All-time pound-for-pound who do you rank higher: Griffith or Arguello?

I rate Arguello higher and consider him the better fighter as well. Alex left no room for doubt as to was the winner in most of his bouts, the same cannot be said for Emile who was the beneficiary of several rather questionable decisions during his career.

To name a few I recently rewatched his first two bouts vs Jorge Fernandez and felt the Argentinian won both fights clearly, the first one 8-2 in rounds with a big round 4 were he staggered Emile repeatedly and had him rubbery legged. The return bout I had 7-3 and he again outhustled him and stunned Emile a number of times throughout the bout.

Then of course you have the four bouts vs Luis Rodriguez which most of you know I had Luis winning, and then you have both Joey Archer fights that could easily gone Joeys way the first one especially. Emile fought the better competition overall, but Arguello did better against his top opponents than Emile did and was much more consistent throughout his career and that rates him higher in my eyes.

 

dealHey POPKINS!!!! THis says it all right here:deal What more do you need??? It shows that Arguello has the better resume,and better record on the championship level,not to mention his ability to end a Fight with one punch. He was much more consistant than Griffith,and beat more champs,won more titles. He was a top 5 feather of all time, probably the greatest Jl of all time. Also a top 10lightweight . Griffith best claim is maybe a top 10 welter,But not one of the greatest in his division as Arguello was in 2 of those.

 

As much as I admire Alexis Arguello, I say Griffith...and for the reason that Emile was actually two seperate fighters in his career...the aggressive "killer instinct" Griffith, who's very killer instinct led him to his greatest notoriety and "fame"...and the revised, reinvented version, who learned skills as a patient, versatile ring mechanic who never thrilled the fans, wasn't always consistant and was for the most part, somewhat detached and fought according to his own logic and minus the passion that he once had...he was a master at navigating the 15 round distance and at responding to and adapting himself to a wide variety of opponents and styles...whereas Arguello fought in one mode usually... a wonderfully exciting mode, and a more ko friendly..thus fan friendly mode...but was not as versatile or as long lived as Griffith, or as skilled, IMO.

 

Arguello was a much tougher nut to crack than Emile. His record speaks for itself. More dominant in his defenses and more of them and in the 70's, seemed to get better with age. IMO, he was the Ray Robinson of his time.

 

I think its what you like better. Griffiths better wins but inconsistancy over a long period or Arguellos consistant wins over a long period but not quite as long as Griffith was at the top.

Griffith has good wins over Moyer (in a close fight and split 2-1), Luis Manuel Rodgrigez (although these are very debateable), Ralph Dupas, Dick Tiger (2x but the 1st fight is the importnt one), Joey rcher (2x close again), Benvenuti (1-2)

But Griffiths wins are also very deep especially at Welterweight with wins over Paret, Ortega, Charnley, Stable, don Fullmer, Fernandez. I think Arguello dosent quite have the dpth of resume of Griffith but he had the greater consistancy and his wins were clearer.

On film i personally think Arguello is better but it is very close as Griffith is also very very good.

 

which is why i stayed on the fence and didn't vote.i can't split them.they're both ATG's:good

 

I like Alexis ... I feel he lost some prestige due to the Pryor losses but at 126 and 130 he was more dominate than Emile ever was at 147.

 

Arguello.

 

I think this is a great point that we often tend to forget when judging past fights.

 

I think Griffith is competitive with evey ATG and loses closely to afew.

I think Arguello beat more of the greats but he losses worse or more widely in the fights he loses where Griffith would lose closely. But by that token i think Arguello wins more fights clearer aswell

At Featherweight and Super Feather Arguello is a beast at Lightweight he dosent do too well though.