My timeline of the premiere LMW in the world.

[lufcrazy]

Emile Griffith: (october)1962-(december)1963 [loses to carter]
Rubin Carter: (december)1963-(february)1965 [loses to rodrgiuez]
Luis Rodriguez: (february)1965-(june)1965 [loses claim when benvenuti beats mazzinghi]

Nino Benvenuti: (june)1965-(june)1966 [loses to kim]
Ki-Soo Kim: (june)1966-(october)1967 [loses to little]
Freddie Little: (october)1967-(july)1970 [loses to bossi]
Carmelo Bossi: (july)1970-(october)1971 [loses to wajima]
Koichi Wajima: (october)1971-(june)1974 [loses to albarado]
Oscar Albarado: (june)1974-(jan)1975 [loses to wajima]
Koichi Wajima: (jan)1975-(june)1975 [loses to yuh]
Jae-Doo Yuh: (june)1975-(feb)1976 [loses to wajima]
Koichi Wajima: (feb)1976-(may)1976 [loses to duran]
Jose Duran: (may)1976-(october)1976 [loses to castellini]
Miguel Castellini: (october)1976-(march)1977 [loses to gazo]
Eddie Gazo: (march)1977-(august)1978 [loses to kudo]
Masashi Kudo: (august)1978-(october)1979 [loses to kalule]
Ayub Kalule: (october)1979-(june)1981 [loses to leonard]
Ray Leonard: (june)1981-(january)1982 [vacates claim whilst benitez beats duran]

Wilfred Benitez: (january)1982-(december)1982 [loses to hearns]
Tommy Hearns: (december)1982-(july)1985 [loses claim when mccallum beats braxton]

Mike McCallum: (july)1985-(november)1987 [vacates claim whilst jackson beats baek]

Julian Jackson: (november)1987-(march)1990 [vacates claim whilst norris beats mugabi]

Terry Norris: (march)1990-(december)1993 [loses to brown]
Simon Brown: (december)1993-(may)1994 [loses to norris]
Terry Norris: (may)1994-(august)1994 [loses claim when vasquez beats wright]

Julio Vasquez: (august)1994-(march)1995 [loses to whittaker]
Pernell Whittaker: (march)1995-(december)1995 [loses claim when norris beats vaden]

Terry Norris: (december)1995-(december)1997 [loses to by mullings]
Keith Mullings: (december)1997-(december)1998 [loses claim when vargas beats campas]

Fernando Vargas: (december)1998-(december)1999 [loses to wright]
Ronald Wright: (december)1999-(december)2000 [loses claim when trinidad beats vargas]

Felix Trinidad: (december)2000-(june)2001 [vacates claim whilst de la hoya beats castillejo]

Oscar De La Hoya: (june)2001-(march)2004 [vacates claim whilst wright beats mosley]

Ronald Wright: (march)2004-(november)2005 [loses claim when karmazin beats ouma]

Roman Karmazin: (july)2005-(july)2006 [loses to spinks]
Corey Spinks: (july)2006-(july)2007 [loses claim when forrest beats baldomir]

Vernon Forrest: (july)2007-(june)2008 [loses to mora]
Sergio Mora: (june)2008-(september)2008 [loses rematch to forrest]
Vernon Forrest: (september)2008-(february)2009 [vacates claim whilst martinez beats cintron]

Sergio Martinez: (feb)2009-(june)2010 [vacates claim whilst cotto beats foreman]

Miguel Cotto: (june)2010 - present [premiere lmw]

[lufcrazy]

As an inbetweener I know not much emphasis is put on the division, but it's had some great fighters through it over the years.

What are people's thoughts on my timeline?

From Wright leaving the division until williams domination of phillips, it gets tricky but other than that I'm fairly happy.

It also depends how you view norris's losses to santana as well for whether or not vasquez overtook him.

I had winky beating vargas in 99 but then tito cut a swathe through the divison so I'm contenet with that choice.

[Pachilles]

Originally Posted by lufcrazy

Griffith: 1962-1963
Carter: 1963-1964
Mazzinghi: 1964-1965
Benvenuti: 1965-1966
Kim: 1966-1968
Mazzinghi: 1968-1968
Littles: 1968-1970
Bossi: 1970-1971
Wajima: 1971-1974
Albarado: 1974-1975
Wajima: 1975
Yuh: 1975-1976
Wajima: 1976
Duran: 1976
Castellini: 1976-1977
Gazo: 1977-1978
Kudo: 1978-1979
Kalule: 1979-1981
Leonard: 1981
Benitez: 1981-1982
Hearns: 1982-1984
McCallum: 1984-1988
Jackson: 1988-1989
Norris: 1989-1993
Brown: 1993-1994
Vasquez: 1994-1995
Whittaker: 1995
Norris: 1995-1997
Marquez: 1997
Campas: 1997-1998
Vargas: 1998-1999
Wright: 1999-2000
Trinidad: 2000-2001
De La Hoya: 2001-2004
Wright: 2004-2005
Ouma: 2005
Karmazin: 2005-2006
Spinks: 2006-2007
Forrest: 2007-2008
Phillips: 2008
Williams: 2008
Martinez: 2008-2009
Spinks: 2009-2010
Cotto: 2010 - Present day

Duran deserves a mention

[lufcrazy]

Originally Posted by Pachilles

Duran deserves a mention

I assume your on about the 76 lmw champ and not the 76 lw champ

[canucks9314]

This is not the same thing as lineal champ, right?

[lufcrazy]

Originally Posted by canucks9314

This is not the same thing as lineal champ, right?

Quite different from lineal.

It's just a timeline of who I think the best boxer in the division was month by month.

[McGrain]

Little comes out looking good. I'm glad, he's underated. Beast of a puncher.

[lufcrazy]

Originally Posted by McGrain

Little comes out looking good. I'm glad, he's underated. Beast of a puncher.

Agreed. I sometimes feel people get too caught up on alpha v lineal and look past the fighters to the belts themselves.

[Flea Man]

Where is Boudouani???

[lufcrazy]

Originally Posted by Flea Man

Where is Boudouani???

I've made some changes since I did this thread but haven't uploaded them until every choice has been scrutinised.

This is just an interim timeline remember.

I'm currently downstairs watching big bang theory whilst drinking stella and pondering whether to go out on the smash so long story short I can't be arsed checking my latest version to see if he made the cut