Willie Peps legacy?

[NYDominican]

What do you think Willie Peps legacy is to professional boxings featherweight division?


How do you think Willie ranks in the featherweight division, all time?


Why?



What do you think Peps legacy is to boxings "Pound for Pound" category?


How do you think Willie Pep ranks in the "Pound for Pound" category, all time?



Why?

[elmersalsa]

This is beyond words for me. Not enough adjectives to describe this TRUE ALL TIME GREAT. To me, the best fighter of the featherweight division, the best fighter of his time, and a top 5 all time great p4p. Won 230 fights! and only lost 11? Are you serious? Eight of those 11 losses were after he turned 30?....Wow.

[NYDominican]

This is beyond words for me. Not enough adjectives to describe this TRUE ALL TIME GREAT. To me, the best fighter of the featherweight division, the best fighter of his time, and a top 5 all time great p4p. Won 230 fights! and only lost 11? Are you serious? Eight of those 11 losses were after he turned 30?....Wow.

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elmer, 6 or your points above. ------- I see your angle



Your statements here. -------- You said "To me the best fighter of the featherweight division, the best fighter of his time, and a top 5 all time great p4p". -------

Mind if I ask, what about Sandy Saddler? I pose this question, because in the four Willie Pep against Sandy fights, Saddler beat Willie 3 times.

[elmersalsa]

This is beyond words for me. Not enough adjectives to describe this TRUE ALL TIME GREAT. To me, the best fighter of the featherweight division, the best fighter of his time, and a top 5 all time great p4p. Won 230 fights! and only lost 11? Are you serious? Eight of those 11 losses were after he turned 30?....Wow.

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elmer, 6 or your points above. ------- I see your angle



Your statements here. -------- You said "To me the best fighter of the featherweight division, the best fighter of his time, and a top 5 all time great p4p". -------

Mind if I ask, what about Sandy Saddler? I pose this question, because in the four Willie Pep against Sandy fights, Saddler beat Willie 3 times.

He was indeed in my mind without a doubt, the MOST DOMINANT FIGHTER OF HIS ERA. Some say the greats Sugar Ray Robinson or Ezzard Charles were better in the 1940s, but I do not buy it. He is an all time top 5 great p4p...Just look at his body of work. INCREDIBLE!...He dominated his weight class for a long period of time.

Now, he fought the great Sandy Saddler 4 times. Saddler beat him 3 out 4. By 1948 or '49, Willie was in the down slide after he suffered a terrible plane accident, and still beat Saddler in the second fight with extraordinary boxing skills and class. Some say that the 3rd or the 4th fights do not count. I do not know about that, but, still, he was better than Saddler. He beat guys that beat Saddler, too. Guys that Saddler could not beat, Pep beat them.

[Jpreisser]

Pep is the most skillful and dominant fighter I have seen or read about at featherweight. He could do amazing things in the ring and my jaw almost hit the floor the first time I saw Pep-Famechon: http://youtu.be/Xq09V2AeKvo

[Ambling Alp II]

He was amazing. I rank him as the best featherweight of all-time; Sanchez and Saddler are the only others worth discussing. Pound for pound he is borderline Top 10.