Standouts fighters you wish were tested in other eras/divisions.

For me the answer is quite simple .... all of them. Getting to watch fighters go up against greats from other eras is a boxing fans dream come true.

Most of the answers so far seem to be about champions who fought in weak eras, as if this would prove to us how good they were or weren't. For me this is more about seeing how guys like Ray Robinson and Ray Leonard would do in other eras against other greats.

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr in the 1980s…so many great opponents across his weight classes.

 

I’d like to have seen Marvin Hagler step up to light heavyweight against Michael Spinks, Dwight Qawi or some others of that era.

I don’t think he’d be successful, but it would be interesting to see him try it. He made his rep by cleaning out a so-so middleweight division but made his biggest money fighting Ray Leonard (welter), Thomas Hearns (welter) and Roberto Duran (lightweight), so if it’s good for the goose it would be good for the Hagler.

Likewise, I’d like to see what Salvador Sanchez would have looked like against some of the 130-pounders (Chacon, Boza, Limon) and lightweights (Arguello, Mancini) of the day. He had the frame to carry it, but how would he fare? Had fate been kinder, we would likely have seen it.

 

Shane Mosley in any other LW division

 

I also would want to see John L. and Jeffries in eras with better fighters their own size

 

Fair enough. I'll go with Wladimir Klitschko, Joe Louis and lightweight Roberto Duran.

 

It would be great to see Archie Moore navigate the last-70s/early-80s LHW scene.

Michael Spinks

Matthew Saad Muhammad

Marvin Johnson

Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

Dwight Qawi

James Scott

Victor Galindez

Yaqui Lopez

John Conteh

Mike Rossman

Not sure if the Mongoose could get through that gauntlet undefeated, especially Spinks.

IMO, that’s the best top 10 in any single division who overlapped each other in any era. A few of them were kind of on their way out as the new guard came in (i.e. Conteh, Victor at the end of their ropes, while Spinks and Qawi were rising), but that’s a heck of a lot of sharks prowling the same waters simultaneously.

 

James Toney in the 1940s, not only the competition but he would have to be so active and with less fast food available he hopefully doesn't balloon between fights.

Roy Jones in the 80s

Ricardo Lopez.....he had some great fights to take 3 pounds north of him and it didn't happen so I'm not sure where to throw him when 105 was crazy. Maybe in an era when he would have to compete at 112

Mike Tyson in the 2020s

Anthony Joshua in the 1940s....just for curiosity sake

Harry Greb in any era that has a good camera

Larry Holmes...let's move him 15 years earlier.

 

Aaron Pryor. He'd cause havoc, but i feel he's a bit overrated.

 

More knockdowns, would he get up? That would be interesting.

 

Monzon against the 4 kings would have been amazing