Forgotten/Underappreciated Moves Up In Weight

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    I've always found a well past prime, almost 40 year old Nunn with all his fire gone fighting all the way up to Cruiserweight underappreciated to some degree.

    He fought from MW to CW and beat great to respectable names in almost all of those divisions.

    Well into his 30's he went to Germany and fought Graciano Rocchigiani to a razor thin SD loss, a fight I think I had to Graciano by a point. Not bad consider Graciano was blatantly robbed against Maske and sparked out Michalczewski.

    Who else, and why?
     
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  2. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    how about Guillermo Jones starts off at WW and is now a CW champion.
     
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  3. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Dingaan Thobela won the WBO lightweight title in 1990 and KO'd Glenn Catley in the last round of a fight he was losing to win the WBC super middleweight title in 2000. :good
     
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  4. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    George carpentier boxed at every weight from fly to heavyweight.
     
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  5. PowerPuncher

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    Holman Williams - started at LW to go all the way upto LHW
    Billy Conn - LW-HW
    Cerdan - most of his career was as a WW, no one remembers that
    Carpentier - went from fighting for WW titles to HW titles (french/european) in 2 years.
    Charles/Moore/Patterson - MW-HW
     
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  6. Flea Man

    Flea Man มวยสากล Full Member

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    Guillermo Jones.



    What about Duke McKenzie???
     
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  7. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    WBO titles in 3weight classes
     
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  8. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    there was a british guiy who did that too cant remember the name but he went pro at 12
     
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  9. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You could be thinking about Ted Kid Lewis.

    I can track him down on Boxrec as having boxed between 116 and 162 fighting for the empire lightheavyweight title. He turned pro at 15.
    Incidentally he fought Carpentier as well at light heavy, Carpentier's weight that is 175.
     
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  10. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Your probably thinking of Len Harvey though, he turned pro at 12.
     
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  11. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    and world war one
     
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  12. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    yeh they both fought at every weight
     
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  13. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ted kid lewis got paid a tanner(2 1/2p) for his first fight and a penny back for a cup of coffee !! legend
     
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  14. Ischbaad

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    He won an IBF belt at flyweight.
     
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  15. markedwardscott

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