Best light heavyweight Tommy Burns can beat?

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  1. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Who’s the best light heavy you see Tiny Tommy scalping?
     
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    Marvin Hart perhaps?
     
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    Wasn't Hart a heavyweight ?
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    He beat O'Brien who for the first half of the 20th Century was conasidred an all time great at 175 .... I'm sure he could beat a lot of... he was crafty, fit, strong and a very god puncher for his weight .
     
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    My bad, I misread the title.
     
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    Eventually. He fought for 5 years as a light heavyweight. Picked up some decent wins over Weinig, Stift, Kid Carter, and Dan Creedon in that timeframe.
     
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    Tommy Gibbons perhaps?

    In general, I think he'd have a good shot vs. any LHW rated toward the bottom of the top 25 & lower.
     
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    The recently deceased(may he RIP) Vyacheslav Uzelkov?
     
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