Quote Originally Posted by Deanrw
Where is Roberto Duran? At Lightweight, he was simply pure destruction.



Archie Moore? He was simply too hot and cold, got beaten too many times.

Roy Jones Jr.? Not in my book. He did not prove his legacy against other greats.

Willie Pep? Sandy Saddler beat him in 3 of 4 matches.

Duran was a great fighter but to me he was just too much of a brawler to be in this list because as Leonard showed in the second and third fights, if you kept to a boxing text book he was very beatable.

Archie Moore is in there for me because the earliest official weigh in I can find is 145lb which would be welterweight and he was still holding his own at heavyweight against the likes of Marciano just short of his 42nd Birthday. Also i dont believe he ever lost the light heavy title.

Roy Jones Jr beat only a couple of great fighters Toney and Hopkins. Then he has a decent list of good fighters he beat. But the reason ive got him in here is the style in which he beat them all, I mean the man used to win every single round of every single fight. surely that has to give him a shout?

And finally Pep.Yes Saddler beat him 3 of 4 fights but i believe that he was just the man that could beat him like Junior Jones was to Barrera. I think that in defensive boxing there has never been anyone as good as Pep and that is the reason hes in there.