Lol admittedly DG is not in the upper tier of best 3 year runs but there was a time when he did well, although I think the poster is pretty new to the sport.
Barrera was fire from 2000 to 2003, got wrecked by Pacquiao, and still continued to be fire all the way up until around 2006.
Hell of a run and resume
I know, if I'm gettin my timing right (cba to check boxrec just now) he went on to beat Morales 1 more time and had those pretty underrated Juarez bouts. I feel losing to JMM and Pac back to back was it for him.
Didn't say he's comparable to the rest I was listing impressive runs that I can recall.
While I'm at it I can also mention some more:
Andre Ward beat Miranda, Kessler, Bika, Froch and Dawson from 2009 till 2012
James Toney beat Mike McCallum, Michael Nunn and Iran Barkley from 91 till 93
Michael Nunn beat Tate, Kalambay, Starling and Curry from 88 till 93
Most of the intensive short period runs against top elite opponents took place in the modern era of boxing, exceptions are of course SRR and Henry Armstrong who was a champ in 3 weight divisions at the same time at the time where boxing only had 8, so that guy almost owned half the weight divisions. Back in the day fighters would take 5-10 tune ups between fights untill there was a rematch or something and that's why it'd hard to find such intensive runs with fighters pre 1960.
Didn't say he's comparable to the rest I was listing impressive runs that I can recall.
While I'm at it I can also mention some more:
Andre Ward beat Miranda, Kessler, Bika, Froch and Dawson from 2009 till 2012
James Toney beat Mike McCallum, Michael Nunn and Iran Barkley from 91 till 93
Michael Nunn beat Tate, Kalambay, Starling and Curry from 88 till 93
Most of the intensive short period runs against top elite opponents took place in the modern era of boxing, exceptions are of course SRR and Henry Armstrong who was a champ in 3 weight divisions at the same time at the time where boxing only had 8, so that guy almost owned half the weight divisions. Back in the day fighters would take 5-10 tune ups between fights untill there was a rematch or something and that's why it'd hard to find such intensive runs with fighters pre 1960.
It really isn't. Nunns run isnt exactly intensive btw but its solid quality.
Thing is, a run of 3 or 4 fights isn't as jaw dropping and seeing guys have around 10 or more fights in what is a short period of time and consistently facing top guys.
Archie Moore probably had 2 or 3, 3 year periods of excellent fights, ranging from the 40s to the early 50s. One of his best and most iconic runs probably came from 54-57, which included 2 shots at the heavyweight title and a string of victories against some of the top fighters of the day, including Maxim, Olson and Johnson.
Similarly we could talk about Moore's great adversary, Charles, who had an astounding run from 49-52, winning and defending a version of the heavyweight title and with victories over 4 HOFers.
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