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  • The battle of the greats! Who wins?

    All fight 15 Rounds, standard weight limit and prime for prime.
    All modernish fighters some film available.


    Heavyweight - Joe Louis vs Muhammad Ali
    Light Heavyweight - Archie Moore vs Ezzard Charles (Yes I know...)
    Middleweight - Marvin Hagler vs Carlos Monzon
    Welterweight - Sugar Ray Robinson vs Sugar Ray Leonard
    Lightweight - Duran vs Whittaker
    Bantamweight - Eder Jofre vs Carlos Zarate
    Featherweight - Willie Pep vs Henry Armstrong (Not sure about film)
    Flyweight - Jimmy Wilde vs Ricardo Lopez

    Joe Louis
    Ezzard Charles
    Marvin Hagler
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Duran
    Jofre
    Pep
    Jimmy Wilde

    Your Thoughts?
    Last edited by Barn; 09-17-2010, 11:17 AM.

  • #2
    Originally posted by "Marvelous" View Post
    All fight 15 Rounds, standard weight limit and prime for prime.
    All modernish fighters some film available.


    Heavyweight - Joe Louis vs Muhammad Ali
    Light Heavyweight - Archie Moore vs Ezzard Charles (Yes I know...)
    Middleweight - Marvin Hagler vs Carlos Monzon
    Welterweight - Sugar Ray Robinson vs Sugar Ray Leonard
    Lightweight - Duran vs Whittaker
    Bantamweight - Eder Jofre vs Carlos Zarate
    Featherweight - Willie Pep vs Henry Armstrong (Not sure about film)
    Heavyweight: Ali takes it by decision. Would be the toughest fight Ali ever had but in the end he'd be able to keep the fight as an outside fight and out-land Louis. I could see Louis scoring a knockdown in this one, but prime Ali was freakishly fast and was a master of range and using the ring.

    Light-heavy: Moore by middle round KO. The Moore who fought Charles was a far cry from the earliest footage available of him, which still wasn't his true prime imo. I think eventually Moore would have landed the kill-shot that he couldn't land against Charles when they fought.

    Middleweight: Would have been an all-time classic. I can't see either man getting knocked out; if I had to bet, I'd take Hagler by a razor-close decision. This fight would have a little of everything in it.

    Welterweight: Robinson by fairly wide-margined decision. Robinson could do it all; both men were extremely adaptable, hit incredibly hard... I think Robinson's hand speed makes the difference in this one.

    Lightweight: Duran by decision. I think Whitaker P4P was an overall better fighter than Duran... but even though Whitaker handled a somewhat comparably-styled fighter in Chavez, Duran in his prime had a motor that never stopped. Too much pressure for Whitaker to adequately keep at bay.

    Featherweight: Armstrong by decision. Both of these men's best fights were not captured on video; I think this is simply a terrible matchup for Pep. I see this one playing out similarly to Whitaker-Duran above.

    Bantamweight: Jofre by close decision, but Zarate could end any fight in a flash. Jofre had a good chin, though, and I think he simply outworks Zarate to earn a points win.

    Flyweight: You left this one out so I'm going to pit Jimmy Wilde against Ricardo Lopez, with Lopez winning by late stoppage.

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    • #3
      Thanks for the flyweight info I'll add it in!

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