As we are fresh in one of the best welterwaight eras in recent history in what is one of the best divisions in boxing history with consistantly great fights and excelent and talented boxers there have been some debates of how todays welterweights compare to the 90s and I got an idea rolling around in my head. I have seen some threads talking about different match ups that led to excelent debates. I also loved the tournaments opened up for the current welterweights as well as the greatest heavy weights.

So I intend to make a tournament between 90s wws and 2000s wws. I intend to open up some polls (Not poles LOL) on the different match ups shortly after this thread. First I wanted to decide the matchups and the fighters that will be involved. Perhaps you guys can help me with this. I will probbably just include champions and some major contenders. The contenders will probably be for the 90s wws as the 90 had long reigning champions and the 2000s belts changed hands more freaquently than dollar bills.


90s Welterweights

Simon Brown
Maurice Blocker
Buddy McGirt
Pernel Whitaker
Ike Quartey
Felix Trinidad
Oscar De la Hoya
Jose Luis Lopez
James Page
Oba Carr
Yori Boy Campas

2000s Welterweights

Andrew Lewis
Ricardo Mayorga
Cory Spinks
Zab Judah
Luis Collazo
Ricky Hatton
Miguel Angel Cotto
Shane Mosley
Vernon Forrest
Carlos Baldomir
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Kermit Cintron
Antonio Margarito

I really want to get rid of some of these names and would like to know your opinion. I would like to have 8 representatives from each era.

So who goes and who stays?

CCs for all who help out on this part.