I'm really hesitating a lot between these names since 2010 : - Artem Dalakian WBA champion in Flyweight - Sho Kimura WBO champion in Flyweight - Cristofer Rosales WBC Champion Flyweight - Wanheng Meenayothin WBC champion Minimumweight - Tavoris Cloud IBF Light Heavyweight champion - Krzysztof Glowacki WBO Cruiserweight champion - Brian Carlos Castano WBO Super Welter champion - Arthur Abraham IBF Middleweight and WBO Super Middleweight champion - Takahiro Ao WBC Featherweight and WBC Super Featherweight - Edgar Sosa WBC Light Flyweight champion. What do you think of the list ? Which one you will pick ?
I think it's a good list of world champions, if we want we can add others who did well in those years, like Sturm and Hasegawa. Honestly I don't think any of them are underrated, they're good and very good fighters, but not champions. In the era of four world titles they became world champions, that's my opinion. If I had to choose between them I'd say Menayothin, a solid fighter who had a long reign as WBC minimumweight champion.
I enjoyed watching Arthur Abraham and Tavoris Cloud when they were on the way up and champs. They had some exciting fights. I always hated the end of the Abraham-Dirrell fight. Abraham was coming on. He scored a knockdown that wasn't called by the ref. IMO, Dirrell was looking for a way out and took it with the late foul. (Faked shaking and twitching on the ground.) Glowacki was good, too. The Huck fight was shocking. But his run was really brief. A matter of months or a year, really. Brian Castano was just a guy. As for the others, I don't really follow the sport in the smallest divisions. Out of the heavier guys on that list, I'd say Abraham.
It's funny many of my examples are right before 2010. Luis Ortiz Caleb Plant Daniel Jacobs Tim Tszyu Shawn Porter Devin Haney Really the whole Josh Taylor era of 140 champions Tim Bradley Cloud is a good one.
Was interim twice. Lost neither in the ring. The only reason Ortiz's belt was interim and AJ and Fury's weren't and he got stripped and they didn't boils down to boxing politics. AJ became champ by beating Charles Martin and Ortiz beat him at 42. Bryant Jennings, Tony Thompson, Malik Scott, Charles Martin, Kayode, Vidondo, David Allen, Cojanu, Hammer, old Bert Cooper, old Monte Barrett, Pineda, Epifano Mendoza is a good dozen wins for someone who only held a title for about a year. How many modern HW's with 35 wins have a better 15 wins than Ortiz? Ortiz is the only guy Wilder beat who led him in scorecards at 40. He would have beaten Andy Ruiz at 42 under OG rules. Those losses add a great deal to his legacy.
That is an absolute garbage list of garbage men. Nobody gives a **** about an interim title. He's not a world champion, never was and never will be. He also lost his first interim for getting caught with PEDs in his system. Trash all the way.
