Originally posted by Mr. Fantastic
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However, you must realized that at Burley time there was only one title. It is quite hard to win a title when there is only one. Hell if there was only one now Marg would never had won a title.
Also champs refused to give Burley a shot for the title, one reason was cuz of his race the other was cuz he was too good and not a big enough draw. Sounds familiar? Rumors even had it that Sugar Ray Robinson ducked Burley. Robinson was at ringside for one of Burley fights and said something to the effect of Burley just being to good that he won't fight him or something like that don't know the exact quote.
Burley said that if he was in Robinson shoes he wouldn't had fought him either. Since it was a high risk/low reward type of fight. But, famous trainers like Eddie Futch and others have said Burley is the best boxer they have ever seen including SRR.
Honestly, those were different circumstances that doesn't make it a fair comparison or analogy. Maybe your point would of been valid if Burley had once giving an opportuniy to fight for a World title. But, since he was too damn good and worse he was black that opportunity shamefully never came. But, yes he is an ATG.
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