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

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.

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

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

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.