Chronology of 90’s Pound For Pound Race

[TitoFan]

Ring Magazine? Say no more. Slanted and biased as they come.

They’ve lost some credibility in recent years but they were very legitimate in the 90’s in my opinion.

Still... p4p is highly mythical, and the Ring's choice is little more than a popularity contest. You even mentioned the head-scratching worthy choices of DLH for two of those years. He was so flattered he later bought The Ring.

Who would you have put as the pound for pound no. 1 in 1997?

Any of a handful of other fighters. I don't break it down so finely... I tend to look more at decades. Some fighters might fight once or twice in one year... hardly a good sample size.

Ricardo Lopez was infinitely more deserving than DLH for those honors. He only retired undefeated with a sterling 51-0-1 record. But since he was a little guy, with little to no fanfare... and he wasn't TV's darling.... he gets no mention.

Shane Mosley was undefeated through the 90's. He also went on to defeat DLH later on, although that has no bearing on the 90's.

Even Lennox Lewis, who avenged his loss to Oliver McCall in 1997, deserves some love.

Any given year in the 90's, there was always someone to one-up DLH in everything but popularity.