Pacquaio Marquez was the closest from recent memory. Were DLH and Trinidad 1-2 back then? I keep thinking P4P has been dominated the past two decades by RJJR and Floyd. Am I forgetting something?
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine%27s_Annual_Ratings:_Pound_For_Pound--1990s At the end of 1998, The Ring had De La Hoya as #1 and Trinidad at #4. I'm sure Holyfield dropped after the fight with Lewis from the #3 spot, but I doubt Jones dropped after the fights with Frazier and Johnson.
Whitaker was no1 then, with Chavez 2, Toney 3, and Jones Jr 8th. In 2000, Mosley was #1 and De La Hoya #4.
Mosley only became #1 after beating De La Hoya I believe. I'm pretty sure RJJ and maybe even Trinidad were ranked higher than Sugar Shane before that fight. The last time the universally regarded top 2 fighters met in the ring was Whitaker-Chavez in '93.
No he wasnt, he was top 5...Its funny how things seem to change depending on the outcome of a fight...
Who cares where Hatton was. He was not #2 and the thread is about #1 vs #2 so his ranking is irrelevant in relation to this thread.
The Ring had him at #8 at the end of 2006. Some of the guys above him probably dropped (especially Taylor) in those 11 months of 2007 before the PBF fight, but Calzaghe probably rose above him. http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine%27s_Annual_Ratings:_Pound_For_Pound--2000s
FFS relax, I was just shooting the breeze. Why not have a go at the poster who mentioned DLH and Tito being numbers 1 and 4??
Trinidad so deserved that #1 spot at the time. He was on a role destroying everything in his path all the way to 160lbs. Thats ridiculous lol