Unpopular opinions

Loma beats Floyd

 

actually, holyfield could punch at heavyweight. super-heavyweights would try to just blow out the "natural cruiserweight" at great risk.

 

Don King is the best promoter in boxing history, a great showman with tons of charisma, & is comedy gold.

 

Hardly unpopular.

Only Arum & McMahon come close.

 

Fair enough, but generally people have a hard time from distinguishing his moral character to him as a business man, & don't give him his props as one helluva promoter.

 

Agreed.

Just solely as a promoter, he's phenomenal.

 

His nephew is the one who killed him.

 

I absolutely agree when it comes to comparing fighters from different eras and/or weight classes.

 

Yeah you're right, it doesn't work under the two conditions you mention...not for me anyway - it's just too abstract. When comparing two fighters from the same weight class and the same era (assuming they never fought), it"s not such a conceptual leap so at least you can visualise that more easily.

 

That Lennox Lewis is below Tyson/Evander H2H.

 

'88 Mike Tyson would be too small to rule the heavyweight division since the appearance of Bowe and Lewis in the 90s onward:

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Green = W
Purple = NC
Red = L
Yellow are hypothetical match-ups

 

Impressive graph. Yours?

 

Yeah.
Really I should be doing my tax return today.

But I should note all the data is from boxrec
Ring ratings by year
Weight
Height
so their might be some discrepancies

 

I appreciate the time it must have taken to do that.
It probably deserves it's own thread.

 

Exactly.