It's funny how some people here have built up PBF like he's the best fighter ever

it's even more funny watching people that hate say he's going to lose time and time agian only to see him drill his opps into the ground

 

I couldn't agree more and that's why I love rubbing it in their faces after all his wins. I'll probably miss that more than anything else.

 

was talking about cotto but no your right ..mayweather catches alot of this too .. one guy after the other was too beat him but it wasn't to be!! ....

cotto and mayweather are both victims of this

 

Saturday Cotto will be a victom of the Tiajuana Tornado:good

 

get your excuses ready .. .

 

. . . ring skills wise . . . I think he is. :yep

It's unfortunate that . . . it's gonna end up just an arguement and unproven inside the ring. He ducked the best dangerous oppositions.

 

I dont need any excuses I like both guys if Cotto wins the better man won if Margarito wins the better man won. simple as that, my hats off to both men for taking such a risky fight, more so to Cotto, this is the kind of fight that can and in my eyes derail him from the seen for a bit.
Sure Cotto can box, but the question is whats he going to do to be successful at it? how is Cotto going to get inside of Margarito and rip his shots off and stay out of harms way?
the way I see it, he will have some early luck at it, but one mistake and Cotto is out of there.
I dont think this fight is going past six rounds to be honest with you.

 

You really are being very silly here. Of course it has everything to do with it. A fighter isn't part of the era where he started boxing, he is part of the era when he was a world champion and when his peak occurred. Calzaghe's reign as world champion spanned almost exactly the same years as PBF's: Cal 1997-now, PBF 1998-2008. Of course they were very obviously therefore part of the exact same era. Age has nothing to do with it. There are 12 months in age between Bernard Hopkins and Mike Tyson, but Tyson's peak was in the late 1980s and Hopkins's was late 1990s/early 2000s.

 

I disagree. It is completely unrealistic, impossible and just plain wrong to try and group fighters together who started or retired in exactly the same years, or we'd have hundreds and hundreds of 'eras' of fighters starting early 20th century that overlap ridiculously. An 'era' or 'generation' cannot be determined by one man's career, the word itself is larger and more fluid than that. An era must be a significant time period where things can generally be grouped together.

My own opinion is that RJJ's peak lasted from his 1993 fight with Hopkins til his fight with Ruiz in 2003. His only loss in this time was a DQ, so I think this is fair.

PBF won his 1st world title in 1998 and won The Ring Fighter Of The Year for that year. It is widely acknowledged that PBF was better as a super-feather and a lightweight than as a light-welterweight and a welterweight. He didn't move up to light-welterweight til 2005.

Therefore their peaks overlapped for the years 1998-2003. I think 5 years is sufficient to state with certainty that they were from the same era.

 

ummmmm

nah

 

I am no PBF fan, but I do try to be objective.

 

He's undefeated. He has fought world champions at every weight class and won. It does not matter if he did not fight everyone you felt he should fight. No one has. Especially when you move out of your weight class. The Rock had his Louis, Leonard had his Hagler, Floyd had Oscar, Chico, Gatti, Hatton, Judah, Baldomir I remember many posts on this and many other sites who predicted Floyd's dimise in these fights, well he still standing, Unlike Vlad Floyd has fought prime competition.

 

i wish i was a fan of pbf during the time of these fights so i could truly know how teh boxing world felt...

i know people must have been fiending for gatti to drop floyd lol