Originally posted by Twako
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Armstrong had 149 wins and 101 KO's and he was considered a KO artist and only went from feather-wt to welter when there weren't any junior divisions. During that time heavy-wt champions were cruiser-wts. Duran wasn't a fast KO artist either and was no where near his best at the higher weights. Oscar was 5'10 1/2 and again started out as a KO artist. Oscar was really a Jr.welter-wt when he started. If you notice Floyd took years to grow into a welter-wt and still would be too small for Leonard and Hearns. Floyd didn't go up in weight steamrolling much bigger opponents like Manny all of a sudden did. Manny was no steamroller until he went up to 140-147. He never get's tired, gets hit by almost everything thrown just has the abililty all of a sudden to take whatever while still outlasting his very well picked opponents. I would've loved to believe Mann7y was clean but all the BS and his unwillingness to submit to random testing makes it very clear to me.
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