Mab is another legend and first ballot hall of famer whose legacy has been lost in translation. Another great fighter who had his best days at 122 and 126 with some success at 130. I mean he had already fought 60 fights before he met Manny. Most people would agree that when you fight like Mab you normally do not have a long shelf life but he had an exceptional one. That downright licking he handed
Hamed was priceless.
Marquez. Quietly went about his business dominating feather long before Mab or Morales ever arrived and then more or less shared the division when they did despite getting an early start on how to get fucked over in his pro debut because of Jose’s ridiculous head butt rule. After his unfortunate debut he put together a nice run and then got bent over again against Norwood. He battled on and won about 15 straight leading up to Manny. One needs to look no further than the cards to see the diversity in scoring that fight. Still he kept on. Not to be outdone by stupid rules or hacked cards and disputed decisions, his own managing team decides to got fight John in a parking lot in Indonesia for a hundred grand. Yeah that will show them. I wonder if they kissed him first. He has done more late in his career them Erik or Mab. To me the three Mexican warriors are interchangeable as a group on any list.

Manny. What he has done is unprecedented. Nobody in the history has done what Manny has done in the matter in which he has done it. I mean Armstrong did it but not from 106 pounds. Manny did not just beat bigger men, he destroyed them. Having said that unfortunately there will be some asterisks beside his name starting with catch weights and the entire fiasco with Floyd which rightly or wrongly will in some manner taint a portion of his career. In addition some will question how he was able to move up so much and destroy the field. For better or for worse that’s what boxing historians do.


Hamed. Woulda, coulda, shoulda but didn’t. First time he faces an elite fighter and he folds like a cheap lawn chair and then quits. A footnote or ink blot in history. He’s number one in overdone ring entrances but as far as historical legacy goes he does not even belong in the same sentence as the other 4. Sure he had power and a rubber band style but he was a classic underachiever who collapsed after a bit of adversity.