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... and what you believe his best weight was. For instance:

Manny Pacquiao - I think that dude was a beast at super featherweight. He's still very, very, very good at the other weights, mind you - as evidenced by his belts and his destructions of those champions in those divisions... but at super featherweight he was a monster.

Sugar Shane Mosley - lightweight - dude was considered to be unbeatable at the time at that weight and some had him the #1 pound for pound fighter.

Pernell Whitaker - lightweight - you would be hard pressed to find a fighter who didn't have a lot of power who lost LESS rounds during a title reign than Sweet Pea did during his lightweight tenure. The guy was untouchable when he was in his zone.

What do you guys think? What about Floyd Mayweather? Oscar De La Hoya? Roy Jones, Jr.? Sugar Ray Leonard? Tommy Hearns?
Gotta go 147 for Floyd. He had more flash when he was lighter and threw more but he's a much better fighter all around at 147 even though he's been the smaller guy pretty much every time out.

135 or 140 for Oscar.

Roy for sure at 168. Real shame he did not stay longer. Cant think of anyone who would beat him save Ezzard Charles.

Leonard 147

Hearns 147 but @Britkid could certainly make the case for 154
I am a bit surprised by 2 of these. I thought you would go with a blazing fast Mayweather at 130. Also thought you would go with the 147 version of Oscar who beat Trinidad, no matter what people say. I can see the lighter weight for Oscar, though - he was ruthless early on and took on some good names.

I really agree with you that Roy looked spectacular at 168 and he really didn't weigh or need to weight 175 when he began campaigning at light heavyweight - there were some good fights to be made at 168, to include a rematch with Hopkins at the time (I don't think that any of us knew at the time what Hopkins would become), quite a few people across the pond, and a few bangers stateside. I heard that there were talks of a Calzaghe/RJJ fight before Joe Cal really got respect in America (before Lacy), and the fight didn't happen - in retrospect, that would have been interesting.