The 10 Greatest Bantamweights

I’ll be reading this sometime this afternoon.

 

If I ever am in Southampton again I might just take you up on that.

 

I admire this, I really do.

That being said I've found over the years the way I view the sport has diverged greatly from those who compile such lists.

I used to be obsessed with things such as resume and linearity and I found through that hard pursuit of data it became more of a chore for me to follow boxing.

So I made a conscious uncoupling with the objective side of the sport and decided to fully embrace the subjective side of things. I'm no longer as interested in "who beat who" as I am in "who would beat who"

With that in mind my lists are entirely h2h based. On a mythical attribute of winnability in a mythical gauntlet of time defying peers. I find it more objective this way. If I wanna see how good Orlando Canizales is, I just watch him fight and watch some other BW guys fight and make a judgement call based on my gut. No hard data involved.

But I go back to my point, I admire this. I enjoy reading articles such as this, so great work my man. Great work indeed.

 

I just read it and really enjoyed this one. Thoroughly researched and excellently written with a ton of insight and information I’d not previously known much about. I’d heard that KO of Wilde was particularly violent with Wilde landing on his head and basically being finished because of that fight.

Do you have any timeframe on when you think your Wilde book will come to print?

As far as Herman’s ranking you make an excellent case and I’ve generally listed him around that 3-6 mark myself.

 

Did you ever read the books on Wilde previously released? I was looking on amazon but they were a little steep.

I want to find a good book on that early 20th century era of Welsh boxing. I went to Wales for Calzaghe-Kessler. What a night! I’m from the UK but moved to Los Angeles a decade ago.

I get what your saying though it’s definately a hard one to research.

 

Wow! Didn’t know that you were writing a book on Wilde...I would be very interested and among the first to purchase a copy!

 

Olivares is obviously one of them… and the other could be McGovern (I would guess).

 

Herman at #3 was a bit of a surprise ( never saw him that high ), but sort of expected given who's left.

Based on Lynch beating Herman twice, you can argue he deserves a spot in your top ten under your criteria, but I'd leave him out being that only two spots are left.

Olivares is too good not to make the top ten, and his name has not been called. My guess is he's #1.

As for #2, whomever you pick is going to need a great write up given the names he's placed over. McGovern would be your safest pick with wins over Dixon ( KO ) and Palmer.