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Syntax Error wrote: ↑15 Feb 2018, 12:13

actjac wrote: ↑11 Feb 2018, 11:25 a totality of work over the course of a career like Floyd Mayweather Jr. or rather like Muhammad Ali, Julio Cesar Chavez and Roy Jones Jr. just an exceptional few years of brilliance?

I think you do Ali a disservice to say that he is rated for an exceptional few years of brilliance.

It's widely acknowledged that he missed his prime years & it's his performances in the 70s (the greatest HW decade) where he was past his best are the reason why so many think he is the GOAT.

I will say that this decade (and especially the next decade) is becoming the greatest ever.

JCS wrote: ↑11 Feb 2018, 12:50 In all fairness, it should be a mixture of both..

50% peak value/achievement
50% career value (in total)

It's up to whatever each individual thinks it is. There's no hard & fast rule.

As long as you look at fighters from Day One.

I've had plenty of discussions with people who think Joe Calzaghe is Britain's greatest ever boxer but they've never heard of Jimmy Wilde

Lennox Lewis could never beat Mike Tyson. His b*tch ass was knocked out by Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman. Way too chinny. Mike Tyson would KO him in 1. His losses to Rahman and McCall are incontrovertible proof that it's 100% impossible for him to ever beat Mike Tyson, end of discussion.

Also...

Boxrec idiot logic: Vitali couldn't beat Mike Tyson, because he once couldn't finish a fight with a torn rotator cuff.