Fighters who cleaned their division out in a short amount of time.

He did the same at lightweight.

 

Tyson made quick work of the HW's...

 

Michael Carbajal did a pretty good job of cleaning house in the light flyweight divsion during the early 90's. His streak didn't last long though.

 

He didn't clean out 130.

Sammy Serrano was linear.

Mike Tyson and Sonny Liston more or less cleaned out their divisions in a rather short period of time.

 

Curry ....

 

I think Sammy Serrano would strongly beg to differ.

 

Well everyone loses; Marciano proves the rule

 

I think plenty would of liked to of found out.

 

Arguello was the superstar, he was always looking for the bigger fight. From what I have read, the Duran fight nearly happened before Arguello dropped that decision to Fernandez.

Once Duran moved up, Arguello was more concerned about the Lightweights than any unification with the potentially tough, but relatively unknown Serrano; well that is my take on Arguello/Serrano anyway.

 

There is a famous Ring Magazine cover in the 70's of Roberto Duran
holding a picture of Alexis and Duran with his fist drawn and snarling.

Alexis looked pretty young then.

IMO, Duran would have beaten him at Lightweight. Duran was
known to get kinda p.o.'ed back in those days.

 

The year may be young, but we already have a serious candidate for understatement of the year....

I hark back to the Lampkin fight, but IMO it was the coldest statement ever given in boxing, because you knew Duran meant it:

After being told Lampkin had been taken to hospital after his fight with the Hands of Stone, Duran responded (in Spanish):

"If I had been in shape, he (Lampkin) would be going to the morgue."