Is Chris Eubank the lowest ranked divisional ATG ever?

Eubank definitely has an argument if Benn does. Because Eubank is ahead in their series AND beat more SMW champions. Benn got a gift against Mallinga who was a future champion and Eubank edged Malinga. Eubank beat ex IBF champion who never lost the title in the ring. And he beat another ex IBF champ on top of that.

Also I think you're overrating McClellan a bit here. If Malinga is able to outbox Nigel Benn and Benn is able to win 8 out of 10 rounds it exposes McClellan as a big punching frontrunner with no stamina and little in the way of a defence in my book. The public might prefer to watch a Benn and McClellan war but a Eubank-Rochiagani is boxing at a higher technical level.

 

Seven.

 

Perhaps, I agree he said he didn't want to be in that type of fight again. Although in the past IIRC he said he'd kill Steve Collins if needed to in order to keep his belt. The thing is if there was crazy money

Also fighting Roy Jones is very different to fighting Nunn or Toney. You're not going to die fighting a technical bout with Nunn and Toney.

 

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But nobody expected Watson to fight like he never had before against Eubank the second time. Toney said he 'hated' Eubank, and could really turn it on and walk down opponents or throw clusters of combinations.

 

I'd argue that the Rochiagani fight could put him in at number 1. Yes Benn-McClellan had helped build up a Jones fight in America and Britain but Rochiagani at least on that level. You're confusing marketing with levels.

You're still ignoring 2 men who beat Benn were ranked below Barkley.

And I answered it in my first post. Lamotta, sure the ring might have ranked him number 1 or whatever, the Villemain and Robinson fights prove he wasn't. And there's other gift decisions the MOB bought him.

Maxim was never top 2 at LHW head to head.

The likes of Holman Williams, Lloyd Marshall, Cocoa Kid never ranked top 2 unless I remember wrongly. Was Jimmy Bivins ever ranked top 2?

Bernie Briscoe, Roben Carter and George Benton didn't make top 2. Tony Ayala Jr didn't make top 2

Herol Graham never made top 2

Steve Collins and Reggie Johnson didn't make top 2

Del Valle never got top 2 despite being robbed against Virgil Hill

Ike Quartey never got top 2 despite deserving the decisions against DLH imo - This is the nearest parallel example of 3 belt holders not facing each other and Quartey was clearly at least on par with his contemparies.

Scott Harrison, Gainer and Freddie Norwood never made top 2 at FW

Champions like Brewer, Mitchell, Robin Reid and Beyer never got top 2

And I actually made a mistake in looking at the top 2, when there was also a champion - so I reckon there's a good few I missed. Like Povetkin at HW, he was always behind the brothers

 

One thing I'd pay to see is Jones Jr and Eubank have a sparring session

 

Also @lufcrazy Junior Witter was never top 2 and we all know he beats Ricky Hatton, even Ricky knew

 

Their superior knowledge? They're writers and journos!

 

Surely you jest? And if you don't:

They reported Lamotta's Yarosz and Villemain bouts were robberies and they reported Robinson beat him. So while he ranked top 2 and won the championship by fouling. Lamotta was never Top 3 in the world. He might have been top 2 due to robberies, but if you believe The Ring so clearly, you know he wasn't genuinely top 2 in the world. Villemain also beat him when he was champion.

Also if a fighter ranks top 2 but has a champion in front of them, they are technically ranked 3rd, the same as Eubank. And I'm pretty sure neither Holman or Cocoa Kid ranked 1st.

Also all that aside the MW-SMW division of the 90s is the best division in history