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There are quite a lot of fighters who have faced amazing competition. The difference with Oscar is that most people saw him fight and he was popular so people remember and know him.
Someone like Pat Lawlor, yeah I know right...who? Pat Lawlor has faced Roberto Duran, Wilfred Benitez, John David Jackson, Hector Camacho, Terry Norris, Rene Arredondo, Vinny Pazienza, Joe Calzaghe, Librado Andrade, Juergen Braehmer...All of them multiple champions except for Andrade.
There are guys like this all throughout the history of boxing.
Tommy Hearns also is rather beastly; Duran, Leonard, Hagler, Barkley, Hill, Benitez, Cuevas, plus a million other great champions and fighters.
Duran probably has the best competition ever along with someone like Harry Greb, Langford, Robinson etc and this for a guy who started fighting at bantamweight and was best at lightweight! Leonard (top 3 WW ATG), Hagler (top 3 MW ATG), Hearns (top 3 JMW ATG), Benitez (youngest champ ever), Palomino (HOF WW), Buchanan (HOF LW), Cuevas (HOF WW) and on and on... Barkley, Ernesto Marcel, De Jesus, Camacho, Pazienza, Kobayashi, Moore, Jorge Castro, William Joppy, Ishimatsu...plus many other champions and top ranked fighters. Nearly every one of these guys are in the HOF, or on the ballot and are long time, multiple division champions.
****! Think about this; Ernesto Marcel was a HOF 126 pound champ, who beat HOFers like Arguello, Serrano etc and Duran beat him in the late 60's from memory and then you have a guy like Jorge Castro, who was a huge MW champ, that fought up to 200 pounds for titles, and that beat great champions like John David Jackson, Reggie Johnson, among many, many others etc and Duran beat him in the late nineties at 168! Just think about that for a minute.
Someone like Pat Lawlor, yeah I know right...who? Pat Lawlor has faced Roberto Duran, Wilfred Benitez, John David Jackson, Hector Camacho, Terry Norris, Rene Arredondo, Vinny Pazienza, Joe Calzaghe, Librado Andrade, Juergen Braehmer...All of them multiple champions except for Andrade.
There are guys like this all throughout the history of boxing.
Tommy Hearns also is rather beastly; Duran, Leonard, Hagler, Barkley, Hill, Benitez, Cuevas, plus a million other great champions and fighters.
Duran probably has the best competition ever along with someone like Harry Greb, Langford, Robinson etc and this for a guy who started fighting at bantamweight and was best at lightweight! Leonard (top 3 WW ATG), Hagler (top 3 MW ATG), Hearns (top 3 JMW ATG), Benitez (youngest champ ever), Palomino (HOF WW), Buchanan (HOF LW), Cuevas (HOF WW) and on and on... Barkley, Ernesto Marcel, De Jesus, Camacho, Pazienza, Kobayashi, Moore, Jorge Castro, William Joppy, Ishimatsu...plus many other champions and top ranked fighters. Nearly every one of these guys are in the HOF, or on the ballot and are long time, multiple division champions.
****! Think about this; Ernesto Marcel was a HOF 126 pound champ, who beat HOFers like Arguello, Serrano etc and Duran beat him in the late 60's from memory and then you have a guy like Jorge Castro, who was a huge MW champ, that fought up to 200 pounds for titles, and that beat great champions like John David Jackson, Reggie Johnson, among many, many others etc and Duran beat him in the late nineties at 168! Just think about that for a minute.
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