Greater Division: Light Fly or Super Fly?

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  1. Flea Man

    Flea Man มวยสากล Full Member

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    Which division has the greater fighters? Which division has the more impressive champions and greater matching of their best competitors? Which has more depth and which division is the more meaningful and purposeful?

    And for a bit of fun who is the greatest flyweight you'd pick to beat the greatest light fly and who would be the greatest flyweight to beat the greatest super fly? Or is the answer Lacier-Roman II? ;)

    Discuss, make lists, go off on tangents, troll, whatever :good
     
  2. Lester1583

    Lester1583 Can you hear this? Full Member

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    Kalulesai Mother****in' Galaxy!!!:ibutt

    'Nuff said!!!
     
  3. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yuh, Carbajal, Gonzalez, Gamez, Lopez later, Calderon (I rate Calderon quite well, I have to say)....it is a good division but IMO Super Fly is more deep in quality with Galaxy, Moon, Konadu, Katsuya Onizuka (I love this guy), Mark Johnson, recently guys like Darchinyan and Mijares......

    I really can´t pick one fighter in these division and call him teh greatest....I think is all too close.....
     
  4. Lester1583

    Lester1583 Can you hear this? Full Member

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    Chang, Zapata, Yuh, Calderon etc - light fly is more about midgets, featherfisters and fragile defensive masters.:gayfight

    Moon, Galaxy, Watanabe etc - super fly is more about Indestructible Warriors and Fearless Samurais brutally crushing everything in sight!:toney
     
  5. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    Both had good talent during the 80s when Fly and Bantam were talent-rich divisions, but should be done away with imo.
     
  6. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Watanabe ! Forgot him....there is some new watanabe footage on YT, it´s new for me at least......good stuff.....
     
  7. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Light Fly

    Yoko Gushiken
    Jung Koo Chang
    Myung Yuh Woo
    Hilario Zapata
    German Torres
    Chiquita Gonzalez
    Michael Carbajal
    Ricardo Lopez
    Ivan Calderon

    Super Fly

    Jiro Watanabe
    Gustavo Ballas
    Khaosai Galaxy
    Gilberto Roman
    Santos Laciar
    Nana Konadu
    Sung Kil Moon
    Johny Tapia
    Mark Johnson

    At first i thought it would be Light Fly clearly but now i think it could go either way.

    Even going by favorite fighters in each division its pretty much even.

    Really cant go wrong either way.
     
  8. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g[/ame]



    That's it. No half-assed witty bit to go with it, just the video. Thought about doing this bit about turning to a higher power when faced with a difficult question, and how Curtis Mayfield would be that higher power for me because he's Curtis Mayfield and he was a cool ass dude, and I'd be like this hardcore Christian but only it's Curtis Mayfield, but it was just way too convoluted. I don't feel it was executed properly because I thought to myself," If I hadn't written this, which I did, I don't think I'd get it, which I do, but only because I wrote it." Stopped being funny about two sentences in, right? So I did away with it and decided not to try anything else. Bit lazy today. It's raining, which I like, but it makes me really listless for some reason. Once in a while, at least. Don't have a genuine answer for the thread, by the way. Don't know enough about either division to really say. Just saw superfly in the title and thought I could do a good Curtis Mayfield bit if I were up for it, right? Wasn't. It stopped raining. Curtis Mayfield once got hit by some stage equipment, which paralyzed him, but then he still made a record from the hospital bed. Pretty badass dude. Couldn't even play guitar anymore. "tryin' to get ohhhhhvaaah!" I wonder if he watched boxing. He might have watched boxing. Curtis Mayfield. That line in the song "Fame" by GZA, where he's like, "water dripped out of Farrah's faucet into the glass. She was superfly, Curtis may feel her ass." That's cool. Curtis Mayfield.
     
  9. Flea Man

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    Lester you're killing me and winding me up at the same time and I know you're loving it :twisted:
     
  10. Lester1583

    Lester1583 Can you hear this? Full Member

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    Flea Man มวยสากล Full Member

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  12. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The only bright spot in the history of the wasteland that is light fly were the few fights in which Ricardo Lopez graced the division with his presence.
     
  13. Flea Man

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  14. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Seriously light fly. Better fights better fighters.
     
  15. jowcol

    jowcol Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Neither, you either fight flyweight or fight bantam. The in-between divisions that have emerged in the last last several decades have, in no small way, RUINED boxing.
    Remember? Fly/Bantam/Feather/Light/Welter/Middle/Lt. Heavy/Heavy?
    Once that got convoluted in the name of big bucks boxing started it's road downhill, along with money grubbing promoters and big TV. It's why the IMO moronic UFC crap is more popular than boxing now.