Willie Pep: Was he The greatest fighter of the 1940s???

[elmersalsa]

Was he the greatest fighter of his generation?
Was he the greatest fighter of the 1940s decade?

[jonp]

I just read his autobiography by Bryan Hughes and he was a phenom no doubt about it.
But what a character chalky wright was i was left wanting to know more about him.

[dr_devious]

My vote for fighter of the 40s would be Ray Robinson

[Chuck1052]

Willie Peo was tremendous during the 1940s, but Sugar Ray
Robinson was the fighter of the decade. I think that Pep was
a better pure boxer, but Robinson was a much better puncher
and had much more durability.

- Chuck Johnston

[raylawpc]

Maybe. There were so many great fighters in the 1940s that, to my mind, its impossible to single out one as the greatest of them all.

Willie Pep was a marvelous fighter, and certainly one of the greatest of a decade loaded with talent.