If Boxing kept the original weight category's the divisions would look pretty deep and make's the current era not too bad, What do you think? Bare in mind these rankings were thrown together and should be interchangeable and my knowledge of anything below 115 is poor at best. ALSO FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR OWN AS I PROBABLY MISSED A COUPLE OF FIGHTERS HERE AND THERE. * Flyweight (Maximum 112 pounds) 1. Ivan Calderon 2. Ulises Solis 3. Nonito Donaire 4. Roman Gonzalez 5. Denkaosan Kaowichit 6. Edgar Sosa 7. Raul Garcia 8. Daisuke Naito 9. Omar Narváez 10. Oleydong Sithsanerchai ------------------------------------------------------- * Bantamweight (118) 1. Vic Darchinyan 2. Fernando Montiel 3. Christian Mijares 4. Jorge Arce 5. Gerry Penalosa 6. Hozumi Hasegawa 7. Anselmo Moreno 8. Alexander Muñoz 9. Wladimir Sidorenko 10.Joseph Agbeko ------------------------------------- * Featherweight (126) 1. Israel Vazquez 2. Celestino Caballero 3. Rafael Marquez 4. Juan Manuel Lopez 5. Chris John 6. Ricardo Cordoba 7. Steven Luevano 8. Poonsawat Kratingdaeng 9. Daniel Ponce De Leon 10. Oscar Larios ---------------------------------------------------- * Lightweight (135) 1. Manny Pacquiao 2. Juan Manuel Marquez 3. Nate Campbell 4. Jorge Linares 5. Juan Diaz 6. Joel Casamayor 7. Humberto Soto 8. Edwin Valero 9. Rocky Juarez 10. Michael Katsidis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Welterweight (147) 1. Antonio Margarito 2. Miguel Cotto 3. Ricky Hatton 4. Joshua Clottey 5. Shane Mosley 6. Joan Guzman 7. Timothy Bradley 8. Kendall Holt 9. Andre Berto 10. Kermit Cintron ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Middleweight (160) 1. Arthur Abraham 2. Kelly Pavlik 3. Daniel Santos 4. Paul Williams 5. Sergei Dzindziruk 6. Felix Sturm 7. Vernon Forrest 8. Winky Wright 9. Sergio Martinez 10. James Kirkland ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Light Heavyweight (175) 1. Joe Calzaghe 2. Bernard Hopkins 3. Mikkel Kessler 4. Chad Dawson 5. Lucian Bute 6. Jermain Taylor 7. Carl Froch 8. Zsolt Erdei 9. Librado Andrade 10.Glen Johnson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Heavyweight (unlimited) 1. Wladimir Klitschko 2. Vitali Klitschko 3. David Haye 4. Ruslan Chagaev 5. Tomasz Adamek 6. Nikolai Valuev 7. Guillermo Jones 8. Steve Cunningham 9. Samuel Peter 10.Alexander Povetkin
Donaire, Montiel, Vasquez/JuanMa, Pacquiao/JMM, Margarito, Pavlik, Calzaghe/Hopkins and Vitali Klitschko would be the champions.
Good point and nice work! But you miss out one thing...there are fighters who would do nothing. Hatton would not be a success at 147. Makes you wonder about how many other good fighters slipped through the cracks between weights through the years,doesn't it?
Ah SWEET PEA just the man, this really is about an idea more than the actual rankings. fancy giving me your Original Weight class rankings and then have a look and see how deep they look.
Yeah nice lists im not sure if they would play that way tho, but 1 things for sure there'd be less undefeated fighters
This would help boxing tremendously IMO. There would be so much drama in each division it would be insane.
I think it fair that there be a division between light Heavy and heavy . how about between 190 - 210 .
I was thinking that about Hatton as i typed him in at no 3. His work at welter ain't great but he did win a title. I was also thinking the same about Adamek,Jones and Cunningham having to fight the Klitschko's. But i was thinking about this at work today and there were some huge weight disparity's back in the Golden day's of boxing. Johnson vs Ketchel 205/170, 35lb Armstrong vs Ross 133/142, 9lb Carnera vs Louis 260/196, 64lb Marciano vs Louis 184/213, 29lb Liston vs Patterson 215/194, 21lb Couldn't be arsed looking for more but that's the general idea i was thinking about today.
Your right, but what about a Super Heavyweight division to accommodate the much bigger boxers now being produced. The Great Heavyweight's all weighed between 180 and 220 except the last one Lennox Lewis and with Riddick Bowe and the Klitshcko's heralded the era of the Super sized Heavy. I would suggest this to keep the prestige and History of the Heavyweight Title as when you are asked to compare say Lewis and Dempsey it's nearly impossible.
