You say that as if you mean take away my idiot rantings, it's an ok topic but I've said nothing unreasonable at all in this thread, merely asked questions, been up front about my own lack of first hand knowledge and wanted to know why he was rated so highly, as I don't know anybody on his record, and nearly every great fighter nowadays conquers several divisions.
It's a fair question.
One possibility I think is the 'penis extension argument' whereby men like to have certain hardcore knowledge that elevates them above other men.
In the case of boxing I think guys like Ricardo Lopez are supreme, because they are very little known if at all to the casual fan, and even regular boxing fans like myself may not have seen him.
So by talking about such fighters as if they were better than the current lot of popular fighters, it gives the more hardcore fan the satisfaction of superior knowledge, kind of like a film nerd who takes satisfaction in naming some obscure film like Shichinin no samurai as the greatest ever as he knows the common masses won't have seen it and so must yeild to his greater knowledge of the subject............
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