LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER SIX

Chavez was rated 6th best fighter in the last 50 years by the ring magazine in `96 and Arguello 8th they were both better defensively than Pac. Duran was also much better than Pac defensively. I feel Armstrong v Arguello would have been like Pryor vs Arguello except I don`t feel Hank could take Arguello`s power at lightweight as well Pryor did at light welter, Alexis was unproven at light welter.
I`d say the two best here were Duran and Floyd, but I feel Duran proved himself against better opposition so I`d go for him, but I`m not sure at all.

 

That's an awesome lineup. Off the top of my head I'd go with Duran.

 

I concur. Duran wasted no time beating the **** out of his opponents and had the stamina and endurance to fight 15 rounds.

 

The problem I think he is saying is that Pac literally had one fight at LW. So it's a little hard to say/judge. Floyd only had four. Modern weight-jumpers complicate these sort of things.

 

I think lw Duran might have beaten Floyd as well!

 

This is the argument I have with the Lomachenko praise because anybody can do it. When Broner was doing this same thing a few years ago nobody said Broner was better than anyone, they looked at his opponents and saw it for what it was, opponent cherry picking.
Now Loma is just hoping division beating up easy targets and using his promoter to get out of any hard fights. Same thing Pacquiao did. One fight with Diaz and he was off to fight De La Hoya, that don't count as dominating a division.

 

You're right. So Floyd had 5 fights at Lightweight. Still not much in that especially when only two were against a great opponent.

 

I think Mosely and Whitaker should have been on the list, definitely. What a round robin that would have been

 

Duran

 

There's no reason to fixate on resume when you're evaluating head-to-head matchups. It's all conjecture, anyway. Resume comparisons are more significant when assessing respective *achievement* in a given division.

I still wouldn't include Pac here, tho, because I think his best matchups are at 126 & 130. I would place Mayweather at 135, however.

 

There`s logic to what you`re saying but all three of those guys would have destroyed Castillo.