is Pernel Whitaker Overrated?

Have you not understood my point? Napoles was the same size as Whitaker. If you compare two fighters that are the same size, beating cokes is HECK of a lot more impressive than beating a freakin featherweight.

Sure I could name them all because I know for a fact that cokes has beaten more ranked opponents than nelson has, as a matter of fact hes beaten twice as many opponents that were at one time or another top 10 ranked. I also find it funny that you have to include nelson's wins post 1990, the time period in which he was also losing alot and old. Again, shows nelson didnt have too many top wins prior to 1991.

Luis Rodriguez
Manuel Gonzalez
kenny lane
jean josselin
stan harrington
ramon rodriguez
billy collins
fortunata monca
francois pavilla
charley sipes
willie luddick

not to mention much more depth.

 

Haha its easy to criticise cokes's resume because in his era, alpha soup belts didnt exist, you were only champ if you were the best in your division. Most guys nelson beat were abc alpha soup champs, put them in the 1960's and they are contenders, nothing more. Azumah's resume prior to 1991 is nothing special and after that he lost alot.

 

A lucky right? Cokes has two wins over rodriguez, he defended his lineal belt 5 times. Adjust it by era and thats basically 5 wins over guys that probably would have carried some bogus alpha soup belt like the ibf or wbo in today's era. Besides fenech and gomez, most of the guys nelson beat would be contenders in the 1960s, they wouldnt have any lineal belt.

 

Nelson has beaten fewer fighters that have ever been ranked, hes got half the amount of fights and cokes has the best single win between them, dont really need belts to prove a point.

 

LOL which of nelson's wins are better than a stoppage over a hall of fame welterweight and another win over that same welterweight? Gomez and fenech were blown up fighters from smaller weights, cokes beat a hall of fame lineal champ in his own weight class, he didnt need to bully little guys, he beat the man in his division.

 

Sweet Scientist was the genious that claimed whitaker beating nelson is better than anything floyd or manny have accomplished. Like really, any good lightweight champ would have beat azumah nelson.

Azumah dominated a non-traditional weight class in an alpha soup era and never unified the belts. Cokes was the LINEAL Champ of a Historic weight class and made 5 title defense and beat luis manuel rodriguez by stoppage before he even won the belt. So basically for 3 years, he was the top guy in traditional 8 weight class.