watching their fights hit back by nostalgia
Damn the intensity and savageness of their fights is amazing its like watching a well rehearsed action movie.
Barrera and morales and their animosity towards each other pac and jmm fighting fire with fire.
What current boxers today could replicate/compare or even surpass this fights/rivalries
My guess is golovkin or canelo if they ever fought but i could be wrong tho.
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Never say never but I doubt it. The rivalries you mentioned produced such great fights at such a high skill level that we'll be really lucky to see anything like that again.
Another great rivalry was Rafael Marquez and Israel Vazqez, which produced some epic wars.
Maybe the next great rivalry will involve Russian or Eastern European fighters. We could get lucky :)
We could have a few rivalries but not many at elite level. I could see someone cashing in a Rios/ Provodnikov trilogy. Also could see Provodnikov- Matthysse 2 or Matthysse -Rios. All would be good. You could also have Andrade, charlo brothers, Julian Williams, and Lara fighting over and over. Skilled guys, but no one really Knows them.
Yeah, unfortunately today all the close fights between well known fighters are boring or just don't live up to expectations. Even Mattysee vs Ruslan lacked something in terms of excitement but that could be because I went into the fight with such high expectations
LSC vs Mares was another fight that just wasn't as good in the ring as it looked on paper, atleast for me.
Possible. We have the Ruiz vs Ceja fight coming up which if Ruiz wins, will lead to a trilogy.
Frampton vs Quigg has rivalry written all over it.
We could have a few rivalries but not many at elite level. I could see someone cashing in a Rios/ Provodnikov trilogy. Also could see Provodnikov- Matthysse 2 or Matthysse -Rios. All would be good. You could also have Andrade, charlo brothers, Julian Williams, and Lara fighting over and over. Skilled guys, but no one really Knows them.
Yes, Inoue vs Gonzales could be a classic rivarly starting from 2017.
Hopefully Inoue can get some fights on HBO this year to build it up for when Gonzales moves up.
i think gonzalez-estrada may be our best bet right now
Yep at that high level, it could be the only one....and Chocolatito is predictably pricing himself out of it.....sigh...
None, this era of boxing sucks......you have 50 year old popkins who could still school anyone but Kovalev at 175 ffs.....that's how bad the new generation is.
Imagine the greats of the 90's-00's against the current crop....other than a few weights, the new ones would get destroyed
Flyweights
Finito-Chocolatito,Estrada(close to call)
Bantamweights
Too Sharp Johnson or Rafel Marquez - Inoue or Yamanaka(Inoue has a shot, Yamanaka gets taken to school)
Super Bantams
Barrera or Morales or Vazquez or Pacquiao - Frampton or Quigg or Rigo (Only Rigo has a shot, others get destroyed)
Feathers
Barrera, Morales, Marquez, Pacquiao, Prince Naz -Santa Cruz, Selby, Lomachenko(only Lomachenko belongs in the same ring and he lost to Salido)
130
Barrera, Morales,Marquez, Pac, Corrales, Mayweather - Uchiyama,Walters,Vargas,Fortuna(LOL)
135
Mosley, Marquez, Pac, Mayweather,Castillo, Corrales- Linares,Rances, Flanagan(ROFL)
140
Mayweather, Tszyu, Pac, Hatton- Crawford,Postol, Matthysse(May and Pac clearly miles above)
147
DLH, Mosley, Trinidad, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Quartey-Bradley, Thurman, Porter, Brook(LOL)
154
DLH,Trinidad,Winky,Vargas-Canelo,Lara, Charlos, Andrade(LOL)
160
Trinidad,Hopkins,Winky-GGG, Canelo
168
Jones Jr, Slappy, Benn, Eubank-Abraham, Degale
175
Jones Jr, Hopkins, Tarver-Kovalev, Ward
200
always crap but I'll take a 2003 Toney over anyone right now
200+
Lennox, Vitali - Wlad, Fury
The only guys who one would think could have a shot are all untested as fu;ck(Crawford, Loma, GGG,Inoue).....I see about 4 guys who I know can compete in those eras, Chocolatito, Ward, Rigo and Kovalev.
watching their fights hit back by nostalgia
Damn the intensity and savageness of their fights is amazing its like watching a well rehearsed action movie.
Barrera and morales and their animosity towards each other pac and jmm fighting fire with fire.
What current boxers today could replicate/compare or even surpass this fights/rivalries
My guess is golovkin or canelo if they ever fought but i could be wrong tho.
I doubt no matter what the outcome of GGG vs Canelo is, there wont be a rematch much less a trilogy. Also I seriously doubt we see any trilogies above 130lbs, to much money above 130 to be made fighting other people besides the same guy unless you consider pac vs bradley on the same level as the fights you mentioned. But in order for a great trilogy to happen 1 thing definitely needs to happen, Mexico needs to produce a star under 130 and then there needs to be a Mexicutioner in or around that stars weight class. Thatll produce at least a rematch regardless the outcome. Or Mexico needs to produce 2 stars under 130 in or around the same weight class and market it as there can only be 1.
Nah, everyone is to scared of taking an L or giving close fights rematches. Salido and martinez was on its way to that but siri got robbed and rocky dont want it again
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