Whats your top5 or even top10 all time punchers for these divisions? Lightheavy Welter Lightweight Featherweight You can put any guys who did their best work at the super and jnr division around some of those, just make a note of it. After seeing dpw's thread I was just thinking about where does Corrales rank all time as a puncher....?
Some of the obvious names Lightheavy - Foster and Moore Welter - Robinson, Hearns, Walcott, Trinidad, Cuevas Light - Duran, Arguello, Williams, Armstrong Feather - Saddler, Arguello, Armstrong, D. Lopez, probably Hamed makes it Langford goes in at several weights.
Stick to the Lounge and clinging to Oscar's nutsack Jack, you clearly don't know **** when it comes down to actually discussing the sport. And I didn't know Michael Moore had stopped directing and taken up boxing.
Welterweight: 1 - Sugar Ray Robinson 2 - Joe Walcott 3 - Thomas Hearns 4 - Charley Burley 5 - Felix Trinidad
Throw in Rosario at LW, along with Spinks, Saad Muhammad and perhaps Charles at LHW and there you have it.
Who does Williams have for company at lightweight? Is he the best puncher in that divisions history by distance? Taking everything into account, how does Duran stack up?
Would you rate him above Lopez and Armstrong? Who would be your #1 at the weight? I would be tempted to go for Arguello although I'm a huge admirer of Saddler.
It's hard to rate them in order. I'm not sure any of them listed would have KO'd Soto or McCullough. Those two were ones Hamed couldn't even budge. Although Hamed picked his punches and wasn't particularly a volume puncher. Maybe Saddler and Armstrong would test those two chins more often. Someone like McCullough would get involved in crazy wars with the likes of Saddler and Armstrong and come off second best of course. It's highly unlikey they would knock him out IMO. Infact, Saddler and Armstrong would probably rattle punches off McCullough as reguarly as Morales did at super-bantamweight.
Where do names like Wilfredo Gomez and Galaxy belong if you were to just make rankings for the original divisions seeing as though a lot of their best work was in between them at the super/jnr intermediate divisions? Or you just cant do it without including those divisions...? A guess I mean how do you compare them to the old boys..
I think the top spot at featherweight goes to either Armstrong or Arguello, Saddler right behind those two. Armstrong's 27 fight knockout streak with wins over Petey Sarron in 6, Benny Bass in 4, Chalky Wright in 3, Frankie Klick in 4, etc is enough for the top spot, especially when you look at his knockout success above the weight.