critique my Lightweight rankings

Tangent: Baby Arizmendi beat Armstrong twice at featherweight.

Shows how damn GREAT he was. At his his natural weight; he went 2-1 against arguably the greatest boxer to ever live.

:bowdown

 

Not at face value, no. But when you take a closer look it becomes clearer and thins out a bit.

Ambers is a great win obviously. Spoldi and Day are good wins.

Bass was a great FW. He was at the end of his career when Hank fought him and hadn't been a ranked LW contender in years. That he was knocked out in 4 rounds says more about the fact that he was finished more than it does about Hank scoring a great LW win here.

Wright was a FW. He was not a ranked LW contender when Hank fought him.

From what I can see, Ghnouly was not a ranking LW when Hank beat him and and hadn't been for some time, so no major LW resume props there.

Klick was SHOT and not ranked. He was losing more fights than he was winning by the time Hank put him out of his misery. I can't give this much as far as LW resume points goes.

Both Feldman fights were decent wins at best. From what I can see, he was unranked and hadn't been a ranking LW in awhile. Look: http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Lightweight--1930s

By Chavez I'm guessing you mean Tony, a FW who (again, from what I can see) never was a ranking LW contender.

One of the Arizmendi wins you credit Hank for was at FW, where Baby was at his best. I give credit to Hank for one LW win over B.A.

 

Billy Petrole, anyone ?

He has to be there somewhere, somehow....

 

Chavez was an avenged loss I think that's why I mention it.

I'm sure both arizmendi victories were above fw.

Bass and Wright are the kinda victories every great has. Maybe not against the beat versions but legit wins non the less.

Ghnouly was surely a ranked opponent at the time he was facing everyone around and getting good results.

Klick was just a name to give it a nice ten.

 

Why not Jack Blackburn & Lew Tendler?

 

No Willie Joyce?


Get it done Philly!

 

I meant Tendler instead of Blackburn. And I didn't mean to imply Blackburn wasn't worthy; just didn't make my top-5 who I wanted to mention.

 

Bull****.

 

Well, here's 80 odd names for you to consider you *****:

[FONT=&quot]Roberto Duran[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Benny Leonard [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Henry Armstrong [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Joe Gans[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pernell Whitaker[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Barney Ross[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Packey McFarland[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Julio Cesar Chavez[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ike Williams [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Duilio Loi[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tony Canzoneri[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Carlos Ortiz[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Alexis Arguello[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jose Napoles[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jack Blackburn [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Dave Holly[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lou Ambers [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lew Tendler [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Sammy Angott [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Bob Montgomery [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Beau Jack [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ken Buchanan [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Esteban DeJesus [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Freddie Welsh[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Willie Ritchie[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jack McAuliffe [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Sammy Mandell[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]George Lavinge [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ismael Laguna[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jimmy Carter[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Battling Nelson [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Oscar De la Hoya[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Shane Mosley [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Joe Brown[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Billy Petrolle[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Rodolfo Gonzalez[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Wes Ramey[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lew Jenkins[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ad Wolgast[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hector Camacho [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Floyd Mayweather [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Mando Ramos[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Rocky Kansas [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Charley White [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jimmy Britt[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Young Erne[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Young Griffo [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Johnny Dundee[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Frank Erne[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Justo Suarez[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jimmy McLarnin[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Kid Berg[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Del Flanagan[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Flash Elorde[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Freddie Dawson[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Johnny Jadick[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Matt Wells[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jim Watt[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ray Mancini [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jose Luis Ramirez[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Kenny Lane[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Edwin Rosario[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Yoshiaki Numata[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]George Araujo[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jimmy Goodrich[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Stevie Johnston[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Paddy DeMarco[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Carlos Teo Cruz[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Edwin Viruet[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jose Luis Castillo[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Artur Grigorian[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Guts Ishimatsu[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Len Matthews[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Paolo Rosi[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Doug Valliant [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Johnny Busso[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Louis Kid Kaplan[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Sid Terris[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Willie Pep[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Benny Bass[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Manuel Alvarez[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Baby Arizmendi[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Willie Joyce[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

What just happened?

 

No one called me out on my troll attempt, so I called myself out.

 

I think you made some of those names up...

 

Only big stink I have is Duran should be number one.

 

But seriously......Billy Petrole, anyone ? Criminally forgotten !

 

I concur. See post #6