Who is the stronger fighter Bennie Brisco or Arthur Abraham?

[cotto20]

Bennie had monzon and hagler on the back foot, Arthur has taken out alot of strong fighters, Who is it?

[ChrisPontius]

Hard to tell, but given that Abraham weighs over 175lbs on fight night because of the modern before-day weighins, i'd go him the edge. Briscoe was still making the middleweight limit when he was nearly 40 years of age.

[Rubber Warrior]

Hard to tell, but given that Abraham weighs over 175lbs on fight night because of the modern before-day weighins, i'd go him the edge. Briscoe was still making the middleweight limit when he was nearly 40 years of age.

Perfect response. You've addressed an oft-forgotten key factor that separates today from yesteryear.

:good

[Russell]

Hard to tell, but given that Abraham weighs over 175lbs on fight night because of the modern before-day weighins, i'd go him the edge. Briscoe was still making the middleweight limit when he was nearly 40 years of age.

Monzon himself was a boiled down LHW, and there are claims that he was cheating the scales at times. Looking at him in the ring he certainly didn't always look to be a MW.

Considering Briscoe was backing up one of the strongest MW's of all time in Monzon I'd obviously give him a great chance to back Abraham up.

[ChrisPontius]

Monzon himself was a boiled down LHW, and there are claims that he was cheating the scales at times. Looking at him in the ring he certainly didn't always look to be a MW.

Considering Briscoe was backing up one of the strongest MW's of all time in Monzon I'd obviously give him a great chance to back Abraham up.

I'm actually pretty sure that he'd have Abraham on the backfoot. AA is not that aggressive at all - only in spurts. There have been plenty opponent who had him on the backfoot. Doesn't mean they were stronger than him, though.

On the weight issue: regardless of the idea that Monzon was a boiled down LHW, he still had to make weight an hour before the fight, which doesn't allow severe dehydration tactics that enable Abraham to be a full fledged LHW while fighting as a middleweight.

[cotto20]

Monzon himself was a boiled down LHW, and there are claims that he was cheating the scales at times. Looking at him in the ring he certainly didn't always look to be a MW.

Considering Briscoe was backing up one of the strongest MW's of all time in Monzon I'd obviously give him a great chance to back Abraham up.
Monzon was never cheating scales, what a load of bull s hit

[cotto20]

I'm actually pretty sure that he'd have Abraham on the backfoot. AA is not that aggressive at all - only in spurts. There have been plenty opponent who had him on the backfoot. Doesn't mean they were stronger than him, though.

On the weight issue: regardless of the idea that Monzon was a boiled down LHW, he still had to make weight an hour before the fight, which doesn't allow severe dehydration tactics that enable Abraham to be a full fledged LHW while fighting as a middleweight.
it was 5 or 6 hours before the fight