Re: Prime Pernell Whitaker in today's era.
Ok Sweet Pea can certainly hang with the best of them, no denying.
But a lot of these example fights you guys are talking about above, they could walk through and overwhelm Whitaker a lot.
I am not suggesting Marquez, Morales or even Pac would have no difficulties finding him, I expect hard fought rounds. But I do expect them to eventually get to him as well.
Let's forget about Floyd vs Pac for a minute, that's a different kettle of fish.
I can see Pac missing a ton of shots against Pea as well, but what I can't see is Pac being seriously hurt by Whitaker and I can't see Pea bending around Pac Man successfully for an entire 12 rounds!
This might surprise you but Pea sometimes did actually get hit you know!!
Clearly he fought some first rate opposition, he definitely deserves his place on a toplist but he was not invincible. A model of a defence fighter though, for sure!
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