If Oscar wins will he be the first fighter ever to come down from 160?

[DaxxKahn]

Gotta disagree, Daxx. Vernon Forrest is right there in his own weight division and he has a title. Besides, you really meant a lack of an elite fighter Oscar was willing to face. Paul Williams was practically begging for an opponent and luring Margarito to 154 would have been easy. Oscar just didn't want those guys. He leapfrogged a guy who last fought 20 pounds south of his normal weight class.

Im sorry did you miss what I said?.....I made it clear that Oscar avoided those guys (Williams, Margarito, Cotto etc).....Sure it would have been easy to lure Tony and sure Williams was looking for an opponent but in truth are either the caliber opp he is looking for on his resume.....

Good fighters yes but they are not revered in the same breath as...Mosley, Trinidad, Hopkins, Mayweather etc....All of which were the top P4P or at least the person that rivaled him in popularity or challenged him on the ratings list....He lost to them all....He does not want to be known as the fighter who was great but dropped the ball when he faced the cream of the crop in their primes....

Varnon Forrest?...Are you kidding me?...The guy who just lost to Sergio Mora (yes he avenged the loss but it is a point) a guy who is really not thought highly of...(I like the guy but the boxing world has him at not being what he should be).....Forrest who should have been given the L in the Quartey fight...Forrest would be of no real signifigance at this point..

Titles at this stage mean nothing to DLH...They are trinkets...So the fact Forrest has a title means nothing......

Yes he is jumping a guy 20lbs ahead because he wants...No make that he NEEDS that win over the elite P4P opp and right now he can care less who it is as long as he has a better then 50/50 chance of winning.....

This fight is not for money...not for the fans....not one people have beem begging for...it is one DLH hopes gives him that W

[Mikkel_K]

Varnon Forrest?...Are you kidding me?...The guy who just lost to Sergio Mora (yes he avenged the loss but it is a point) a guy who is really not thought highly of...(I like the guy but the boxing world has him at not being what he should be).....Forrest who should have been given the L in the Quartey fight...Forrest would be of no real signifigance at this point..

To answer the question from the thread title, Sergio Mora is another who came down from 160 to win a title. Oh well, I assume you mean from 160 to 147 - otherwise ODLH has already done the feat once. However, someone must surely have made that jump as well, at the very least before the Light Middlleweight Division was installed (way back when).

Although he struggled, Roy Jones did btw go from winning a HW title to winning a LHW-title in his next fight, too.