Is Kostya Tszyu the best welterweight boxer ever?

Question

Is Kostya Tszyu the best welterweight boxer ever?

Answer 1

NO! Ray Robinson is.

Answer 2

Uh. . . .respectfully, he's not even the best welter of the DECADE, let alone "ever".  And in the 90's, when he was prime, he STILL wasn't the best.  He was very good. . .some may even say excellent. . . . but the best?  Probably not.  (Come to think of it. . .did he EVER fight at welter?. . .I thought he was jr. welter. .)

***Pernell Whitaker was the best welter of the 90's, and it's probably tied in the 00's for Oscar and Floyd as the best welters. . . .with possibly Shane Mosley getting an honorable mention, and definitely Miguel Cotto gaining on all of them.

Answer 3

He's from Kazakhstan.

Answer 4

this is a joke right?

Answer 5

Tszyu is a fine fighter with something like a 31-2-0 record as a junior welterweight.  Sugar Ray Robinson widely regarded as the best pound for pound fighter of all time and best middleweight champ of all time was the greatest welterweight champ of all time.  As a welterweight he lost only one fight and that to Jake LaMotta.  tThrough the year 1947, his record fighting mostly as a welterweight was 84-1-1.  Really kind of hard to top that!

Answer 6

i hope its a joke

Answer 7

I think that you meant to say JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT (140 pounds)- Kostya Tszyu actually never fought at welterweight (147 pounds).  It is arguable that he was ONE OF the best 140 pounders, since the junior welterweight division is not as old as the welterweight division, but the 140 pound class has been around long enough to name a few guys that were better than him:

Tony Canzoneri, Barney Ross, Aaron Pryor, Wilfredo Benitez, Pernell Whitaker, and maybe a few others.  

I think that Tszyu was the best of HIS era at 140, but I think that the guys I mentioned were better than him in their primes.  Even though he brutally beat Julio Cesar Chavez, I still think that Chavez was better in his prime at that weight.

Answer 8

you are kidding right?