think they would be too much. not saying they wouldn't win either. i do think it would be close though
     
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  3. pauliemayweathe

    pauliemayweathe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Floyd would beat every one of those guys....so would manny...manny may struggle more with curry....leonard and hearns would pose problems for anyone but PBF would compete better than manny imo with them due to reach and defense....dif era's get way to much credit
     
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  4. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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  5. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Didn't you see Leonard beat the tar out of Mayweather Sr? Pacquiao is a brawler, so I could see him having a go at SRL.
     
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  6. EL-MATADOR

    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  7. Rooney

    Rooney Boxing Junkie banned

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    Another pointless dream like thread LOL

    If only we had a time machine hey?
     
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  8. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Ya Blade -- my sentiments exactly. I think I'll go back to that post and award him the pissing ******.
     
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  9. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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  10. silica_storm

    silica_storm New Member Full Member

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    totally agree with you, im sick of people talking about the old timers like they were godlike and couldnt be touched by the modern fighters.
     
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  11. wellsini

    wellsini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You could have put this a little better i think what you meant to say was people look on era's gone by with fondness and maybe blinkers on.

    Having said that Floyd Mayweather would be ****ing good in any era!!
     
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  12. wellsini

    wellsini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah this!:good

    Do people think boxers get worse generation to generation?

    Because for my money training methods are better now so if you put the SRL of the early 80's training methods against the FMJ of todays would this not be a total mismatch in Floyds favour?

    I dunno this is another thread someone start it:think
     
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  13. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Leonard
    Hearns
    Benitez
    Duran
    Cuevas
    And the list goes on.

    If the top welters of today had fought in the early 80's, they would have struggled to break the top 10. That's not idol worship. That is a fact of boxing history that any student of the game is aware of.
     
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  14. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    manny pacq is not a welterweight...he demolished cotto who is not a natural welter either.... but whats the point of explaining why a true solid natural welter would own him? you guys obviously started watching boxing in 2009. its no knock against manny..its just a great welterweight will always beat a great featherweight.....
     
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  15. itrymariti

    itrymariti Cañas! Full Member

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    Oh yes, the classic "modern training methods" tack. :patsch
     
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