On 21 March 1914 he won the Welterweight Championship of Britain and Welterweight Championship of the World by defeating Tom McCormick in a...
Leonard clearly lost the middle rounds of that fight to Hagler, he gassed badly and is lucky it was a 12 rounder.
Benn was very skilled, offensively his shot variation was better than Ward`s.
He had loaded gloves v Cotto, Clottey had a low out put and he was completely out-boxed by the much smaller Manny.
Tucker would have a significant height and reach advantage and could take Mike Tyson`s power so would have easily taken Jai`s power too.
Duran was clearly on top v Buchanan anyway, landing far harder shots quite often, beating DeJesus really added to his lightweight resume too.
Clearly established himself as the best with controversy.
Norton was a good boxer that did well v Holmes he would have to much reach for Breidis he had an 80 inch reach and out-jabbed Ali in their first...
Then why didn`t he repeat that claim when asked in their face off? Warren kept saying it doesn`t matter what happened in sparring because Dubois...
Watch his fight v Saunders, Whitaker has never faced anything like that and would have been easily out-boxed by Saunders, Whitaker is untested at...
Matt Wells World 1914 – 1915 John H. Stracey WBC, The Ring 1975 – 1976 Lloyd Honeyghan Maurice Hope Bob Fitzsimmons World 1891 – 1894 Randy Turpin...
There is a lot of strength to that arguement, however there have been quite a few British world champs pre 90`s though. Matt Wells World 1914 –...
Whitaker won`t be able to keep Chis off, he`ll out-work Ben.
Lightwweights only started beating welters in the last 15 years or so and there aren`t that many lightweight champs that have gone on to become...
Whitaker doesn`t have the power and Chris is far bigger and better than anyone Whitaker has fought.
