Bennie had monzon and hagler on the back foot, Arthur has taken out alot of strong fighters, Who is it?
Hard to tell, but given that Abraham weighs over 175lbs on fight night because of the modern before-day weighins, i'd go him the edge. Briscoe was still making the middleweight limit when he was nearly 40 years of age.
Perfect response. You've addressed an oft-forgotten key factor that separates today from yesteryear. :good
Monzon himself was a boiled down LHW, and there are claims that he was cheating the scales at times. Looking at him in the ring he certainly didn't always look to be a MW. Considering Briscoe was backing up one of the strongest MW's of all time in Monzon I'd obviously give him a great chance to back Abraham up.
I'm actually pretty sure that he'd have Abraham on the backfoot. AA is not that aggressive at all - only in spurts. There have been plenty opponent who had him on the backfoot. Doesn't mean they were stronger than him, though. On the weight issue: regardless of the idea that Monzon was a boiled down LHW, he still had to make weight an hour before the fight, which doesn't allow severe dehydration tactics that enable Abraham to be a full fledged LHW while fighting as a middleweight.
