'greatest' division of the original eight? order them.

1) Welterweight
2) Middleweight
3) Heavyweight
4) Featherweight
5) Lightweight
6) Bantamweight
7) Light Heavweight
8) Flyweight

 

1. Lightweight
2. Welterweight
3. Middleweight
4. Featherweight
5. Bantamweight
6. Heavyweight
7. Lightheavyweight
8. Flyweight

 

1. Welterweight
2. Lightweight
3. Middleweight
4. Featherweight
5. Lt. Heavyweight
6. Bantamweight
7. Flyweight
8. Heavyweight

The first 3 are pretty much interchangeable for my money. 5-7 are pretty tough to order as well in terms of depth, so I seperated them by quality at the very highest level. Heavyweight takes a back seat to all as far as depth is concerned, although the upper echelon stacks up well enough against the latter half of the list.

 

1. Lightweight - Leonard, Gans, Duran, Armstrong, Ross, Canzoneri... How many more pound-for-pound legends do you want? Williams, Ortiz, Arguello, Chavez, Whitaker... So many. Ambers, McFarland... Montgomery, Jack, Buchanan, Laguna, Blackburn, Nelson, Petrolle, Brown, Mosley, McAuliffe, Tendler, Lavigne, Welsh, Angott, De Jesus, Mandell. There are many more.

2. Light heavyweight (take a close look)
3. Welterweight
4. Middleweight

5. Heavyweight
6. Featherweight
7. Bantamweight

8. Flyweight

 

At least we're all in agreement that Featherweight is indeed the 4th greatest weight class. No room for argument there.:good

Edit: Way to blow it, Manassa.

 

****. Heavyweights draw the short straw in a lot of these arguments. Granted, heavyweights in general seem to be lesser fighters than those in lighter divisions, but wouldn't you struggle with an extra thirty, sixty or ninety pounds on your frame? 'pound-for-pound' works in favour of heavyweights sometimes, in that it's harder to be agile and quick when that heavy, therefore we should cut more slack.

 

1. Welterweight
2. Lightweight
3. Lightheavy
4. Featherweight
5. Heavyweight
6. Middleweight
7. Flyweight
8. Bantamweight

 

Flyweight is far deeper than Heavyweight, whereas Heavyweight is stronger at the top. Depends on what you prefer.

 

Light heavyweight?

Think... Charles, Moore, Langford, Greb and Fitzsimmons represent the division quite well in the pound-for-pound lists, without mentioning Tunney, Loughran, Spinks, Jones, Foster, Conn, J.H. Lewis, Gibbons, Rosenbloom, Johnson, Dillon, Pastrano, Maxim, Bivins, O'Brien and others.

 

Fat blokes.