By Miguel Rivera
Former three division world champion Felix "Tito" Trinidad feels the current landscape of the welterweight division is of low comparison when reflecting back on the fighters, and fights, of year's past.
Trinidad captured world titles at welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight but made his name and career at 147-pounds.
He remembers back when the welterweight division staged the best fights in the entire sport. Those times have passed. These days the best fighters at 147 are rarely seen facing each other.
"[The level of fights have] diminished a bit, especially in the welterweight division, where there was always fire. Today, in the welterweight division it's missing the impact of years' past," Trinidad told Alex Figueroa.
"I look back to when I followed [the welterweight division], there was [Sugar Ray] Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, [Wilfredo] Benitez ... After some time, there was myself, [Oscar] De La Hoya, Pernell Whitaker, Ike Quartey. In this time period things have lowered considerably, as to the level of fights."