My top 20 Welterweights, all time

Yeah, when one's feeling flat or down they can always log into ESB and cheer themselves up on some good old Redrooster humour. Like, in every post

 

Yes i saw that, double sweet for you then hahaha. I mean have a look at his list, you could drive a truck thru some of the holes in it.

 

I'll pay that one, but i must say other "things" stood out as well

 

Lloyd ruined Curry's career.

 

Deservedly so.

 

Cuevas wouldn't have lost to leonard.

 

1. Ray Robinson
2. Jose Napoles
3. Emile Griffith
4. Kid Gavilan
5. Henry Armstrong

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9. Luis Rodriguez
10. Jimmy McLarnin
11. Carmen Basilio

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18. Ray Leonard
19. Thomas Hearns
20. Wilfred Benitez

The last three just plainly weren't that good. Hearns was - at middleweight - but at welterweight he was a fragile rake who was easy to break. Benitez was better at 140lbs.

 

Another Leonard hater. Zzzzz. :dead

No way should the other two be that low either. Just out of interest where do you rank Whitaker, Duran and Walker?

 

hates got nothing to do with it. Its all based on merit.

 

it's actually the best list of all next to Manassa's. I could have put more thought into it but it was tougher than I first thought but the top ten was pretty much right.

 

Hater? Try looking at Leonard's career realistically and objectively, ignoring the sickly smiles and fake innocence, you'll see it for what it is.

Duran is #16 or #17 - after all, his best welterweight win was Leonard, who isn't that great. Duran was far better at lightweight.

Whitaker is roughly #12.

Walker is around #8.

 

Cheers. I may fill in the gaps later.