Champions who represented the biggest qualatative advance over what had gone before

Different eras create different pioneers; none are superior.

 

That is true, maybe it is just more of the timing of Corbett's victory over Sullivan. In a time when Boxing was being dragged out of the dark ages, so to speak. With the advent of organized rules. No more of the days when fighters would pound on eachother inwhich almost anything goes. Deservidly or not. Sullivan had the image of the ultimate strongman, who could not be bested. Corbett's victory could have been brought upon by Sullivan's age if anything else. But he did look impressive in outboxing Sullivan. Which ushered in an era of Boxing being seen as an art form. & appereciated by the public.

 

Hadn't Miguel Canto already done this??

 

he had another good shout