80s boxers overrated

Good god! This reminds me of the guy who posted that back then,all those guys had to do was stand and fight, not think like Floyd.
Floyd is the greatest of his generation and a joy to watch,but bull**** threads like these remind me of an old joke;

How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?


YOU WOULDN'T KNOW! YOU WEREN'T THERE!

 

Fans nowadays only value who the 5 best fighters you fought were. And apparently you don't even have to win to get full credit for it...

Fans and nostalgia, gotta love it.

 

According to BoxRec, the combined records of Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and I'm throwing in Benitez is 315-35-5. Duran led the bunch with double digit losses at 16 but that was late in his career when he was fighting well above his ideal fighting weight of lightweight and welter.

You probably wouldn't get 10 boxers today to amass that amount of fights in their careers, or fight the caliber of fighters the above 5 guys faced in their day.

 

Duran also had more wins than SRL and Mayweather combined.

 

Sanchez,Duran,Pryor,SRL,Hearns,Hagler,Spinks & Holmes would all be champs if they were fighting today

 

:good

 

You are a ****ing idiot

 

learn your history youngan.

 

Besides the big 4 and Benitez there was Sanchez, Gomez, Arguello, prime Mike Tyson, prime Chavez Sr., Michael Spinks, Azuma Nelson, Jeff Fenech, Donald Curry, Lloyd Honeyghan, Prime Hector Camacho, Edwin Rosario, prime Mike McCallum, and Jose Luis Ramirez just to name a few.

 

boxing is the only sport where people think athletes from forty years ago are better than those of today. they obviously had more heart back then, but ........

 

benitez fought duran, leonard and hearns and never got a shot at hagler. it should be the fab 5 because he was amazing himself. he won a world title at 140lbs at the age of 17!!! he beat cervantez who had over 100 fights. that's the youngest champion ever!!! there was no shame in losing to leonard. he beat duran and went the distance (15 rounds!!!) with hearns. he had about 24 fights in his first 2 yrs of boxing. who does that? no one these days.

 

I'm not sure what you mean, have you ever watched videotapes of boxing from the 70's and 80's? A fat George Foreman came back 20 years later and won the lineal championship. That tell's you something about today's boxing.

 

these guys have no clue.

 

Some boxers from 40 years ago were better than those of today.

How many examples do you want?

30 years? 40 years? 50 years?

Ray Robinson's peak was 70 years ago.

I'll take him over anyone today at 147.

 

that was still twenty years ago.