Who had the longest prime ever?

[BennyST]

How convenient to avoid a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya who many experts in boxing consider he lost.



Got him past Kostya "Thunder from Down Under" Tszyu as well!

Really? Really?



Will this ever slow down?

[TJ highway]

So what's your excuse for his retirement?

[GodOfBoxing]

Foreman: Peralta, Chuvalo, Wepner...

From first world class opponent beaten to the last. Even if they dip in form during that time. Some off the top of my head (Feel free to correct some of these, Im just going with the first and last fighters that I recognise as being WC. If I dont recognise any then Im just going with title wins):

Floyd Mayweather: Genaro Hernandez 1998 - Manny Pacquiao 2015 = 17years (2 years retirement)

Bernard Hopkins: Sergundo Mercado 1995 - Jean Pascal 2011 = 16years

Sugar Ray Robinson: Sammy Angott 1941 - Carmen Basilio 1959 = 18 years (2 1/2 yr retirement)

George Foreman: Joe Frazier 1973 - Micheal Moorer 1994 = 21 years (10 year retirement lol)

Roberto Duran: Ken Buchannan 1971 - Iran Barkley 1989 = 18 years

Manny Pacquiao: Catchai Sasakul 1998 - Timothy Bradley 2016 = 18 years

Who else? I suspect Sam Langford, but dont know enough about the names on his resume.

Duran and Pac currently tied at 18 years with no retirements

Top of my head! Duran you'd think something/ some fights set him up!
It's a interesting study much would open up I imagine. I'm not gonna begin digging on that in-particular because it don't matter to me so much but...some loose notes here. You looked at Archie Moore?
A "game" like that I LIKE and I used it with my own *little "career". I take first eight opp line (I fought Ne golden gloves Lightmiddle champ Anthony Daley on St. Pat,s day, 1989; he had lost decision vs Roy Jones Jr. one-year earlier in Nationals). I look at those boxers at their "height", W-L-D. I call it -the back que. record. For what it's worth ("probably not much") I had a 94-4-2. Gerry Cooney had a record "somewhere around" 15-20-4. Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali each have good "back que". But my "paper-work" is shuffled-lost until next week. But, they have record "something like" 158-44-8 stuff-like-that.
Another good "game" is to look at the YET LIVING FOES OF BIG-TIME PEOPLE! ALI; ROCKY MARCIANO TWO.
[if you have a bit of wealth you could "touch" good somebody there!].
Another good "game" of lists (haa..) is whom you FOUGHT whom they FOUGHT. [This a little-bit **bragging on myself but....... ]1)MMoorer a win; 2)Roy Jones I have three common opponents with 3)Dana Rosenblatt, have four common opp.
Could keep going! HVY.-wt champs you have met, *personally. Contenders you have "step in the Ring with" to fight.Champions you have "met"! [[*had the late Bert Sugar introduce me to PINKLON THOMAS ONE TIME! : )]]
______I hope I don't get tossed OUT/ OFF BoxingScene for getting too sqig. here! Ha, Ha!__

[lopetego]

Floyd by far, he even retired in his prime

Pac-Floyd was a match between a prime, PED fueled fighter and a washed up, injured one

It had to be that way, Floyd would have never fought the prime version of Pacquiao

i mean, he even invented a whole bs anti-PED crusade just to avoid him

[Humean]

I wouldn't call it dubious as a world class win, considering Castro was coming off a championship reign including wins over top champs of that era like Reggie Johnson and John David Jackson.

But it would definitely be from Marcel to Castro. Both were world champions and world class, especially Marcel who is one of his most underrated wins. Great, great champion.

It is dubious because it was about 18 months after Castro's defeat against Takehara, it is not clear that he was as good a fighter here fighting at 168 as he had been 2-3 years earlier when he was having great fights with Jackson, Johnson and Takehara at 160.

[IronDanHamza]

How convenient to avoid a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya who many experts in boxing consider he lost.



Got him past Kostya "Thunder from Down Under" Tszyu as well!

Define the term "many" because I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people had Mayweather beating De La Hoya.

He also had nothing to do with the Tszyu fight not happening.