TITO. MOSLEY. CALZAGHE. R LOPEZ. Who was most impressive/effective in their prime?

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  1. stonerose

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    Hard to seperate them for me. Certainly have mosley at the bottom, out o the other three probably Trinidad, Calzaghe then Lopez.
     
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  2. sugar_ray

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    when was calzaghes prime? against tocker pudwill i guess. LOL

    i think its ricardo lopez and then a close one between tito and mosley.

    but yea calzaghes prime was great too! whenever it was.
     
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  3. stonerose

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    probably from the Mitchell fight onwards. His peak was the Lacy and Kessler performances .
    Being undefeated, you could say his prime has lasted for the last ten years
     
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  4. Flea Man

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    Tito has the better opposition.

    Calzaghe has seemed the hardest to beat.

    Mosley has been somewhat inconsistent but, when on-form, was top class and looked an ATG. Don't think he will be though (lest he beats Margo in style)

    So I'd have to go for Lopez. Whilst his opposition was never fantastic, he dominated everyone (bar Alvarez, and beat him eventually too) and in terms of combination punching, one of the best of all time. You can see as a matter of fact that his skills would've got him through against the likes of Carbajal (which would've been a fight for the ages)
     
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  5. jaed

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    I have to give the nod to shane. He got the sugar moniker for a good reason he was an absolute beast @ lightweight and he also moved up and fought some of the most dangerous avoided fighters out there. plus the fact that even now he is fighting the best most dangerous fighters in his weight class. Bhop and Roy WERE great fighters in their prime but Calzaghe looses points for fighting faded fighters at this point, Tito was a force but wasn't the most technical, when faced with guy his own size who could box he wasn't that great. Don't know much about lopez so my order is Shane @ 135 then Joe than Tito
     
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  6. elchivito

    elchivito master betty Full Member

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    if lopez fought the way he did at middleweight, he'd be the second coming of Sugar Ray Robinson. both excellent boxer/punchers second to none, but had trouble with swarmers(LaMotta/Gavilan) (Alvares) or guys with rock hard chins
     
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  7. DINAMITA

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    Nah mate, as I said when I wrote my top 100, that was to be my first, definitive and only list like that. I just really enjoyed my Arguello-Chavez-Hagler thread the other day so thought I'd post some more with fighters of similar greatness as the selection. In my experience, question like this usually stimulates good debate as people are much more inclined to say positive things about their personal choices than the usual negative **** about the others.
     
    DINAMITA, Dec 31, 2008
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  8. sean

    sean pale peice of pig`s ear Full Member

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    in there prime.
    mosely out of the 4.

    but we only saw the best of mosely at lightweight, the welter/light middle version of mosely was good but not great and it was not prime mosely.
     
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  9. EL-MATADOR

    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Great post :good
     
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