I think Barkley stomps a hole in Canelos chest~

I haven't come up with the joke yet. I'm still working on it. I also hired a neighbourhood kid to read through the four pages of the thread to see if it's been done in some iteration or not yet. Iteration may not even be the right word but I'm going to ask the kid to use that Google they use and check on that too. So, if this comment gets edited, it's probably to change that.

 

At light heavy Barkley kills him

 

One win outweighs seven years worth of dominace at world level? And it was against a guy who he'd quit against.

LW Duran > WW.

 

Maybe so, but that doesn't change the fact that Duran's worst work is also at welterweight, and that Duran was a natural lightweight. Barkley lost to a lightweight in his late 30s, who happened to have his best win (and worst loss) at 147.

 

I've always felt his style is most similar to Toney. Not the same, but somewhat similar.
He definitely was front-foot counter-puncher against Kirkland, Khan & Chavez.

 

I've watched that fight back & Angulo was game. He kept coming forward while throwing punches - whether they landed or not. Very much similar to how Barkley would fight.

 

Unspoken forum rule.

If the guy you are arguing with has the fighters nickname as their user name, you are probably wasting your time trying to change that opinion.

 

A great fight that was

 

In my top 10 most watched for sure

 

It is not unreasonable to suggest that Barkley would outwork him.

 

Started reading through the thread to see if anyone had yet mentioned James Toney's destruction of Iran Barkley. Whether folks think Canelo's less than, equal to, or better than Toney is a whole different can of worms to open up some other day long from now (although I'm sure it's been opened here before) I think it would be beyond ludicrous to, and likely prove one's inability to set dislikes aside for a moment so as to be as objective as possible, to think that Canelo couldn't at the very least, do a proper enough imitation of how Toney fought Barkley. You know the drill, "there's levels in boxing..." and so on and so forth.