name some fighters who have moved up two divisons & won a world tittle In the 1st fight at that weight. im thinking roy jones jr, who else
Akira Yaegashi did it a couple months ago. 105 to 112 and won the lineal title from Igarashi in his first fight.
1. He fought Tarver for a lhw title in his first fight after the Taylor rematch at mw...so yes he did jump two division in his next fight and won a title. 2. Not to be a stickler but 170 is still technically lhw. Not the limit I know but still....and that was after Tarver.
Beat Ruiz a 2nd tier champ and had to have his own ref in his back pocket to boot. I ask who went two divisions up and beat the real champ at the weight? Ruiz?
what fight was this.. the only one i know pacquiao jumped up 2 weight divisions was delahoya and i dont think he had a belt (could be wrong)
Just boxrec'd it. I'm a huge Koki fan but I wasn't certain. He did have one fight at bantamweight against Cecilio Santos before fighting Alexander Munoz (the one Santa Cruz just beat 2 1/2 years later) for the vacant WBA. For the Santos fight, Koki came in at 115 3/4, which is bantamweight. Santos weighed 119, just to give you full disclosure of my boxrec findings!