I've always taken the "inconsistent" rep thing to be 90% related to his Featherweight days. Whatever his training habits were, they obviously...
This was a really cool thread. Harada at Flyweight is an interesting one. I get why it might be hard to stomach, but I do tend to agree that the...
Olivares lifestyle was mentioned often by folks that were directly around him back on the Cyberboxingzone message board days. I'd imagine it got...
Pat Barrett vs Efrem Calamati. Barrrett had some scary knockouts. Calamati was getting some decent recognition as an up and coming defensive...
People are different. Some can't take much in the way of beatings...others can truck on over a hundred tough fights. Some bodies don't respond...
Yeah, Nunn checked out after swallowing the hype he got from the Curtis Parker to Kalambay run. Big gaps between defences as if he was already a...
There wasn't any significant difference physically or power-wise between 154 and 160 for Mike, imo. It's not as if he was a regularly knocking...
Darren Van Horn managing to beat Lindell Holmes. Holmes was slightly undersized at 168, he only moved up because he was having trouble getting...
You have to take them within their own individual context, but I don't understand how you could accurately evaluate a fighter if you don't take...
I find a fight like this between contemporary boxer and 20th century one tough to really visualize straight up because of the changes in sports...
As far as the more notable fighters in the division goes, imo this is the matchup between best chin vs best power. Carbajal did work more fluidly...
Sorry, I should have specified that I was thinking in terms of if he had moved up before taking the weight-drained beating he did against...
I've been out of the loop for a long time, but back in the '00s online message board days, I'd say Lopez was usually notably more highly regarded...
He was great, but he had the glaring weakness of being stylistically a very classic boxer-puncher (his movement, jabbing and hooks remind me of...
Carbajal was never fast imo. He threw good combinations earlier in his career before becoming too enamoured with his power, but he was a pretty...
