Most impressive title run

[BIG H]

Not to compare Hopkins with the almighty Duran or anything, but I don't think that Hopkins' quality of opposition at middleweight was any worse than Duran's at lightweight.

When I wrote Duran, I knew somebody would make that comparison and you have a point

The thing is with both Hopkins and Duran I am convinced that even if they had''ve faced tougher opposition the result would've been the same as they are both awesome.

Then what was your point? I know how you feel about Duran, but did you mean what you said about Hopkins level of opposition or not?

Yes!!!

Read the second part of that post Brain of the outfit

Both had questionable opposition, so if you are talking about quality of opponents on paper and using that as your only criteria then you could day the reigns aren't that impressive - but what I said was I believe those 2 guys would still have reigned for as long regardless of the opposition.

I don't judge Hopkins or Duran or what I see on Box Rec I judge them on what I have seen with my own eyes, but that's a different question to who has the most impressive opposition in their reign

[CGM]

When I wrote Duran, I knew somebody would make that comparison and you have a point

The thing is with both Hopkins and Duran I am convinced that even if they had''ve faced tougher opposition the result would've been the same as they are both awesome.

Then what was your point? I know how you feel about Duran, but did you mean what you said about Hopkins level of opposition or not?

Yes!!!

Read the second part of that post Brain of the outfit

Both had questionable opposition, so if you are talking about quality of opponents on paper and using that as your only criteria then you could day the reigns aren't that impressive - but what I said was I believe those 2 guys would still have reigned for as long regardless of the opposition.

I don't judge Hopkins or Duran or what I see on Box Rec I judge them on what I have seen with my own eyes, but that's a different question to who has the most impressive opposition in their reign

And I knew when I mentioned Duran that you would make that comparison.

[BIG H]

Then what was your point? I know how you feel about Duran, but did you mean what you said about Hopkins level of opposition or not?

Yes!!!

Read the second part of that post Brain of the outfit

Both had questionable opposition, so if you are talking about quality of opponents on paper and using that as your only criteria then you could day the reigns aren't that impressive - but what I said was I believe those 2 guys would still have reigned for as long regardless of the opposition.

I don't judge Hopkins or Duran or what I see on Box Rec I judge them on what I have seen with my own eyes, but that's a different question to who has the most impressive opposition in their reign

And I knew when I mentioned Duran that you would make that comparison.

Have you actually got a point then?

[CGM]

Yes!!!

Read the second part of that post Brain of the outfit

Both had questionable opposition, so if you are talking about quality of opponents on paper and using that as your only criteria then you could day the reigns aren't that impressive - but what I said was I believe those 2 guys would still have reigned for as long regardless of the opposition.

I don't judge Hopkins or Duran or what I see on Box Rec I judge them on what I have seen with my own eyes, but that's a different question to who has the most impressive opposition in their reign

And I knew when I mentioned Duran that you would make that comparison.

Have you actually got a point then?

Yeah, I thought i spelled it out in my first post. To me your post implied an unfavorable comparison between Duran and Hopkins based on quality of opposition at middleweight vs lightweight. And I made counterpoint to that. And since I disagreed with you on something about Duran, I'm not at all surprised the debate turned into something about being a discerning boxing fan vs. being a "boxrec drone", cause it ain't the first time I've seen that comparison under similar circumstances.

[jon09]

Big and small

Larry Holmes Heavyweight 20 title defenses

Pongsaklek Wonjongkam Flyweight 17 title defenses

Ratanapol Sol Voraphin Strawweight 18 defenses

[holmcall]

"The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world over 11 years, from 1937 to 1949. He defended the world heavyweight crown for over 26 highly impressive times with 22 wins coming by way of KO.

[holmcall]

"The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world over 11 years, from 1937 to 1949. He defended the world heavyweight crown for over 26 highly impressive times with 22 wins coming by way of KO.

[BIG H]

And I knew when I mentioned Duran that you would make that comparison.

Have you actually got a point then?

Yeah, I thought i spelled it out in my first post. To me your post implied an unfavorable comparison between Duran and Hopkins based on quality of opposition at middleweight vs lightweight.

And I said that you had a good point! But you have to keep gabbing on and putting your rolling eyes and confused smilies up when I was actually acknowledging what you said!

[holmcall]

"The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world over 11 years, from 1937 to 1949 ! And defended the world heavyweight crown 26 times

[Mr140]

Think Larry Holmes had one heck of a run and would of broke a record if he did not get cheated in his fight with Spinks still a good run though.

[ICB]

"The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world over 11 years, from 1937 to 1949 ! And defended the world heavyweight crown 26 times

I thought it was 25 times ? and to be honest, he didn't deserve to defend it 25 times. Jersey Joe Walcott was clearly cheated out of a decision in the 1st meeting. No disrespect to Joe Louis he is an ATG, but he for certain lost that fight.