Hall of Fame lightweights: Pedro Montanez Henry Armstrong Lou Ambers Ken Buchanan Esteban De Jesus Ike Williams Roberto Duran Beau Jack Packey McFarland Bob Montgomery Pernell Whitaker Julio Cesar Chavez Alexis Arguello Jack McAuliffe Joe Gans Benny Leonard Jimmy Carter Lew Tendler Tony Canzoneri Barney Ross Billy Petrolle Joe Brown Edwin Rosario Freddie Welsh Sammy Mandell Battling Nelson Carlos Ortiz Ismael Laguna Willie Ritchie Lew Jenkins Kid Lavigne Ad Wolgast Sammy Angott These are just the solid lightweights. Nevermind Johnny Dundee, Duilio Loi, Baby Arizmendi, Louis 'Kid' Kaplan, Flash Elorde, Jose Napoles and others who campaigned at the weight. And not forgetting Dave Holly, Jack Blackburn, Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Esteban De Jesus, Willie Joyce, Rocky Kansas and others who have yet to make it into the Hall. Deep.
at Rosario being there.He looks so out of place when scrolling down that list. You're right though, maybe the deepest weightclass of all.
The greatest of the weight classes, which is something when you look at the middleweight division for example.
I've never understood the people who claim the middleweight division was the deepest. There's depth, but not more than a small handful of truly legendary fighters at the top.
Not the deepest, but still quality. It just accentuates how great lightweight has been through the years. Just think how many good fighters from back then would have held titles today.
Lightweight is really deep. I think it has some of teh greatest fighters of all time in it. In terms of the depth of it and the competiveness of teh top places i think Bantam is deeper
i meant like you got like 40 fighters campaigning for to 20 places at Bantam the likes of Herrera, Rudkin etc... although notof the quality of some of teh Lightweights top 20
