Winky Wright vs. Felix Trinidad- Full fight!

[generalbulldog]

I'm no fan of Trinidad, but he didn't ducked Mosley as someone here said. If memory serves me right, Trinidad went to 154 around 2000 while Mosley had just came up into the 147 division to fight Oscar. And the Whitaker fight was no gift, Pernell was just past his prime and too coked up to put up a fight against Trinidad.

Seems to me that there is a lot of revisionist history here concerning both Hopkins and Trinidad. It's not just those 2 but a lot of the popular fighters as well, where fans like to omit or exaggerate stuff.

[ykdadamaja]

Well, I certainly had Hopkins to win that...

[Violent Demise]

I'm no fan of Trinidad, but he didn't ducked Mosley as someone here said. If memory serves me right, Trinidad went to 154 around 2000 while Mosley had just came up into the 147 division to fight Oscar. And the Whitaker fight was no gift, Pernell was just past his prime and too coked up to put up a fight against Trinidad.

Seems to me that there is a lot of revisionist history here concerning both Hopkins and Trinidad. It's not just those 2 but a lot of the popular fighters as well, where fans like to omit or exaggerate stuff.

Mosley was set to fight Winky Wright when him and Trinidad came to an agreement. Everybody expected Mosley to pull out of the Winky Wright fight. But Mosley being the nice guy/dumb ass that he is didn't want to do that to Winky. So he went ahead with the fight. He lost to Wright. And he lost the Trinidad fight

[TitoFan]

Trinidad's loss to Winky was probably his worst showing as a pro fighter. It is what it is. Every fighter has a "best fight" of his career.... and a "worst fight" of his career. His three career losses were against whom. Hopkins, Wright, RJJ. All future HOFers. And all three naturally bigger fighters. In addition, Wright was widely recognized as having a tremendous defense as one of his better traits. Trinidad's best weights were 147 and 154. What he did at MW was remarkable, especially the unforeseen demolition of William Joppy. Claims of ducking are ridiculous. Par for the course for haters, who will dredge up similar claims for anyone else they hate. It is what it is. Hate if you must... but don't distort facts to make your point.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

I only got round to watching the Trinidad Whittaker and Oscar Chavez fights a year or so ago and despite the older, smaller man loosing in both fights... I realised that The smaller guys, overall were probably much better prime for prime.