Quote Originally Posted by killersheep
Quote Originally Posted by hittmann
after the destruction of harris is witter ready to take on the elite at 140

who are his best matches and who would give him a run for his money?
(even though he doesn't make much)
Well the only fighters that are still worth following at 140 are
Paulie Malignaggi, Ricardo Torres and Junior Witter.
Everyone else has been destroyed by Hatton, Cotto or Witter already, or moved up to 147.

There are other guys still in the division that show promise, but NOONE else I would consider to be elite.
ex. Gavin Rees, Gianluca Bronco, Colin Lynes, Ted Bami, Herman Ngoudjo, Juan Urango, Kendall Holt et. al.
For me, the light-welter division has taken a big dip over the past two years or so, and that is what has allowed Junior Witter to become the primo force there. Hatton has moved up, Tzsyu retired, Gatti fell from grace and Mayweather didn't want to stick around, Cotto has moved up, and those are an awful lot of big names to leave a division.

I do believe that Witter is probably the best Light-Welter in the world at the moment, with feather-fisted Paulie Malignaggi having been beaten by Cotto, and vulnerable to a puncher, and Torres still not having faced top-level opponents in the same range as Witter, although his resume remains a little bare.

The question really should be, is there anyone in America that can really progress Witter's career, or would he also be better off stepping up and competing at welterweight?