Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
Just because Marvin was favourite in his fights does not mean they were not impressive wins. He cleared his old challengers and started taking on the new and therefore untested contenders.

Marvin's record stands to good scrutiny and impressive by most standards.
wins v challenges. you are talking wins (he lost to ray) i am talking challenges. you said yourself he avoided herol graham & i think michael spinks would have been a bigger challenge than anyone marvin fought from roberto duran onwards. as i've also pointed out mike mccallum would have also been seen as a challenge heading into eighty seven over an almost three year inactive smaller guy

marvin is a legend & his record holds a lot of good work but the more i look at the ray leonard fight the worse it looks. even back then the public must have been questioning how legitimate of a challenge it was. if a dominant champion today decided to defend against a smaller fighter coming of an almost three year layoff, he'd be crucified