Top 10 Welterweights 1980-PRESENT

Just chucking names out

Leonard
Hoya
Curry
Mosley
Quartey
Sweet Pea
Hearns
McGirt
Cueves
Tito
Brown
Starling
Breland
They all fall in that time frame...

 

pretty much got all the names there

heres a few more

Benitez

Cotto
Margarito
Williams
(i dont think there in the top 25 but they are ner it maybe at the bottom of it)

 

I feel we are about to see some underrating of Tito Trinidad, call me a psychic if you will...........

 

Yeah, fifteen title defenses has to count for something. . . . . .

 

And what a finisher, can we turn this into the Tito Trinidad appreciation thread by any chance?

kidding

 

Leonard, Curry, Hearns and MAYBE Benitez are the only ones I'd clearly rank higher than Tito. Tito wasn't as plodding with his footwork at 147 as when he moved up. He was definitely a great and underrated welterweight.

 

I think you could even have him above Curry but it depends on how you view each man's career at the weight and a lot would depend on how you analyse some small details resulting in which way you swing it. But i wouldn't argue with a good and proper case for Curry above him. I think that within his own boundaries stylistically (ie limitations), he has a very very big chance of beating any welter who plays into his hands, regardless of how great they were within their own right.

 

Tough list, I rated all fighters purely on fights they had between 140 and an ounce to 147 and cut off any fighter who is active but not been world class since 2005 as to save myself some future embarrassment!


10 Marlon Starling
9 Antonio Margarito*
8 Miguel Cotto
7 Pernell Whitaker
6 Tommy Hearns
5 Don Curry
4 Shane Mosley
3 Oscar de la Hoya
2 Felix Trinidad
1 Ray Leonard

Mentions: Pipino Cuevas, Roberto Duran, Milton McCrory, Lloyd Honeyghan, Mark Breland, Simon Brown, Maurice Blocker, Buddy McGirt, Meldrick Taylor, Cristano Espana, Ike Quartey, Jose Luis Lopez, James Page, Daniel Santos, Vernon Forrest, Ricardo Mayorga, Cory Spinks, Zab Zab Judah and Kermit Cintron

*On the presumption that the glove incident was a one off....

 

Oscar De La Hoya should clearly be above tito. He beat better competition at 147lb, never avoided anyone, and he clearly gave tito a boxing lesson in there fight clearly winning at least 7-8 out of the 12 rounds.

 

TBooze intresting you have pea so low hes number 2 for me

 

I have a lengthy debate for this, i gotta go out right now though.

Erm wait there, you actually know it off by heart by now!

 

Purely on his 147lbs form?

 

yeh it was pretty good but i will reconsider it and think for the weekend

 

I think de la Hoya edged it too. But Trinidad spent longer in the division, his opposition was very good, plus he officially never lost at 147.....

de la Hoya/Trinidad is a debatable decision, not a robbery.

de la Hoya was a brilliant fighter, overall the better of the two, but that is with his overall body of work, not purely as a 147lber.