Quote Originally Posted by Realitycheck77
The reason I go for Chavez at Lightweight is because he was a better “boxer” at the lighter weights, he had more agility, speed and his movement was better, but also he was tactically better equipped at the lighter weights, as he moved up he lost the above and only retained his fighting instinct, his movement in slipping a punch to come in to the body was not so well performed at welterweight.

Yes – Pernell would also be better at lightweight, but the difference would be greater for Chavez IMO, they way I see it is the lighter you go the better Chavez gets and the heavier you go the better Pernell gets.
Good points, I certainly see where you're coming from. My argument is just that the style matchup would always favor Whitaker no matter what the weight class. Chavez's style was always based on accumulation of punishment, wearing down his opponent by working the body round after round. But this style, which is based on constantly putting leather on your opponent, is very tough to use against an opponent like Whitaker who is almost impossible to hit. In Whitaker's prime, the only way you could possibly beat him was to land a big shot and knock him out. This never happened of course. You just couldn't beat him by outscoring him or slowly wearing him down, because he was always landing twice or three times as much as his opponent.
Defense wins in every sport, including boxing, and in his prime Whitaker was by far the best defender in the game, and he could do it while throwing tons of punches himself.

Quote Originally Posted by JT Rock
I always remembered back in those days Chavez was a Golden child of sorts, who was gonna be at the top regardless of what happened in the ring... Now let me preface this by saying CHAVEZ IS AN ALL TIME GREAT AND DESERVES HIS ACCOLADES but I have argued Meldrick Taylor got screwed to the end of the earth with many around here, couple that with the Screwing Whitaker got just makes me believe in the 1st sentence I wrote...
Funny you bring up Taylor. Just yesterday, I was watching the Legendary Nights episode of Taylor-Chavez on HBO, and I'd completely forgotten that Taylor, like Pernell, was also managed by Dan Duva. Duva almost attacked Richard Steele in the ring after he stopped the Taylor fight, so he must have gone even more nuts when Pernell got robbed. My dvd of Whitaker-Chavez ends right after the decision is announced. Did Duva go crazy after the draw was announced?