Top 5 Super Flyweights Of All Time?

Watanabe, Roman, Konadu, and Moon without question. The last spot would be between Galaxy and Tapia, depending on what you prefer. I might give the slight edge to Tapia. I'd also put Gustavo Ballas ahead of the other men you named.

 

Well Tapia is my pick as the best, just thought i'd get that out there. I like Watanabe as a boxer head to head though, and he had a quality career, Moon did as well in a short space of time. Moon has a fine resume. There's no clear cut number one imo.

 

He fought lesser opposition at the weight than any of the men outside of perhaps Tapia, in my opinion. What swings it in Tapia's favor for me is that I believe him to have been the slightly superior fighter/more versatile head to head threat. I do think Galaxy is capable of beating a good many of those guys, though, and would have no argument whatsoever with any placing him inside the top 5 or even top 3.

Watanabe didn't face the best opposition on the whole, either, but he's my pick as the best of the bunch on film.

 

For me he's up there. I'm not one of these people who just disregards him because of his resume. But others beat better fighters. Galaxy can't be denied as a fighter that deserves credit to me, it's hard to say, let's look at Roman for instance, had a quality career, and beat Jiro Watanabe. Who should be higher at the weight in your opinion?

 

I think it is true...

 

Watanabe was at the end of his ropes when Roman beat him, though. The same goes for Roman when Konadu and Moon beat him. Moon's wins over Konadu are the best of the bunch all things considered.

 

Yeah, a lot of the time, when someone who may have been considered a great champion/titlist like Galaxy or Foster, if they don't have a great resume, then people seem to assume that that means they would be beaten by any great fighters. But that's speculation. For all we know, Galaxy would have treated Roman just like one of his routine defences. I doubt it, but you get what i mean? It's like with Mayweather, 'he'd get absolutely destroyed by so and so', well he's never come within a mile of that happening to him in reality so it's a stretch to assume that would happen to him just because he is fighting someone of a higher caliber than those he has beaten, and easily for the most part. The height of speculation is seen on forums sometimes.

Anyway, Galaxy, not my number one at this weight, simply because of resume, but because this weight is so tight and non-descript in terms of its history, he's definitely being considered as top five material.

I'm off for a few hours now mate.

 

On film its Tapia or Watanabe for me. Resume wise though, the Watanabe win is big for Roman. Watanabe just looks a better fighter than Roman, but resume is resume, it's close, and if Roman wouldn't have gotten that win over Laciar, i'd probably have Watanabe over him regardless. Roman's a huge darkhorse here imo.

 

Penalosa's a guy I haven't watched too much of, actually. Neither of the fights you mentioned, anyway. He seems a poised, technically sound sort of minimalist type from what I've seen. Not on the same tier talent-wise compared to the aforementioned guys. I'll get around to checking those fights out, though.

It slipped my mind, but Laciar also fares very well against the pack of fighters I mentioned. Those guys were all on the same tier, in my opinion.

I agree with you on Moon being a bad styles matchup for Konadu in general, and I'd assume the same to be true for Roman if only given Moon's physical advantages against him. A bout between Moon and Galaxy is a very hard call, pretty much 50/50. Watanabe and Tapia are probably the best calls to beat Moon.