Subjective, i know, but i am curious. Heavyweight: Holmes Cruiserweight: Usyk Light-heavy : Charles Super Middle: Canelo Middle: Hagler JMW: McCullum WW: SRR LWW: Mayweather LW: Duran JLW: Arguello FW: Sanchez BW: Jofre
HW - Joe Louis CW - Not sure...? Probably James Toney x2 LHW - Gene Tunney SMW - James Toney MW - Carlos Monzon WW - Jose Napoles LWW - Barney Ross LW - Benny Leonard JLW - Alexis Arguello FW - Willie Pep BW - Eder Jofre FW - Miguel Canto
You should learn about them you’re getting a watered down experience I’ll take the time to write you a quick list of fighters to watch if you’d like.
Archie Moore (before HW) Sugar Ray Robinson Carmen Basilo Jose Napoles Henry Armstrong Buddy McGirt James Toney Gene Fullmer Sugar Ray Robinson Barney Ross Rodrigo Valdez Ruben Olivares Alexis Arguello Sugar Ray Leonard Dwight Qawi Jake LaMotta Fighting Harada Julio Cesar Chavez Armando Muniz This is a good mix I think and all of them are pretty exciting to good most of the time. Lots of these guys have a lot of cross over to different eras with a reasonable amount of film. it will expose you to plenty of great opponent boxers you might want to further your education of. If I had to pick and I started over I’d go with Carmen Basilio vs Sugar Ray Robinson first or Jose Napoles vs Armando Muniz and pick one of those four from two of those fights to explore.
If you ever need to track down some quality footage for any of those fighters let me know I have a few book marked channels for probably all those guys.
HW- Usyk CW- Usyk LHW- Beterbiev SMW- Toney MW- Golovkin JMW- McCallum WW- Pacquiao SLW- Carlos Ortiz LW- Duran SFW- FMJ FW- Azumah Nelson SBW- Inoue BW- Inoue SFW- Ioka FW- Arbachakov JFW- Chocolatito MW- El Finito
Heavyweight: Holmes = Holmes is a good choice other good candidates are Holyfield or Liston. Cruiserweight: Usyk = Usyk is a good choice again Holyfield is also a good candidate. Light-heavy : Charles = Charles or Moore are solid picks. Super Middle: Canelo = I'd go with Toney instead of Canelo. Middle: Hagler = Any of the top 5 Middleweights would be good candidates Hopkins, Hagler, Monzon. JMW: McCullum = Another good canadidate Winky Wright but i think McCallum is the best answer honestly. WW: SRR = There's no footage of Robinson at Welterweight so i'll go with Napoles or SRL. LWW: Mayweather = I'll go with Benitez. LW: Duran = Nothing to add here. JLW: Arguello = I'll add Mayweather for Super Featherweight FW: Sanchez = Agreed BW: Jofre = I really like Orlando Canizales he had no real glaring weaknesses in his prime. For fighters below these weights i'd add fighters like Miguel Canto, Ricardo Lopez, Naoya Inoue, Roman Gonzalez, Mark Johnson, etc.
The version of Muhammad Ali that fought Zora Folley in 1967 I would take against ANY fighter pound for pound in ANY weight class! (And to think he still hadn't reached his zenith as yet--astounding!!)
HW - Ali CW - Holyfield LHW - Charles SMW - RJJ MW - Monzon jrMW - Robinson WW - Robinson jrWW - Pryor LW - Leonard jrLW - Arguello FW - Sanchez jrFW - Gomez BW - Olivares jrBW - Tapia? fly - Wilde
