Has any fighter completely unified in their third weight class in the 3/4 belt era?

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  1. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Yeah apparently beating opponents you have a significant weight or reach or both over>>beating opponents who are much naturally bigger/heavier and longer than you :lol:
     
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  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Yep and it's often completely ignored that they were able move up through the weight classes because they were juiced to high heaven lol
     
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  3. Geo1122

    Geo1122 Active Member Full Member

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    What Pacquiao had accomplished puts him up there for the argument of being the greatest. Most past and current fighters pale in comparison, so it’s a weak gauge to criticise Loma in my opinion.

    All I’m saying is that any fighter that moves clearly above his optimum weight class, and clears out that division deserves great praise.
     
  4. dangerousity

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    Based on what? You ca quit propagating your bs without evidence now, at least provide something. I might as well go on to say Ali was juiced to high heavens, same evidence as you, absolutely none, not even a smoking gun.

    And you also make the claim one was able to climb those waits due to PEDs, so when was that exactly? I recall Pac had already gone up to his 7th weight division at SFW wayyy before ped even came into question.
     
  5. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    What happened to the one and only true king, Oleksandr of house Usyk?! First of His name, King of Cruiser and Real Fighting Men. Rightful King of the 17 Weightclasses and Protector of the Art, The Unbeaten, Breaker of Chins, Regent of Boxing.
     
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  6. The Akbar One

    The Akbar One Obsessed with Boxing banned Full Member

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    Not sure there are three weight classes in a row, where the title holders are as weak as what Crawford faced at 140. If there were weight classes with titlists that weak, it would have been done a few times already probably.
     
  7. chatty

    chatty Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No one has unified more that one division. In fact there has only been five fives in history that has had all four belts on the line (males anyway).

    Bernard Hopkins v Jermaine Taylor 1/2
    Terrence Crawford v Julius Indongo
    Oleksandr Usyk v Murat Gassiev and Tony Bellew

    Not sure how many fighters have partially unified seperate divisions. BHop for sure did at MW and LHW, pretty sure both Floyd and Manny did at somepoint, Holyfield was undisputed at CW and HW but that was in the three belt era.

    Loma could potentially fully unify 2 division in 2/3 more fights though deoending on how the landscape plays out.

    Lomachenko v Commey/Lopez fully unifies LW
    At LWW Ranirez holds two belts and the winner of Taylor v Orograis will hold the other two so he'd either have to fight both or hope they fight each other then fights the winner.

    Tough challenge and boxing politics dont usually allow it to be that simple.
     
  8. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Off the top of my head

    Roy Jones
    James Toney
    Clenelo
    Evan Fields (allegedly lol)
    Shane Mosley
    Antonio Tarver
    Fernando Vargas
    Virgil Hill

    And there's more who pissed dirty too

    No I didn't
     
  9. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    That just shows your lack of boxing knowledge. Google it. Lineal in 4-5, champ in 8. Not sit your ass down. And your criteria for which champions count and which don't is irrelevant, at least to the history books and general media.
     
  10. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    You seem angry.