How today's WW division compares with the best era of WW

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  1. OrishamanNow

    OrishamanNow Member Full Member

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    Arguably, the big 5 of the 80s were the best WWs ever...how today's WW compared in quality and depth in the division...
     
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  2. candlelitekid

    candlelitekid Member Full Member

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    Hearn's Hagler Durran Leonard...who was no five...I have a hangover
     
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  3. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Benitez? Although he had more fights at 154, I think.

    But Hagler was not a WW. And Duran was better at lower weights.
     
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  4. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Not even close. Todays WW aside from a prime Pac would be average against the 80's boys.
     
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  5. OrishamanNow

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    Duran, SRL, Hearn, MMH & The Radar....
     
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  6. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Hagler was a MW and Duran had like 6 fights at WW.
    Don't forget guys like Cuevas, Palomino, Curry, Starling, Honeyghan ect
     
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  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Prime Jose Luis Lopez would clean up at 147 today and if he actually bothered to train instead of spending camp down at the beach getting high and catching waves it would get real ugly.
     
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  8. OrishamanNow

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    Agreed ... should extended to boxers fought each other in the 147-160... the period of 78-85
     
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    Benitez... El Radar!
     
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  10. Odins beard

    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    Lower tier top 10 bar Pacquaio.
     
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  11. Oakland Billy Smith

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    I thought the Tito, ODH, Quartey era was pretty solid, especially with Mosely on the way up to welter.

    I believe that era would give both the 80s and today's welters a tough run for their money.

    Honorable mention to the Mayweather Pacquiao era of 2010
     
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  12. OrishamanNow

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    Interesting the 09s had some great boxers that most fought each other:
    Tito, ODLH, Sweet Pea, Ike, Oba, Blocker, Vernon, Page, Mosley... Mayorga, Joppy, Vargas....
     
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  13. OrishamanNow

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    Again... how today's compare to those eras:
    Spence, Bud, Garcia, Thurman, Porter, Josesito....maybe....
     
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  14. catchwtboxing

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    Would like to point out that a certain Sugar Ray Robinson started at welter, and fought Kid Gavilan there. That would be the best era ever.
     
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  15. SquaredCircle

    SquaredCircle Active Member Full Member

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    Leonard, Hearns, Benitez, and Duran beat all of the current welterweights. These guys are some of the best ever, so it's not a knock on Spence, Crawford, Pacquiao, etc. that they would fall short. A more fair comparison would be Spence and Crawford versus guys like Forrest, Mosley, Quartey, etc.
     
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