John, I've enjoyed your insights for several years, especially your Stillman's gym stories (the Pink Caddie the Sugar parked in the no-park zone and NO cop was comin' close to even starting to write a ticket! ) I'm (only) 59 but my dad had me starting a sports scrapbook by 1959. Floyd Patterson is still my favorite. Dad would tell me at bedside how he was such a gentleman in a brutal sport. He went to the first Liston closed circuit fight with my uncle and, against my mother's wishes, woke me up to tell me that my hero had been KO'd in the first. I cried myself to sleep that night. The Friday nite TV scraps in the late 50's-early sixties are a matter of tear-bringing record in my childhood. Saw the Paret-Griffith scrap, tho not knowing exactly what happened at the time. Boxing still hadn't digressed in the 60's. The Tiger-Griffith, Nino-Monzon, etc, etc, Patterson-Ellis (9/68), the last chance for my hero to regain a portion of the title, were Saturday afternoon thrills! In short, Leonard is HOF. I always mention the problem with different eras but, as we speak, I've still never seen a fighter as talented, schooled, hungry, with all the tools like Sugar Ray Robinson. Blessings to you and to your insights John!
As for the thread title, very hard to say as far as pure boxing skills go, both guys were great, Robinson was the better overall fighter tho if you take every attribute on board.