which champion of the past could...

:huh

 

co-sign.

Please clarify post.

Are you asking if there is guy (and we can choose from the whole history of the fight game) who could walk into a title fight with any of todays beltholders/divisional No.1's and win with ease????

Of course there is; for most divisions there would be about 100 names you could pick from.

 

In weight classes that are prety weak at present a whole sh1t load could do it.

We might conclude for example that if Ezzard Charles was starting out at light heavyweight today he would have a prety bright future.

In the stronger weight classes it gets more interesting.

 

i think he might mean is there a 105 pound 6 foot 5 fighter from the past who could march from straw weight to heavy winning everything in his wake ?
just like bernard hopkins :huh

 

I'm not sure if I'm addressing the post properly, but here is my interpretation.

Heavyweight - Mike Tyson circa 1987-88, could have cleaned house on today's heavyweights.

Cruiserweight - Evander Holyfield

Lightheavyweight - Mike Spinks, would likely have dominated today's lightheavyweight picture, especially considering that most of its current participants are between 36-45 years of age, and came from lighter weight classes.

Super middle - Difficult to say. The division is not that old, but I think a prime Roy Jones could have beaten all of today's super middles.

Middleweight - Hagler would have had a better than average chance here.

Jr. Middle - I'll go with Mike McCallum

Welter - Simon Brown, Ray Leonard, or Henry Armstrong are good candidates.

Jr. Welter - Julio Cesar Chaves, Aron Pryor and Oscar D. Are all worthy mentions

Lightweight - Pernell Whitaker, Benny Leonard and a few others...

I'll stop there......

 

I don't think thats it.

Didn't Georges Carpentier cover a lot of divisions over the span of his career.

In the modern day I think Pacquiao started off as a straweight; in his next fight he faces DLH at Welterweight (quite a big spread as well).

 

armstrong i would like to see against a more schooled defencive fighter. he would glide over the 126 to 135 i feel but 147 could be a big difference. beating barney ross was a good achiemvent but in th edays of 12 rounders armstrong would of walked away with a draw.

i think robinson could go from 147 to 160 and maybe a title at 168. but there would be a ton of us saying how open his defence. he would have a about 3 losses.

 

yeah carpentier was a featherweight when he was about 15 or so. cant remember the facts. but yeah he was. the wieghts arent there on boxrec but he was a sanctioned feather.



sam langford could be put into the equasion. i just dont know how he would of faired with differents rulings.

 

He'd start at 160 wouldn't he.

 

i like a prime Duran. he gives anyone 130-154lbs problems. i would of really liked to of have seen a rematch with tommy or benitez. i think tommy beat him fairly, but he seemed to not give a **** vs. benitez. anyways, he always had that one punch ko power in the right.

 

I think Duran cleans up from light to middle quite easily elchiv...he would be a serious chance of at least grabbing a title at supermiddle aswell.

 

Salvador Sanchez,Ray Robinson,Henry Armsrong,Bob Foster,Monzon,Hagler,Duran,Pryor,Ali ,Foreman, to name a few.

 

Roberto Duran would probably be the P4P #1 with ease if he was boxing today in his prime. He'd probably unify at 140.

 

I reckon at least mate.

There is quite simply no fighter right now from 135-160 that Duran at his best couldnt beat.

Especially now Bernard has left the building at middleweight so to speak.