Inspired by Sweet Scientist's 140 pound tournament from a while back. I've randomly picked 32 lightweights from the annals of boxing's rich history, you might feel i've must some out who are more worthy than a name involved, but i think the list is good and i really wanted to mix up the eras. The tournament includes: Roberto Duran Benny Leonard Joe Gans Pernell Whitaker Carlos Ortiz Ike Williams Lou Ambers Ken Buchanan Shane Mosley Alexis Arguello Lew Tendler Jack Blacburn Jose Luis Ramirez Sammy Angott Jimmy Carter Ismael Laguna Joe Brown Freddie Welsh Hector Camacho Mando Ramos Esteban Dejesus Aaron Pryor Julio Cesar Chavez Jose Luis Castillo Beau Jack Bob Montgomery Henry Arnstrong Frank Erne Tony Canzoneri Barney Ross Diego Corrales Joel Casmayor The tournament works likes this; Over the next couple of weeks i will post fights that i have randomly picked out of a hat (sad i know), you must give some form of reasoning for your answer otherwise it will not be counted, i will count up the votes after giving notice of when the voting is to be closed. The fighters with the most votes progress to the next round, until we have a winner. If there is a fighter you have not seen footage of but you do have knowledge of him, then feel free to make an analysis and a pick for the bout he has been picked to participate in. Okay first round picks are as follows: Jose Luis Ramirez vs Sammy Angott Lew Tendler vs Aaron Pryor Freddie Welsh vs Jack Blackburn Hector Camacho vs Mando Ramos Pernell Whitaker vs Benny Leonard Carlos Ortiz vs Alexis Arguello Esteban Dejesus vs Frank Erne Shane Mosley vs Henry Armstrong Joe Brown vs Jimmy Carter Ismael Laguna vs Roberto Duran Jose Luis Castillo vs Lou Ambers Julio Cesar Chavez vs Beau Jack Barney Ross vs Tony Canzoneri Floyd Mayweather jr. vs Bob Montgomery Joe Gans vs Diego Corrales Ike Williams vs Joel Casamayor REMEMBER, NO VOTING IN THIS THREAD. I will put the voting threads out tomorrow. Please join in everyone where you can.
Come on La-Califa, don't knock my tourney before it gets under way. You know my heart's in the right place! Like i said i wanted to mix it up and i know there are some that the board would feel more worthy than who are in it. I made the tourney at my own peril! But i'm not changing now, the fights are already made, some just slip your mind sorry for the offense!
You have the best two lightweights Pernell Whitaker vs Benny Leonard facing each other in the first round.:-( atsch :huh
I'll admit there was corruption here, i didn;t want him winning! Kidding, it's just a massively deep division, the greatest lightweights are in there,
How long ago was the one I did? Must be about two years now. We had separate people doing each of the traditional weight classes, and the voting for each one would go on for about a week. Was pretty cool actually... I took the lightweights. I think Benny Leonard won.
What can i do? That's how they drew i swear, i'm honest. Also we have probably the fight of the tournament in the first round in Ortiz-Arguello.
Oh okay, maybe we could do this again if some of you want to take up the responsibility, would be great.
So? That's exactly the same as my first round matchup from before. Who the hell wants to give all the greats an easy time on the first round? Might as well just round up the usual suspects and cut it down to an eight man tournament. **** that, throw 'em to the wolves.