The Greatest Lightweights of All Time

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9 Julio Cesar Chavez

I can't beleive I didn't notice the absence of Whitaker from H's seeing as how Whitaker is my favorite fighter of all time. Wow.

Anyways, I agree with your assesment of Leonard and Duran, but you also put JCC on your list. Just wondering why? He fought at super feather the first half of his career, beat Roger Mayweather at super feather, and then I think he fought just one or two title fights at 135 before jumping up to take Mayweather's title at 140. Unless you are lumping him into lightweight using the original 8 divisions, I can't make sense of that one.

One main reason; Chavez/Rosario, IMO, the finest fight of his entire career, and the victory over Ramirez was not too shabby either. In his shortish stay at 135lbs he proved himself the dominant fighter of the division.

And Any fighter who has proven himself dominant at Lightweight IMO qualifies at least for a mention on my list; and the style and dominance of his victories over Ramirez and Rosario gets him a top 10 slot.

I haven't seen the Rosario fight, but still, he only fought a couple fighs and putting him over fighters like Carter, Jack, Ambers, even Castillo doesn't sit well with me.