Could Jimmy Wilde beat a top modern Flyweight?

Just picking a decade I would say 1970 flys hold their own against other eras. It just happens to be an under appreciated division then and today....but not because the talent is lacking there.

 

I don't even rank him in my current top 10 p4p

 

Seriously?

Who is your top 10?

 

Yeah, it's strange… some people live in the past and refuse to recognize exceptional talent, even if it's right in front of them.

 

Wait nevermind he does

1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Canelo Alvarez
3. Bud Crawford
4. Vasyl Lomachenko
5. Errol Spence Jr
6a. Anthony Joshua
6b. Tyson Fury
8. Naoya Inoue
9. Mikey Garcia
10. Gennady Golovkin


Wooooops (Garcia was well ahead of him before he lost to Spence)

I'm considering putting Spence above Loma and Fury above AJ

 

Wilde would be the dominant force around today. From what I've seen on film, Wilde had an extremely great judgement of distance, and great shot selection, alongside his power. He looked great in the Symmonds bout.

Kenshiro, Kyoguchi and Tanaka are quality fighters today, but Wilde beats them.

Also, the thought of Wilde on steroids makes me lol. Would he even need them?

 

Anyone with that type of power has to be taken seriously in any era.

No one at 115 or under has an easy night against Wilde.

 

Bumpity bump.

 

Another unknown fighter for modernists, they prefer acting like he didn't exist and focus in Luis Firpo as a proof how terrible boxing was back then!

 

Wilde had a very developed, but quite weird, style. I am still finding it hard to get to grips with his. Jim Driscoll is the example I would use if you are that annoyed lol.

I am looking it up though. Apparently, one of the men who trained Wilde was a legendary Welsh Mountain fighter called Dai Davies / Dai Dollings (I am still unsure whether these two are separate people or one in the same), who trained the ATG trainer Ray Arcel in ways of fighting after migrating to America after achieving training fame. Welsh mountain fighting had some similarities with LPR, in that men could recover for as long as they needed and a bout would only end with a KO or conceding defeat. This may explain his weird but effective techniques.

https://historyofbkb.weebly.com/mountain-fighting.html

https://www.ringnews24.com/2016/08/...ed-shape-robert-de-niros-latest-boxing-movie/

http://www.welshboxers.com/hall-of-fame/dai-dollings/

 

It was Davies. That was his father in law. Dollings didn’t have anything to do with Wilde.

Lawrence Davies wrote three excellent books on that period of Welsh boxing. One was about the Mountain Fighters, the other focused on the booths and Jack Scarrott, the other back to bare knuckle. Mountain fighters and Prize Fighters are excellent books but I imagine hard to find.

 

I don't know. Which of Wilde's opponents used technique and tactics most similar to those of a top modern flyweight?

 

Thanks. I will update my thread with it now