KO's Top 12 Lightweights of the 80's.

Lol i am not convinced myself. I think we have all agreed on his inconsistency. It is the lack of cleaning out the division combined with loses to the others on this list that make placing him there....well something I don’t feel comfortable with. Like JT said if this was H2H Whitaker JCC Arguello & Camacho would vie for the prize. But can you rate guys who spent 11 monthths to 2 years at the pinnacle higher than Rosario who was 1 for 2 years and top 6 for another 5, with some solid wins as well. To me this might be the toughest division of the decade so far that JT has posted. So many guys stepping up and out of this division leaves us without a dominant clear choice. Rosario provably gets it for me by default.

 

Yeah, your previous post made me doubt my own previous statement about Whitaker! I guess his best was split between 2 decades but he established himself as the no. 1 lightweight in the world in the 90s.

 

I feel Rosario`s biggest test was Chavez and Chavez won it but a lot of people feel he beat Camacho, but thanks for expaining, I would have loved to have seen a bout with Pae v Rosario also too.

 

ha! ha! I was going to warn him about you!

 

Camacho ran a lot during his bout with Rosario after being hurt.

 

I was going to mention Whitaker v Haugen.

 

I agree....he also ran non stop against Mancini, but I doubt it hurts his standing very much

 

As for his ATG lightweight ranking, I have him top 10 but lower half. He seems to have crept up the rankings over the years but imo he doesn't quite have the standout wins or longevity in his championship reign to make the top 5 when compared with Gans, Leonard, Willams, Ortiz or Duran. I have him around no. 6 or 7 - still unquestionably a great of the division though.