Canelo vs Lemeuix who wins?

[John Locke]

This wouldn't be a competitive fight, Canelo would dominate that boy

[mathed]

This is a good scrap, difficult to call.

If Lemieux was landing the shots that Khan was landing, the diva would have been outta there by round 3.

[icha]

If Lemieux was landing the shots that Khan was landing, the diva would have been outta there by round 3.

Lemule has nowhere near the speed khan has, thats the same reason he couldnt land on ggg...
Good try...

[Cutthroat]

Hopkins great fighter but he couldn't beat Taylor (close fights, could have gone either way), Taylor good middleweight stepped up to SMW and started losing badly to pretty much everyone in the top 10, Pavlik's claim to fame was his wins over Taylor but at the end of the day he was a 1 trick pony, Abraham was much better back then but also had hard time vs. top 10 SMW... Miranda? Miranda lost every time he stepped up.

Now i agree that the line up above is stronger then current line up of middleweights... you take out Hopkins who's name will be remembered for years to come and you don't have a whole lot left... just like you do with current division.

Anyways i think we can go about this all day. My point is that the division is decent, there is 1/2 potential ATG (Canelo and GGG) and then there are the rest... no different then any/most other eras.

Taylor-Pavlik-Miranda-Abraham, all these fighters were fighting each other around the same time and taking a lot out of each other in some vicious fights.

You have to remember just how stacked 168 was at that time, I also forgot about Jean Pascal going from 160-168. Taylor and co entered a division with the likes of Bute, Froch, Ward, Kessler, Dirrell, Pascal, all prime versions of them. These days you have the champions struggling to beat a faded version of Bute, drawing with him lol.

[Cutthroat]

You can do this sorta critical breakdown of any division in the sport if you choose. Find some way of objectively proving that MW fighters are worse P4P than their counterparts in the surrounding divisions and you've got an argument. Just because you ain't seen 'em on the big stage so often don't mean they're significantly worse.

There is an argument to be made that much of the US based talent around the weight opted for 154 as long as there was the hope of the Floyd / Pac sweepstakes, but you have to wonder why the top 154 guys (most of whom come to the ring the same weight as MWs ) aren't leaping in to take over 160.

The current champions of 168 struggling with a faded version of Bute says it all, it too is a faded division yet still above 160. Over are the days of prime Froch, Ward, Kessler, Bute, Pascal, Dirrell, etc. that's when it was staaacked, imagine what they'd do to Martin Murray, arguably ggg's career win when he can't even beat a really faded Abraham at 168.

The lower the weight class, the more money, guys wouldn't want to move up.