Okay so we've already established (I should but never ever read articles from these less-than-credible websites) that Duran was really referring to Mayweather's opposition or this Era as a whole, so beyond that, I guess I can only remark that the WW and LMW of the 80's were better than those of more recent times.

Which I think is fair.

The lightweights of the 70's against the lightweights of the late 90's/ early 00's, I'll be honest, I really ain't too sure??