Great in more than 2 divisions?

Shane Mosley, LW and WW, he could of been amazing if he'd stopped off at JWW.

De La Hoya, I struggle with this one, Quartey, Vargas, Whittaker, Chavez, although you could argue that he lost to Ike, and both Chavez and Pea were past their best (I see that as beyond argument) also to flip the coin, you could say he beat Trinidad and SSM (at 154)

 

I think you underestimate the depth of lw, lww and ww here. DLH might make it at ww but he didn´t do enough at lww and lmw, well, what actually did he do there? Beating a Trinidad-destroyed Vargas and picking up some vacant belts? Nah, not enough. Oscar is great, a warrior who took on everyone and a great business man but the only weightclass he might make the Top25 is ww. Great weightjumper but his single weight standing suffers due to that.

Similar with Mosley, he had a great, dominant run at lw but over aweful competition. What did he do above outside of beating DLH? Not much, not enough to warrant such a high ranking in those weightclasses. Mosley IMO isn´t great. Very good, yes, but not great.

 

I'll agree with you there, thinking about it Shane's resume is quite thin, it was a weak era at LW, though H2H I think he's able to hold his own against most from that weightclass. De La Hoya was a great win, and Vargas the first time was reasonable, Margarito and Mayorga are also decent. (I see Margarito as just decent because he was taylor made for Shane.) He really should of pushed for the Tito Trinidad fight.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard (If he'd stayed at 154 lbs after the Kalule win)
Roberto Duran (For one night,he was great at 147 lbs)
Alexis Arguello

 

Yeah, DLH´s wins over Gonzalez and Chavez were nice but that division exists for now 80 years, do you really think there weren´t 25 fighters who did more than him? It´s quite a deep division actually.

Yeah, lmw is shallow but does that mean him with wins over Vargas and Mayorga and a loss to Mosley as his best work is enough to get a ranking there? When other fighters even so don´t have the big names but spent a career there? I don´t think so.

Mosley may creep in at 25, there are arguments based on his dominance but, well, I just think his competition isn´t there.

 

i think armstrong is the most clear-cut candidate. he could be in the top ten at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight.

i don't think anyone else could boast such a high ranking in three of the 'original' eight divisions. charles could be top twenty in three, with a question mark over his middleweight resume. langford could be top twenty in three divisions as well, light heavyweight and heavyweight are pretty certain, and then it's 'take your pick' for number three. fitzsimmons is the only other candidate for me.

 

just realised that i mentioned four of my top six pound for pounders... no coincidence i'd say. the other two, robinson and greb, were true greats in two divisions.

 

Duran and Chavez.