Who is the man at Light Heavyweight?

[BrutalBodyShots]

(11-14-2014 08:53 AM)lloyd mayflower Wrote:  You cant be the man at a Weight you havent fought at. You can be more than capable of handily smoking everyone at the weight above you, but you are not the man until you prove it.

Some people don't go by that pretty simple thought process.

A select few think that if Mayweather were pushed into the ring in a wheelchair from making Bantam and he passed out and lost to Rigondeaux that Rigondeaux is "the man" at Welter.

[lloyd mayflower]

Yep. This is why we have p4p rankings which are different from "man at the weight" because man at the weight implies in-ring acheivements at the stipulated weight.

[Decagon]

(11-14-2014 03:55 AM)blackbelt2003 Wrote:  

(11-13-2014 01:44 PM)Decagon Wrote:  Roy Jones was a fraud at 175. He won nothing but titles vacated by the true World Light Heavyweight Champion, Dariusz Michalczewski (and Fabrice Tiozzo, who went on to defeat Michalczewski). Anyway, his lineage stopped with Calzaghe.

I don't think Michalczewski was the true champion, though, since he didnt fully unify.

Also, Jones' linear run went on to Tarver, not Calzaghe.



Black

Tarver lost to Hopkins, who lost to Calzaghe.

[blackbelt2003]

Very true. I thought you were going from Jones Jr's loss to Joe and not via Tarver/Johnson/Tarver/Hopkins.


Black

[Dickagon]

I think it's close and then Jones started going for Griffin starting in round 9. He's having a lot of success too. Griffin wasn't looking too good then either so I don't think he'd have beat Jones on the cards.