Quote Originally Posted by johnsebastianmiran View Post
I don't think that I could venture a proper guess but as far as I can see all the participants fought the best people around at the time and most of them fought their opponent in his prime. If I may say so the guys that fought the champs in your list were the cream of the crop. Guess I blew my bolt but I will keep trying to guess the answer.
Brilliant answer really because it cant be wrong since its true even though its not the 100% commonality I was looking for.