Fun fact about boxing in 1999

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  • ModernTalking
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    #11
    Originally posted by jose.sooto
    Funny how time changes everything. Floyd Mayweather Jr was on before the manny pacquiao hype and he is still on after the hype. It's called consitency
    It is called consistency

    Just like Floyd countless duck of Manny Pacquiao.

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      • rayb112
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        #12
        Floyd beat 9 of those top 10 fighters from different divisions thru out his career...

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          • blacraven
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            #13
            I just love how this thread is avoided because Floyd was #2 P4P in 19freaking99.
            Remained the top 1-2 since before that and is still #1 today.
            If say.... "Another guy" had accomplished this in the same dominating fashion then this site would shut down due to post overload.

            And yet, people will go and blow up other threads about said fighter being a bum/ducker/over rated/etc...
            ......makes sense.

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              • RubenSonny
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                #14
                Originally posted by LacedUp
                There was not a single division in boxing who had a recognized champion by the end of 1999.

                http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th..._Ratings:_1999
                The ring didn't give titles at that time. Same thing for most of the 90s I think they brought it back in 2002.
                Last edited by RubenSonny; 05-15-2014, 11:56 PM.

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                  • damit305
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                    #15
                    Originally posted by LarryXXX
                    Looking at the p4p top 10 in 1999, it is amazing Hopkins and Mayweather are unified champs here in 2014...Floyd was p4p#2 in 1999...damn
                    Hopkins I understand.

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                      • Sugar Adam Ali
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                        #16
                        Originally posted by RubenSonny
                        The ring didn't give titles at that time. Same thing for most of the 90s I think they brought it back in 2002.
                        I'm pretty sure your right about that, or in 2002 they were upset with constantly having vacant titles they changed the rules on what determines a ring champ..


                        Side note- hard to fathom Lennox not being recognized as THE world champ when he beat McCall 2, Holyfield and Briggs by that time to gather all the major titles...

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                          • 2Shotz
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                            #17
                            I remember some good fights back in '99 -Oscar/Quartey, Oscar/Carr, Trinidad/Whittaker, Oscar/Trinidad, Lennox/Holy I, Jones/Johnson, Lewis Holy II...

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                                #18
                                Originally posted by DeadLikeMe
                                Boxing really went to **** somewhere between 2003 and 2006 or so...
                                It was filled with a lot of pretenders. Judah, Hatton, etc.
                                the best were retiring and the next best weren't there yet (Money, PacMan).

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