Boxrec make JMM No1 Lightweight. Who agrees?

[ICB]

1. Nate Campbell
2. Juan Manuel Marquez
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Juan Diaz
5. Joel Casamayor
6. Julio Diaz
7. David Diaz
8. Santa Cruz
9. Yuri Romanov
10. Breidis Prescott

[Fenster]

Forget the silly alphabet belts - you're (bilbo) picking the champ on your interpretation of formlines. That just complicates things further. How about Casamayor already having a victory over Campbell?

Marquez is the MAN because Casa was the man. Campbells three alpahbets mean fuck all. Fact.

[ICB]

Forget the silly alphabet belts - you're (bilbo) picking the champ on your interpretation of formlines. That just complicates things further. How about Casamayor already having a victory over Campbell?

Marquez is the MAN because Casa was the man. Campbells three alpahbets mean fuck all. Fact.

Juan Diaz was considered the man when Nate Campbell beat him and he was considered the best Lightweight at that time and was also top 10 P4P.

[Fenster]

Forget the silly alphabet belts - you're (bilbo) picking the champ on your interpretation of formlines. That just complicates things further. How about Casamayor already having a victory over Campbell?

Marquez is the MAN because Casa was the man. Campbells three alpahbets mean fuck all. Fact.

Juan Diaz was considered the man when Nate Campbell beat him and he was considered the best Lightweight at that time and was also top 10 P4P.

Casa was the man from when he beat Corrales

[kingfrnk]

i guess hes #1 BUT only because he kod casa which is a hell of a way to enter 135 but you cant count nate out either they might as well face each other

[kojikabuto]

Forget the silly alphabet belts - you're (bilbo) picking the champ on your interpretation of formlines. That just complicates things further. How about Casamayor already having a victory over Campbell?

Marquez is the MAN because Casa was the man. Campbells three alpahbets mean fuck all. Fact.

Juan Diaz was considered the man when Nate Campbell beat him and he was considered the best Lightweight at that time and was also top 10 P4P.

Casa was the man from when he beat Corrales

what the?? hahaha

[Kev]

Forget the silly alphabet belts - you're (bilbo) picking the champ on your interpretation of formlines. That just complicates things further. How about Casamayor already having a victory over Campbell?

Marquez is the MAN because Casa was the man. Campbells three alpahbets mean fuck all. Fact.

You know, it's a really complicated picture. I completely agree with you that according to the Ring criteria that Marquez is now the man as he did indeed beat the man and is now the linear champ.

But it's more confusing than that. The Ring rankings are devised as a way to rank fairly and accurately the state of each boxing's divisons so that mess of the alphabet titles and dodgy organisation rankings becomes clearer.

In this particular instance though going strictly by the Ring's ranking criteria only serves to muddy the waters further so to speak.

Coming into his fight with Nate Campbell there is absolutely no question that Juan Diaz WAS considered the man to beat in the division. Casa had been the beneficiary of arguably one of the worst judging decisions of all time and had looked terrible against Santa Cruz. Furthermore he simply wasn't fighting and was too inactive.

Diaz on the other hand was on a tear through the division, holding 3 belts and forcing reigning champ Julio Diaz and lightweight great Acelino Freitas to quit on their stools from the punishment he was dishing out.

There is absolutely no question that Juan Diaz was THE man in the lightweight division. He didn't have the claim to lineage that Casa had but he clearly and undisputabley the best fighter in the division.

So Campbells dominating victory over him was huge.

Meanwhile Casa had had like one fight in two years and got schooled, it was simply no contest as to who was the champ in the division.

So whilst I agree with you that the 'correct' ranking is to put Marquezs as champ for beating Casa, this is simply not an accurate reflection of the lightweight division.

Marquez didn't beat the best lightweight, he didn't beat the real number one in the division. Nate Campbell did when he beat Juan Diaz.

This means that the Ring rankings in this particular case actually produce an innacurate picture of the lightweight division.

It's something of an irony but shows that even the Ring rankings are flawed and that indeed that ranking fighters is very hard if not impossible to do.

[Fenster]

Casamayor became THE MAN after beating Diego Corrales.

Diaz has NEVER been THE MAN - which means Campbell's victory over him means he's NEVER been THE MAN either (how stupid is this stuff )

I agree with your formlines though. I don't think Casamayor had been the top lightweight for a good while.

[Kev]

Casamayor became THE MAN after beating Diego Corrales.

Diaz has NEVER been THE MAN - which means Campbell's victory over him means he's NEVER been THE MAN either (how stupid is this stuff )

I agree with your formlines though. I don't think Casamayor had been the top lightweight for a good while.

I think we clearly both agree in reality. Marquez as champ is the 'correct' decision, but it's not the accurate decision reflecting reality is what I'm saying.

This man who beat the man stuff is kind of stupid as well though.

I mean what happens if Marquez retired whilst still champ, who would be the man then? Or would we never have a ring champ in the lightweight division again?

I think it's nice to trace the lineage of the championship but in reality to stick to it rigidly means that the rankings get as ridiculous as the alphabet way of doing things.

According to your reasoning once a fighter becomes THE man then there is no possible way, other than defeat for him to lose that status.

Imo being inactive for well over a year and then getting dominated in your first fight back should be enough to have you relegated from being THE man, especially when in your abscence another undefeated fighter has picked up 3 of the 4 recognised belts in your division.

Casa may have been THE man according to lineararity but he was simply DONE according to all other boxing rating criterea

[OumaFan]

I have some problems with the whole lineal idea, I really don't care about it even slightly actually, but if you want to go ahead and call him the man cause of that fine but Nate's win over Diaz was clearly more impressive. I'm not even sure if that's debatable, Casa hasn't looked good for years.

[OumaFan]

I've been agreeing with Bilbo a lot lately

[The Fightfan]

The lineal championship I agree with. I think Marquez fought the real champ last night and Campbell is #2. So obviously we have to make a Campbell Marquez fight right ? Well hopefully.

[rjj tszyu]

The lineal championship I agree with. I think Marquez fought the real champ last night and Campbell is #2. So obviously we have to make a Campbell Marquez fight right ? Well hopefully.

I'd love to see this fight and then the winner take on Pac and I think lose to Pac!

[antimoron]

Some of you guys made me laugh. If Pacman beats up a 29-34 year old fighter, he is branded as fighting oldies and past their prime. If Marquez beats up a 37 year old fighter he should be number 1.. What the hell If Pac moves up and beat a recognize belt holder he is branded as fighting the weakest champion (as the case against D. Diaz). But if Marquez beats up and win the fraud belt of Casa(fraud coz it was a gift from Santa Cruz) he is the greatest? You guys are really funny here, like the way you don't give credit to campbell's accomplishment. Campbell beats up a PRIME+MULTIPLE BELT HOLDER fighter. Campbell should be above Pacman and Marquez. Don't reason out like Marquez beat the man who beat Campbell before.. Hey the man who beat Campbell before was a fresher Casa not a 37yr old Casa. If you consider this kind of reasoning, heres another one, Pac beat D.Diaz who knock Santa Cruz out who win on most peoples eye but lost to Casa in a controversial decision. Its sucks right... Lets just wait who clean up the division but for the mean time i give Campbell his credit and rank as the man of the lightweight. He may be a weak champ with many L on his resume but has the credential and wins against credible champs as of press time.

[XaduBoxer]

To add more confusion to the no. 1 lightweight chaos, try to predict the winner of these match ups... For those fights that already happened, try to stick to the most recent official results... Enjoy and have fun ...

PAC vs David Diaz - PAC TKO9
PAC vs Campbell
PAC vs JMM - PAC SD12
PAC vs. Juan Diaz
PAC vs. Casamayor

Campbell vs David Diaz
Campbell vs PAC
Campbell vs JMM
Campbell vs. Juan Diaz - Campbell SD12
Campbell vs. Casamayor - Casamayor UD10

JMM vs David Diaz
JMM vs Campbell
JMM vs PAC - PAC SD12
JMM vs. Juan Diaz
JMM vs. Casamayor - JMM TKO11

Who do you think will come out the big winner in these match-ups?

So far PAC is 2-0-0 and Campbell and JMM are tied at 1-1-0

If I complete the match-ups, IMO PAC will come out 5-0-0, Campbell at 4-1-0 and JMM at 3-2-0 ...

So I have my no. 1 LW = PAC
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