Which current fighters have made a career out of winning...

miguel cotto, even though he's beaten real good opposition throughout his career.

 

hmm says...
you mean the dude was given the title or titles by a consensus agreement?

 

Funny but that is the first name that popped in my head when I read that title to.

 

it worked for roy jones.

 

Cotto. Calzaghe didn't beat a reigning champ until he was 34. He made up for lost time in a hurry though

 

Jones won 2 vacant titles I believe. He won the other 4 or 5 from reigning champs.

 

If im not mitaken i think Valero

 

Valero has won two titles. One was off the reigning WBA LW champ. The other was a vacant title.

 

Your question is flawed in itself.. NOBODY , not that I recall, makes a career out of winning vacant titles. They may have won 'em but that doesn't mean their entire careers revolve around those titles, especially nowadays when titles don't have the same value due to so many "available". Fighters make a career out of hard training, and consequently winning good, exciting fights . If they don't win , they don't get a payday, they don't make a career.

 

Well, Cotto has been in the game for like 8 years and all three of his belts were vacant when he won them. He has never even faced a reigning champ. Top Rank paid step aside money so that he could fight Quintana for a vacant belt and then they pounced on the opportunity to fight Jennings for that WBO belt that Williams vacated(Top Rank made no efforts to match Cotto with Williams when Williams had the belt). That's about as close as you can get to making a career out of winning vacant belts.

 

Are you sure that his WBA belt at superfeather wasnt a vacant title?

 

Enzo Macceranelli

 

That's not true, Fraudarinelli only held the WBO title and that belt was handed to him without having to fight for it when Johnny Nelson retired.

 

good call.