Emile Griffith - best lmw ever?

No

 

i think that when you conside he weighed within or around the Light middle limit for all his middleweight fights in the 60's there is a good argument.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson and Stanley Ketchel weighed about the same. Among others.

Nino Benvenuti has an argument to be above Emile Griffith.

 

Yep, the LMW but you either go by how good someone is at a weight or go by achievement at the weight or combination of those 2. Griffith didn't fight many fights officially at the 154lb weight and he certainly isn't the best unofficial 154lber, I'm not even 100% convinced he was the best sub 154lber of his generation

 

You could make some good head to heads at 154 then.

Talking about Benvenuti, him and Griffith had 3 close fights, Griffith winning one of them. Benvenuti was at the middleweight limit and Griffith was at the lightmiddle limit, give or take half a pound.

 

End thread.

 

NO! That title belongs to "Hitman" Hearns......:good

MR.BILL

 

Robby never held a title at 154.......:rasta

MR.BILL:deal

 

1. Obviously if I was going to choose someone it'd be Benvenuti, although I'm not sure who I rate higher, but Napoles has a case for being better below 154 given he beat Griffith

2. Yes if were looking at who'd be a bad ass at 154lbs but didn't necessarily compete much for titles there you can pick from: Robinson, Burley, Holman Williams, Leonard, Walker, Hearns, McCallum, Roy Jones, Galivan

 

:huh

Who said anything about titles?