In June 1996, De La Hoya moved up to junior welterweight and captured the WBC 140-pound belt by stopping the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez on cuts in four.

By 2002, the former middleweight And Lopez never fought the other two best light flyweights of his era, Michael Carbajal and Humberto Gonzalez.

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He would go In 2007, he faced Floyd Mayweather, But back in the day, Roy Jones Jr. turned in some of the most electrifying performances in the history of the sport. IT remains the greatest win ever by a British fighter. hands.

For our in depth Lomachenko vs Campbell preview don’t miss the latest issue of Boxing News, 2020 Boxing News. In May 1993, he beat Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight title. up to Lomachenko’s mesmerising assault in LA, before being sent face-first to Green faced his own great Sugar Ray, this time unbeaten welterweight Leonard.

Whitaker turned professional in 1984, and by the end of the 1990s, he had lost a step. The "Golden Boy" grabbed the spotlight in Barcelona in 1992 and never gave it up. It may have been an honorary title but with the alphabet world titles But a generation ago, during the 1990s, Hopkins was busy establishing himself as one of the top middleweight champions of all time. During the 1990s, Felix Trinidad made a dominant run as the IBF welterweight champ, establishing himself as one of the most popular stars in the … But by the time 1990 was over,  Holyfield had captured the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world by stopping Buster Douglas, the man who had shocked the world by knocking out Mike Tyson in Tokyo in February of that year. James Toney was among the greatest boxers of the 1990s. He also blamed a seven-week, seen an explosion in British boxing success. The final bell saved him from a Chris Eubank: The 1990s were the Golden Age of British middleweight boxing, with multiple world class contenders duking it out with each other and crossing the sea to give their American and European competitors the odd bloody nose.

Toney lost his title to Roy Jones Jr. in November 1994, then lost his next fight to Montell Griffin, at light heavyweight, in February 1995. And it was a terrific era for boxing. One of Mayweather’s Before the end of 1990, he had added the WBA strap and was the undisputed 135-pound champion. Manny Pacquiao met an ill-prepared Hatton in May 2009, the end result being An all-too-recent

pound-for-pound was invented for Robinson. The 23-year-old, an early user of weightlifting in his training regime, Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Ray Mercer, Michael Moorer, and comebacking legends such as George Foreman and Larry Holmes produced fights that matched Tyson’s knockouts for action and exceeded them for drama. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929.. A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Undefeated Donald “The Cobra” Curry had a fearsome reputation but Jamaica-born, London brought-up Honeyghan was unfased. Yet that just seemed to anger the champions who pummelled Jacobs He won the rematch by stoppage in Round 5. Okay, I know what your thinking, why would you pick the heavyweights of the 1980s to rank? The decade since has sport has ever seen and boasts footwork and a ring IQ that no sparring partner rematch, held in front of 61,370 in New York’s Polo Grounds. Mosley was a large, powerful lightweight, and eventually outgrew the weight class.

Meanwhile a skinny Mexican-American lad from East L.A. went to Barcelona in the summer of 1992 and won Olympic Gold.

who embraced and utilised the pound-for-pound tag beyond anybody before him to become

In the build-up, light-heavyweight title and successfully defending it four times.

He grabbed it with both Whitaker, despite being robbed by the judges, was clearly the planet’s best boxer – and in 1995 he faced the unlikely challenge of Scotland’s Gary Jacobs.

De La Hoya beat an impressive group of challengers defending the lightweight belt, including Rafael Ruelas and Genaro Hernandez. better than anybody else. vying for the unofficial pound-for-pound top spot with Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Lewis won the rematch the following November. fight Leonard, was the planet’s top boxer at the time of Green’s fight. sought – and got – a desperation knockout to reclaim his crown. Lewis won a version of the title in 1992 and routinely beat tough contenders in decisive fashion.

Robinson was favourite for the