Duran's Lightweight Status Is Overblown

Yeah I can see why someone would prefer Duran over Canz. I'm still on the fence though, as I find Canzoneri's winning resume superior to Duran's by quite a lot. I value dominance myself, but Duran's record vs ranked men at 135 (so no Kobayashi or 140ers like Ortiz, Bizzaro, Thompson, Robertson etc) is like what, 9-1 ?

Buchanan
De Jesus x2
Ishimatsu
Fernandez
Viruet x2
Lampkin
Garcia

Obviously ATG worthy, and unless I discover something insane that I haven't noticed yet, probably safe to say a top 10 lock. 3 wins over arguably top 20 ATG lightweights, one over a very good champ in Ishimatsu and a standout contender in Fernandez. Though as I made clear in my original post, I find the rest very replaceable (aside from Garcia, who by that point had suffered more wear and tear than the planet itself in its 4 billion years ). So while I do value dominance, I like it to be over consistently top/ranked opposition, which Duran did face, but half of them just happened not to be Lightweights. Though I will say that had Duran been a consistent 140 lber, he is the GOAT uncrowned champion of the division.

Compare this to Canzoneri, who despite his losses, had an insanely deep resume at the poundage:

Jack Kid Berg x2
Kid Chocolate x2
Lou Ambers
Baby Arizmendi
Al Singer
Tommy Grogan x2
Lew Massey
Frankie Wallace
Cleto Locatelli x2
Johnny Jadick
Frankie Klick x3
Bobby Pacho
Joe Ghounly
Joe Glick
Al Roth
Battling Gizzy
Steve Halaiko
Leo Rodak

That's 24 wins over ranked Lightweights, almost 3 times that of Duran's record vs ranked LWs and more than Loma's entire career (and there are perhaps some that I'm missing), and he has the best win between them in Ambers. His losses are quite a lot, and his draw with Al Singer puts his final record vs ranked opposition as 24-11-1. Way uglier looking than Duran's clean 9-1 to be certain. But factors such as the incredibly close nature of almost all those losses (especially the 2 Ross losses, the 2 Jadick losses and Mandell), the avengings (Berg x2, Petrolle), him just being at the end of his road (the last Ambers bout) or too young to be in his prime, and the fact that Canz's contenders are just plain greater than Duran's, and it's just too much for me to pick Duran with any confidence.

Duran ruled as king in the Arctic ocean with 1 setback at one point, while Canzoneri battled the biggest monsters the Atlantic ocean had to offer, and despite quite a few failings, he came back stronger and beat some of the most hideous beasts the sea had to provide, and it provided him with a lot of them. So while I respect Duran's dominance over a small ocean, such a stacked resume of slain beasts may be too great to overlook despite the failures along the way.