Chavez, Arguello, Camacho and the rest of the 80s lightweight-junior lightweight crop would be his main threats. Probably has to face and defeat at least one of those first 3 and put a few defences together to be seen as one of the elite P4P fighters.This is asuming he turns pro circa 79-80 and follows a similar arc to a title fight as he actually did.Those would be his likely goals. That's a worthwhile discussion there.and more interesting than matching the older blown up version against great welterweights like Leonard and Hearns. Anyone thinking he beats even Donald Curry are just deluding themselves.Who gives a **** how he does against Tommy Hearns.
46-3. Titles in four divisions. Regularly called the best fighter of you never saw. Flea constantly says that if he were around today he would be undefeated and called one of the best of all time.
In there primes I see Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Benitez and Chavez straight murdering him...Guys like Curry. McCallum, Honeyghan and Jackson would still give him a run for his money, So I maybe see him at the bottom of the the top 10 contenders of the 80's.
If he were to come into the picture at junior lightweight around 83/84, Arguello is out of the frame by then and he'd be confronted at varying stages with the likes of Camacho, Martinez, Uncle Roger (Doctor Who paradox right there), Lockridge, Chavez and maybe Laporte, plus the diminished versions of Gomez and Castillo. I could see him fancying his chances at bullying Gomez, Castillo and Uncle Rog (therefore tearing a hole in the space-time continuum) but being very wary about Camacho, Lockridge and Laporte, though Laporte poleaxing Lockridge might be enough to sway him into taking Lockridge on. And that isn't a fight I'd be comfortable betting a large sum of money on tbh. I think he might end up facing Martinez at some point, who was a very good fighter in his own right, and a few past/future - likely the former - Chavez/Camacho victims. The only time(s) I could envision him being willing to put himself on the line against Chavez is around 84/85 prior to Chavez being prime and having really gained a major reputation, or maybe after him treading water with Lockridge and Laporte when the weight limit was affecting him. Once Chavez was in the groove at 135, I don't see Floyd going within a ten mile radius of him. Even if he were to scrape by a green or weight-drained Chavez, does it become his Castillo moment where from that point he won't tackle an opponent he thinks might stand a chance? Rosario and Ramirez at 135? Maybe. I could see him finally being up for facing a post-Rosario Camacho or someone like Nazario mixed in with a couple of gimmes. Uncle Roger again, once again ****ing up the timeline beyond repair. By the time Whitaker hits the scene, I think Floyd might have already jumped up to 140 by that point, in with McGirt, Taylor and co. Maybe a Frankie ****** or Davis Jr. Keep with form and take on Buddy after Meldrick had banjoed him (and later Meldrick after Norris banjoed him), all the while steering clear of Whitaker and Chavez who are calling him out at every opportunity. Follow Buddy up to welter and toy with the idea of........ah, you get the picture. It'd be interesting seeing him trying to circumnavigate the sharks over a few years and divisions, because there were plenty of them. Then again, if he were born in another time, he might not turn out at all to be the insecure little squit that he is. Or then again, once him and Uncle Roger had created a wormhole-paradox-thingy, he'd probably go forward to the year 2001 and plan who to cherry pick from the safety of the future. Might think twice before chinning his missus too........ Twat.
You fool! You foolish fool! If you strike me down now I shall become more powerful than you could ever know!
Now do you see. My plan is sheer elegance in it's simplicity. The internet will run out of gifs before I run out of pop culture references.