The Ring Magazine: Ten fighters that would pwn Money Maiiii

[-Kev-]

Tommy Hearns is a stupid example. Welter is the highest weight Floyd can fight at, Tommy was a Light Heavy for a while.
In fact, all of the fighters on that list aside from Pernell are naturally much larger fighters than Floyd. Lets see that list of Junior Lightweights, Lightweights and Junior Welters that are his size.

Only fighters who are brought as "fighters who can beat Floyd" are much bigger than him. Notice how people want him to fight Williams and Martinez, they are Middleweights, taller and bigger than Floyd.

[BattlingNelson]

To be fair here, he was smart but as soon as he fought some one who wasn't going toe to toe with him, he quit.

But I agree there's no shame in losing to a prime Hearns and prime Leonard. He also beat Leonard when Leonard went toe to toe with him so Duran is very good at his game.

Emmm.... did Benitez go toe to toe with Duran and did Duran quit?

[BattlingNelson]

Only fighters who are brought as "fighters who can beat Floyd" are much bigger than him. Notice how people want him to fight Williams and Martinez, they are Middleweights, taller and bigger than Floyd.

Sandy Saddler was a featherweight...... And he most likely would KO Floyd.

[BennyST]

To be fair here, he was smart but as soon as he fought some one who wasn't going toe to toe with him, he quit.

But I agree there's no shame in losing to a prime Hearns and prime Leonard. He also beat Leonard when Leonard went toe to toe with him so Duran is very good at his game.

You mean like when he quit against the pure boxers Buchanan, Bizarro, Viruet, Fernandez, Benitez, Sims, Kobayashi, Lampkin, Laing, Mamby, Marcel and about a million others.

You should probably do something like watching more than one fight before saying something so absurdly general. Duran fought so many boxers that moved as much, and often more, than Leonard did that whenever you see an answer like that above, you immediately know whoever wrote it has no ****ing clue what they are talking about.

It was quite rare that he fought someone that went toe to toe with him. The overwhelming style he fought was actually that of boxers and boxer/punchers.

I love it when people talk about Duran from his second fight with Leonard onward, as if he didn't have an entire career before that fight as long as most fighters entire careers last. Maybe they forget that that fight was in 1980 and Duran started his pro career in the 60's and had already moved up through seven divisions by the time he fought Leonard and fought champions of all caliber from great HOFers to great contenders of the time, many of which funnily enough, happened to be very quick, slick boxers.

You do know that Leonard didn't create that fight as a blueprint. It was done long before he tried it. The guy that tried it though had the ****e beaten out of him as did all the others who tried. That's why Leonard went in to the first fight with his normal game plan to move only a little bit but try to back him up and go to his body.

Anyway, like I said, before saying stupid ****.....go learn something and actually watch more than one fight. It would be like some moron basing Floyd's career off only the Baldomir fight; saying something stupid like "Floyd's never thrown a single combination in his career. He does nothing but pot shot and run. Any good fighter could beat him"

[STRUGG]

Only fighters who are brought as "fighters who can beat Floyd" are much bigger than him. Notice how people want him to fight Williams and Martinez, they are Middleweights, taller and bigger than Floyd.

cause that swhat seprates the men/duran............from the mayweather/boys/*******

[MiguelDirrell25]

These are the fighters that beats floyd presumably each fight taking place between 140-147
Srl , Hearns, Pryor, Robinson , Sweet P

[BennyST]

Tommy Hearns is a stupid example. Welter is the highest weight Floyd can fight at, Tommy was a Light Heavy for a while.
In fact, all of the fighters on that list aside from Pernell are naturally much larger fighters than Floyd. Lets see that list of Junior Lightweights, Lightweights and Junior Welters that are his size.

Riiiiiiight....It took Floyd all of four brief years to move from 130 to 135, 2 years before moving to 140 and since then he has become a fully fledged WW all over the course of a bit more than ten years all up as a pro.

Roberto Duran was smaller than Floyd and started much, much lower as a pro and stayed at the lower divisions for longer and this in the days before pre-fight weigh ins. They weighed in at the weight they fought, which means today many of these guys would have started a number of divisions lower again and been able to stay there longer.

Henry Armstrong was smaller than Floyd and also started two divisions lower than Floyd and also stayed there much longer.

Whitaker, as you mentioned was smaller.

Arguello, although taller fought at the lower weights for longer as a FW and 130 pounder.

Sandy Saddler was tall but also a career FW.

Pryor was two inches shorter than Floyd and didn't move up to JWW until about two fights before his title shot.

That leaves Robinson, Hearns, Leonard and Oscar (who also happened to have done the exact same route in divisions as Floyd, from 130 up, albeit with a semi-foray into the MW division). Also like Floyd, he has stayed up around 147 and 154. Floyd, at 5'8" is not small as so many like to stupidly point out.

So, apart from those last four (even though Oscar is arguable), the rest were all smaller or exactly the same size as Floyd. Kind of kills your theory.

[Anti~Jalandoni]

I hate when people are comparing old era boxers with the new ones.....

[IAMBIAZED]

Ring magazine are bunch of pacroids