What page is your Marcel card on? Wouldn't mind giving it a look. Shibata-Echegaray is not a great fight to showcase Shibata's talents in. He...
Guts had a pretty stable period from the Kadota rematch through to the DeJesus loss. His early losses had more to do with him still developing I...
The best being?
Saldivar, despite looking quite good against Famechon, deteriorated pretty bad overnight imo and looked quite ordinary (by his standards) against...
Really? Have you seen the second fight? You'd probably have Jofre winning that one wide. A much better effort from Eder for mine...
No way Roger stops Camacho, he could Rosario-ize him though.
Shibata is one of the most talented Japanese fighters, but he often found ways to lose fights he shouldn't have. I actually thought Villaflor...
Nice post and I like the comparison. Muarata is another really good Japanese fighter, (kinda like a slightly less talented version of Jung Koo...
Though if H2H considerations weren't included and we were going just off accomplishments, Shoji Oguma would probably be in the top 3. Probably...
That'd be my list too.
Ebihara has daylight behind him as far as 3rd place goes imo.
I know Burt, but the point I'm getting at, is that it's arguable that they ACTUALLY weren't better as far as ability goes, despite what they were...
Yeah I kinda figured Burt, I was talking more in terms of ability rather than rating.
Roy was better than them all, though there were some during those times that would have argued that the above fighters were better than Roy...
Some arguables: Chavez-Taylor Leonard-Hearns Duran-Leonard Harada-Jofre Griffith-Rodriguez Robinson-Gavilan Armstrong-Ross