Can you go up TWO weight classes and take the belt?

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  1. PernellSweetPea

    PernellSweetPea Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think speed will be his Achilles like it is most fighters.
     
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  2. Ilikeboxing

    Ilikeboxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You'd fancy Eubank Jr vs big LHW's like Artur, Bivol, And Kovalev?
     
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  3. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Wow, now I feel old. You're right.

    It got way less common once the junior and super divisions came about.

    The most recent example that comes to mind is Monster Inoue, who jumped from light flyweight to super to dismantle long-reigning champ Omar Narvaez.

    Besides him and Hops, I can't think of any more modern dudes who've done it.
     
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  4. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    Yeah. Boxing history is a way of making one feel old. :lol:

    Good call on Inoue.
     
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  5. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Leonard was a welter champ retired, came back and took Hagler's belt. Emile Griffith was welter champ and he took Dick Tiger's middleweight belt. And after Griffith took his middleweight belt Dick Tiger took Jose Torres' light heavyweight belt, not another p4p guy but the man in his division and interesting none the less.
     
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  6. PH|LLA

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    Broner did it as Drenlou pointed out.
     
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  7. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Partial credit from me for Broner only because Paulie was the weakest beltholder at the weight. Same with Roy with Ruiz.

    Heck of an accomplishment still, don't get me wrong.:beer-toast1:
     
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  8. Oneirokritis

    Oneirokritis The Scourge of Stupid Idiots. Full Member

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    No. But you can take the $400k payday, quit after barely throwing any punches and then slink away a beaten, broken, humiliated and emasculated shell of a man like Guillermo Rigondeaux. :sisi1

    He will never, ever live this down.
     
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  9. Boxing Prospect

    Boxing Prospect Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Inoue did it recently and SMASHED the living **** out of Narvaez...
     
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  10. Ilikeboxing

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    Iran Barkley is no Loma.
     
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  11. Oneirokritis

    Oneirokritis The Scourge of Stupid Idiots. Full Member

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    Completely schooled Tarver in that one.
     
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  12. mirkofilipovic

    mirkofilipovic ESB Management Full Member

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    It was easier long ago to move up multiple weightclasses due to the existence of PEDs, and lack of drug testing.
     
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