How should history remember Esteban De Jesus?

not necessarily disagreeing but what's your criteria for that ranking?

 

A world class fighter and a tremendous one, great to watch.

 

I don't really have divisional rankings, but at a rough guess I'd say he'd be lucky to squeeze into the bottom of a top 20 at lightweight.

I mean, when you consider the following names:

Leonard
Duran
Armstrong
Gans
Ross
Williams
Whitaker
Chavez
Canzoneri
Ortiz
Arguello
Jack
Welsh
Ambers
Tendler
Montgomery
Angott

I think he'd be clearly below them.

Then you have the likes of Buchanan, De la Hoya, Mayweather, Laguna, Brown, Carter, Joyce, Dawson, Lavigne, McAuliffe, Nelson, Ritchie, Ramey and probably about at least 10 others you could name that are likely candidates to fill out a top 20. I think Dejesus would be one of those ten.


Of coruse you also have names like McFarland, Loi, Locche, Napoles, Blackburn, Holly, Dundee, etc that could be ranked at lightweight as well... but are probably better suited to other divisions.

Like I said though, I don't do divisional rankings and if we strictly look at what was done at the weight, you could probably poke quite a few holes in my argument, e.g. did Chavez, Arguello, Whitaker, really do that much at lightweight to have such high places?