Originally posted by soul_survivor
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To your question isn't it slightly unfair to compare the number of very good to great fighters in an 18 year period with all the fighters that went before? Anyway let me try, i'm not saying my examples from 1995 to 2013 would necessarily beat more times than not the best in their respective weight classes from all the years before 1995 but I think my examples would be very competitive indeed. Off the top of my head then Lewis, V Klitschko, W Klitschko, Roy Jones, Michalczewski, Hopkins, Calzaghe, Ward, Collins,
Trinidad, Martinez, Golovkin (still to be proven), Mayweather, Wright, Pacquiao, Cotto, Kostya Tszyu, Castillo, Barrera, Morales, Marquez, Naseem Hamed, Donaire, Rigondeaux(still to be fully proven), Calderon, Ricardo Lopez, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Roman Gonzalez (This guy is surely going to be considered a great) plus a number of others particularly in the flyweight classes who might well compare favourably with earlier champions although I haven't really went through it thoroughly to make an assessment of it.
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