Which fighters suffered the most through sharing an era with another fighter?

what about fernando vargas and david reid,

if they dident share the same era with felix trinidad then both could have been great fighters... they certainly had what looked like great talkent.

 

Thomas Hearns had the style and attributes to dominate the welterweight scene for a decade, provided he could keep making weight. I think he could've.

Imagine Hearns-Whitaker in the early 1990s at WW...?

Hearns-Chavez?

 

Yes, as i have posted myself before.

What i mean tho is that if Pryor wasn't there (the premise of the thread) then the best of the bunch (Mamby, Haley or whoever) would have very likely been beaten by Arguello and hence he goes down in history perhaps ever better. Obviously if he chose one of the other two whilst a much better Pryor was still there the achievement would have been tarnished if not reputation harming.

 

Anyone who fought in the eras of Louis, Monzon, Marciano, Duran, Ali (etc) could be considered unfortunate, and may have achieved who-knows-what without them around.

I actually disagree on Foreman. He was indestructable, and new it, until he encountered Ali. After that he had to deal with doubt for the first time in his career. Still managed a handful more good wins and then lost on points to Jimmy Young.

Not really sure why he quit at that point? But he called it a day and then of course came back famously 10 years later.

 

Reid was too green to fight Tito and just got beat.

But Vargas should have beat Tito but the "nut-shots" saved Trindad. Vargas never recovered from that fight and the frustrating loses continued.

 

BIG DEE HERE= Jimmy McLarnin if not for his No1 pain in the ass Barney Ross.
and George Foreman didn`t say that about Jerry Quarry recently he said it when Jerry died on Jan. 3 1999.

 

Liston without Clay on the scene would very likely have ruled for a few years longer.

 

Meldrick Taylor suffered in sharing the same era as Julio Cesar Chavez. It ruined him.

 

Agreed.

 

Come to think of it... Roberto Duran suffered in the shadow of Ali during the 70s and had to share the honors of fighter of the decade if I remember correctly.

 

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Luis Rodriguez being a contempory of Griffith ,Luis was a fine boxer with an excellent resume ,Griffith was just a shade better.

 

Now there's an interesting twist on things. Monzon too would have been noticed that bit more.

 

Eusebio Pedroza with Salvador Sanchez. Lupe Pintor overshadowed by Jeff Chandler. Davey Moore with Roberto Duran.