The Unpopular Opinion Thread

The greatest following that boxing ever attained per capita, was in Britain in the early 1800s!

 

Joel Casamayor was a better fighter than MAB.

 

Interesting choices here :good

 

True.

 

Re. Ali and Frazier.

The Ali of the second fight would have scored a close,maybe split,decision over the Frazier of the first one.

 

Holmes gets criticized by many posters on his match-making of inexperienced fighters and refusal to unify.

The other crop claims he's the most underrated talent at HW and could've beaten Ali 2/3 times. So yeah, he's a mix bag with people but always rated in the top 10 (Usually in the top 5).

 

Yeah, there's no way Big George would be able to break into the current top 20 and mix it with high-level technicians like Sam Peter, Cris Arreola, and Tony Thompson.

 

I think the HW division, both historically and currently, is insanely overrated.

 

I disagree. I'm not a big Morales fan, but I think the way he could brawl on the front foot or box on the back foot showed he was more than a wooden or one-dimensional fighter. Of course he had his flaws (I always thought his defence was poor), but I think his ability was better than you give him credit for here.

 

Oscar's best win was what, Vargas? A controversial decision over Quartey? A controversial decision over a well past-prime Whitaker?

How exactly are any of these even close to being equal to Pacquiao dominating and stopping a prime Barrera?

 

Even as a Pacquiao fan, this is pretty ludicrous. Whitaker always threw a lot of punches. He would beat Manny quite comfortably at lw or ww.

 

An SD over Jose Rafael Barboza (20-8-3) also tells me that he would have given Pryor, Pacquiao, Mayweather, ODLH and Tszyu "all they wanted".

Yeah, a southpaw with a great jab, Mayweather just eats that **** up.

 

He doesn't have a reasonable chance to beat Winky Wright or Thomas Hearns at 154. Both would box the chops off him, stylistically he's in no man's land there. Hearns is just a much bigger, much better outboxer, and a guy Winky's size hitting him with a ramrod jab from behind the castle walls would be insurmountable at a weight where Floyd was not comfortable.

 

This doesn't even make sense. How is he living off the Gomez win when it wasn't even as good as the Lopez wins? Castillo, Laporte and Nelson were also good wins. Sanchez's opposition 1980-82 was excellent. Nelson didn't lose again until he fought a prime Whitaker at Whitaker's best weight 8 years later.

 

I very much agree with this. Horribly, horribly overrated fight.