The 1990's - Golden era

Best pound for pound fighter - Roy Jones in his prime.

james toney in his prime

osca de la hoya in his prime

Lennox lewis in his prime

felix trinidad in his prime

Naseem Hamed in his prime

Mike Tyson still a force

Barrera in his prime

Morales rising star

Holyfield still a force

Whitaker still had something left

Floyd Maywearther rising star

Tim Austin

Stevie Johnston

Johnny Tapia

Outstanding little man Ricardo Lopez

Gerald McCelllenan

Juilan Jackson

Chris Eubank

Nigel Benn

Joe Calzaghe rising star

Virgil Hill

Eddie Futch - one of the last great old school trainers

Gatti V Ruelas

Ike Quartey

Kostya Tsyzu

Rising lightweight Shane Mosley

Julio Cesar Chavez wasnt finshed yet

Winky Wright rising star

Hopkins

The 1990's was a Golden time in boxing for me

 

No Ricardo Lopez in that list.:huh

 

Yes there is - read it againatsch

 

My bad man :good

 

:good

could not miss Lopez out

outstanding professional fighter of his generation

I remeber he beat that other top mexican in a big fight - what was that guys name I cant remeber??????

 

Rosendo Alvarez. Close fights, the both of them, the first of which was ruled a draw. Lopez was past his prime by then though.

And the eaely 90's were part of Whitaker's peak, his P4P years. He had more than just "something left" early on. I'd say the 90's were definitely better for him than the 80's overall, though he really split his time between the two.

 

are you talking about Alvarez he was from Nicaragua i think.

 

he was from Nicaragua right(aLVAREZ)

 

cant remeber his name - but I can remeber what he looked like

a short guy with a spikey type hair and long hair at the back coming down over his neck

 

A mullet? Are you thinking of Michael Carbajal? If so they never fought, and Carbajal was taller than Lopez. I don't know who the hell you're talking about. Alvarez was really the only big time opponent Lopez ever faced to be honest, and he had a shaved head.

You might be thinking of the Carbajal/Gonzalez fights.

 

your right - you brought it back to me now

Michael Carbajal is the man I am referring to

he never fought Lopez?

I must be mixing it up with the Gonzalez fights

remind me Gonzalez what was his full name

 

Humberto Gonzalez. He was in a trilogy against Carbajal which he won 2 of 3 officially, probably only deserved 1. Great fights, at least 1 of them won Fight of the Year, not sure which. Gonzalez also was in another Fight of the Year against Saman Sorjaturong which he lost by 7th round KO. he was passed his prime by that point however.

Lopez would've beaten both IMO, but it definitely would've done wonders for his otherwise lacking resume if he did face them.

 

another hyped fight at the lighter weights in the 90's

Johnny Tapia V Danny Romero

Tapia outclassed him

there was alot of bad blood there cos they were from the same town or something like that

 

Left off junior jones :good

 

Boxing fan never thought of it as a golden era at the time. we were always rightfully complaining about the lack of 50/50 superfights

But I really miss those days now