90’s Pound For Pound Number One

You're right He was rated P4P but it was for several months/issues of Ring Magazine. When he lost to RJJ they awarded Roy as the Ring fighter of the whole year.

 

@Stuart_boxer
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine_Covers:_1994

I think he was rated #1 up till the October issue. Somewhere in a closet I have about 8 or 9 of these issues!

The May ISSUE is a MUST HAVE!!!!

 

I don't have the Feb or August issues.
Especially the Winter issue- who wanted to read about Tyson doing time. I remember working at a printing company called Quad Graphics they did People magazine & ESPN with his face branded with the words GUILTY...So i bypassed the winter issue.

 

RJJ was recognized for being the absolute best in the sport when he was LHW king and defending 6 belts. That was between the Gonzales and the Clinton Woods fight. He was nicknamed the Majestic at that moment. Early 00's.

For the 90's I think we must concede to DLH.

 

I had to strip all the biases to come to that conclusion LOL!

 

DLH lost a big fight during the 90`s.

 

Camacho wasn`t that good during the 90`s.

 

And he won big fights during the 1990s. RJJ won very few big fights then.
JCC was on his way out & Pea was the most robbed P4P IMO.

 

And RJJ didn't beat many better than a Camacho . I listed who RJJ fought (when he was Ring fighter of the year) not any other year.

 

Whitaker was No.1 in `93 and Toney was No.2, I can remember a journalist mentioning Whitaker as No.1 stating that Toney and Jones were snapping at his heels, simply because Jones could move up the rankings by beating Toney and Toney could become N0.1 by beating Jones.

 

It goes like this, see:

1. Pernell Whitaker
2. Roy Jones
3. Tito Trinidad

 

Barrera slapped Hamed all over the ring without getting caught much at all.

 

Tito Trinidad
And
Sweet Pea

 

@mark ant
Outside James Toney & a McCalum who again had been fighting since ealry 1980s...viewing RJJ's Ring fighter in 1996 & 1999.

Put them today. it is 2019 he fights those guys, you wouldn't question it?

 

Toney was better defensively when he fought Jones than Camacho was when he got trounced by Chavez and Toney was ranked far higher than Camacho in their respective weight classes at that time and Camacho never placed as high as Toney P4P at any syage of the 90`s, he never even got in the top 10 during that decade even once.