The weight doesn't make much difference here. light Flyweight was always a superfluous class. It benefited various weaker fighters as far as...
Definitely. That's what I was trying to say with that last comment, but I phrased it messily. There's a chance his chin at bantam wouldn't have...
Just as a general point not related to arguing for Hamed or Tszyu, but I don't think the IBF should have been seen as a legit major belt either....
Ohba showed more weakness than Sanchez imo, primarily his chin just not being nearly as good (though his recovery and heart was great), but it's...
Johnson did prove his toughness and heart when past prime against the much bigger Marquez (as well as reveal some weaknesses), but it's hard to...
I liked Rosario early in his career, but he never lived up to that early sub-135 potential he showed as a prospect, roboticised quickly and went...
The eastern-euro ex-soviet school (often ex amatuer stars) guys just seem to draw this weird extra hype to them. Not the '90s guys like...
Benitez looked bad against Cerda. In retrospect, staying at middleweight was a mistake. Gomez would have been even more stupid fighting Mancini....
The leverage he could get on those uppercuts and hooks to the body was brutal; he hurt and dropped more fighters to the body than McCallum did....
It was tough for black american fighters like Johnson and Tim Austin back then at Fly and Bantam. They had a much harder time drawing locally than...
I was never a supporter of Pac being a great Welterweight, imo he was a very good, but highly flawed one that wasn't any kind of h2h force there...
He descended into years of alcoholism and low-level organised crime. A sad story.
Nunn vs Toney's one of those fights where I dont think either of the two takes there often seemed to be are quite right... either Nunn...
That definitely has benefits if you really want to dig deep into parts of a fight on rewatches, but imo if you're doing a serious scoring attempt...
McCallum vs Moore would have been a very good, competitive fight too, circa late 82/83, pre-Duran fight, imo. Mike would win, but that wouldn't be...
