Has any fighter in history jumped up 2 weight classes to ........

Duran jumped up from 135 to 147 to fight Leonard.............

 

Akiria Yaegashi jumped 2 weight classes last year to become lineal champion

Robinson's jump wasn't 2 weight classes because there was no Jr classes back then.

 

Michael Spinks. Mike was originally thought to have been a cherry-pick for Holmes to get to 49-0. He had no fights at heavyweight prior to upsetting Holmes, and he did it while being 20 pounds lighter than Larry, to boot.

 

Spinks to HW but tyson was already number 1 by then

 

No one thought Spinx was a cherry pick at the time. Most fans thought the highly skilled, younger and faster Spinx was forced on Larry to stop him from breaking Marciano's record.

 

Wasn't Mosley recognised as the top Welterweight after beating Oscar?
He went straight from lightweight jumped 140 straight to Welterweight.

 

Negative. Holmes-Spinks I was in fall of 1985; look at Tyson's comp around that time. It was just journeyman level, and Iron Mike was a year away from the Berbick fight.

 

I just thought of this

 

That's not how King works. If Spinks was being built to be a dangerous threat to Holmes, they wouldn't have pulled him straight up from 175 with no adjustment fight at heavyweight.

Larry was also a 5-1 favorite in that fight.

It was a cherry pick gone wrong.

 

Evander Holyfield began his career as LHW and won Bronze at LHW in the Olympics.
Then went to Cruiser, to HW where he became undisputed HW champion.

 

duplicate

 

no he wasnt
Spinks beat Holmes in 1985, tyson had like 9 fights back then and had been a pro for only 9 or 10 months

 

Ruby Red Bob fitzsimmons went from Middle weight Champ to beat Jim corbett at Heavyweight to become Champ
the first and the best

 

bob would have schooled hopkins worse than calzaghe.