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
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.....
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
Both had good talent during the 80s when Fly and Bantam were talent-rich divisions, but should be done away with imo.
Watanabe ! Forgot him....there is some new watanabe footage on YT, it´s new for me at least......good stuff.....
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.
[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.
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.
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.