Successful and unsuccessful jumps of two divisions

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  1. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    While many boxers try themselves out in more than one division, jumping not one but two is a rare and more extreme move, sometimes ending in success, other times in disaster. Michael Spinks famously jumped from LHW to HW to beat Larry Holmes while the move from LW to WW didn't work out for Diego Corrales. Of course you can jump the other way too, think Chris Byrd unsuccessfully having a go at LHW or Vic Darchinyan first fighting at BW then settling in pretty nicely to FlyW.

    What double division jumps you can come up with?
     
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  2. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hopkins from mw to lhw.
    Armstrong from fw to ww.
     
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  3. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Mosley from 135 to 147.
    Hopkins from 160 to 175
    Pac from 115 to 122
     
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  4. Boom_Boom

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    RJJ 175 to HW
    Pac LW to WW
     
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  5. pehun

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    Duran - LW to WW
     
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  6. Arcane

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    IMO Spinks was the greatest achievement, followed by RJJ then Hopkins.
     
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  7. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    He had some fights at 140 he didnt jump from 135 straight to 147.
     
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  8. Arcane

    Arcane One More Time Full Member

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    Did not know that. :huh

    But in terms of Championships it was a strait jump I guess
     
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  9. SportsLeader

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    Juan Manuel Marquez - Lightweight to Welterweight.
     
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  10. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Greater than Armstrong´s jump from featherweight to welterweight?
     
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  11. Arcane

    Arcane One More Time Full Member

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    I stand corrected
     
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  12. di tullio

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    Hearns jumped from middleweight to light heavyweight, won a title, then came back down.
     
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  13. Tackleberry

    Tackleberry The Reverse Somersault! Full Member

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    Come november 26th and you can add Hasegawa to that list!
     
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  14. The Funny Man 7

    The Funny Man 7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This^^^
     
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  15. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tarver of course recently jumped to HW, but wouldn't call it success.
     
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