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

Nah, Duran already vacated the lightweight title.

Jim Watt and Hilmer Kenty were the champs at 135 in 1980.

 

bhop started his career above 160 anyways

 

Back when their were only 8 divisions, any fighter who moved up in weight to capture a title did the equivalent of what, nowadays, would be jumping 2 divisions.

 

Hopkins is a great fighter and all but stop with these threads, he wasn't the first or most impressive to do ****.

 

how many of the old classes would Pac have passed through


answer that question

 

Flyweight was the lowest, so he'd have gone from Fly up to Welter, spanning Bantam, Feather, and Light in between.

It'd be all different though. With half the divisions, you have double the talent pool per division with half the titles to be spread around. It would be loads tougher for any fighter to get a belt, get a belt in two divisions, win eliminators to get titlists to fight you, etc, let alone at the same rate Pacquiao did spanning the 8 divisions (cough! JMW was BS, cough!) he won titles in now. Plus, back with the original 8 divisions means the original 8 titles, in which case a young Pacquiao wasn't nearly good enough in his Flyweight days to be able to win the title there, in my opinion (unless he lucked into a Sonny Boy Jaro).

 

Yeah :good, Montreal was 2 years after he defended his title in the 3rd De Jesus fight so it was quit ******ed of me to assume it might be that. Duran must have vacated after defending against De Jesus then fought some light welters and welters before Leonard. He beat the **** out of Palomino who was an excellent world class welter.
I wonder why people assume Duran went straight from lightweight to fight Ray at welter? It wasn't like he was fighting a bunch of none entities, there was a few good names he beat in between De Jesus and SRL.

 

Yeah, I don't know how that myth came about.

It was a long time between Dejesus and Leonard, and like you said, he beat some good names.

 

I have a feeling Pac will be fighting Cotto for a MW title at 149 catchweight.