1982 Ring Light Heavyweight Ratings

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  1. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Pretty impressive list. You've got about 4-5 hall of fame inductees plus a couple other notables, most of whom were basically prime.

    Dwight Qawi Champion

    1. Michael Spinks
    2. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
    3. Matthew Saad Muhammad
    4. Eddie Davis
    5. Carlos Deleon
    6. John Davis
    7. Marvin Johnson
    8. Oscar Rivadeneyra
    9. James Scott
    10. John Odhiambho
     
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  2. Unforgiven

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    1982 . When adopting muslim names was still cool in America.
     
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  3. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    5 solid hall of famers!
     
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  4. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1978-1981 was probably stronger overall.
     
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  5. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, it was kind of popular because of Muhammad Ali. These Black Muslim guys wispered in Frankin, Gregory and Braxton's ears and gained control, offering them an identity. A lot of it was about $ and control. Saad said later on in life that he was no longer a Muslim.
     
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  6. fists of fury

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    Holy ****, talk about depth!
     
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  7. Longhhorn71

    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    From the end of Bob Foster's reign to Spinks & Qawi finally settling the Top Dog title......you could put the Top Ten names in a hat, shake'em, then draw them back out....and the List as high quality fighters would vary little from top to bottom.
     
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  8. mr. magoo

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    That era was stacked. You even had Carlos Deleon in that top 10 who eventually moved up to cruiser and established himself as one of the best of all time in that division. Spinks, Saad, Mustafa, Qawi, and Johnson were all greats at 175 and mostly in their primes ( Saad was starting to slip ).. James Scott and a few others were at least solid contenders.. I don't know if there was any other year in light heavyweight history which trumps that one. To find a comparable period you might have to look at some of the years when Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, Jimmy Bivins, etc. were all sharing the top 10, but let's just say it would be tough and needless to say, close...
     
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  9. fists of fury

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    It's amazingly deep.
    Compare that to now, where you have Kovalev, Stevenson and...um...

    I feel sorry for kids today. Imagine how awesome the general forum would have been those days with all those fighters to talk about.
     
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  10. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    And to make matters worse, the top two guys won't even fight each other.. 35 years ago, you not only had MULTIPLE greats sharing the division, but you also had MULTIPLE meetings among them. Not to mention 15 round fights, and far less belts/titles to avoid all the confusion.. There's never been anything like it since..
     
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  11. Seamus

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    Here is 1924, the first year of Ring's Annual Ratings. I can only imagine was '22 and '23 would have looked like...

    Gene Tunney
    Young Stribling
    Kid Norfolk
    Mike McTigue, Champion
    Ad Stone
    Jeff Smith
    Paul Berlenbach
    Tony (Young) Marullo
    Tommy Loughran
    Jimmy Delaney
     
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  12. Clinton

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    Very impressive:good
     
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  13. Clinton

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    That one, too:good
     
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  14. Gannicus

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    Todays era is a golden era, by the way:

    Andre Ward - someone with ATG ability
    Sergey Kovalev - Cearly an ATG LHW
    Artur Beterbiev - the hardest hitting amateur to cross over to pros, and the physically strongest light heavyweight in history who competed at heavyweight in ams because he was so strong
    Oleksandr Gvozdyk - Robbed from a silver medal, hits like a truck, all round very good skill
    Dmitry Bivol - looks like a very good prospect, will do very well
    Egor Mekhontsev - if the fight became a pure-boxing match, Olympic gold medalist Mekhontsev would be a big threat
    A lot of decent contenders
     
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  15. Titan1

    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Back in the days when Ring was ranking other fighters from different divisions in their unnatural weight classes. Still pretty impressive list, and maybe John Davis should've fought Saad Muhammad.
     
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