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​I used to fight at welterweight and I met a young guy last week who is a current amateur welterweight - he was nearly 6 foot tall and looked like a big middleweight to me!

No way are we th same weight division, so these era by era comparisons are flawed at the lighter weights to be honest.
I guess that's something that's glossed over or not added to the equation. It almost becomes a P4P debate. I don't know if they did in ring weights back then but the assumption would have to be that Hagler would be a fair bit smaller than GGG on the night. Picking up on what Spicoli said about past generations just being a bit tougher. I'd go along with that to an extent. Again like the Lewis arguement or any era V era arguement, it's kind of a blanket statement in that everyone was tougher, they were all made of sterner stuff and that gets thrown into the mix. If environment back then is a factor in making a case. So is environment now and sub heavyweight, fighters from the past would be up against far bigger fighters than they would have at the time.