Emile Griffith: (october)1962-(december)1963 [loses to carter] Rubin Carter: (december)1963-(february)1965 [loses to rodrgiuez] Luis Rodriguez: (february)1965-(june)1965 [loses claim when benvenuti beats mazzinghi] Nino Benvenuti: (june)1965-(june)1966 [loses to kim] Ki-Soo Kim: (june)1966-(october)1967 [loses to little] Freddie Little: (october)1967-(july)1970 [loses to bossi] Carmelo Bossi: (july)1970-(october)1971 [loses to wajima] Koichi Wajima: (october)1971-(june)1974 [loses to albarado] Oscar Albarado: (june)1974-(jan)1975 [loses to wajima] Koichi Wajima: (jan)1975-(june)1975 [loses to yuh] Jae-Doo Yuh: (june)1975-(feb)1976 [loses to wajima] Koichi Wajima: (feb)1976-(may)1976 [loses to duran] Jose Duran: (may)1976-(october)1976 [loses to castellini] Miguel Castellini: (october)1976-(march)1977 [loses to gazo] Eddie Gazo: (march)1977-(august)1978 [loses to kudo] Masashi Kudo: (august)1978-(october)1979 [loses to kalule] Ayub Kalule: (october)1979-(june)1981 [loses to leonard] Ray Leonard: (june)1981-(january)1982 [vacates claim whilst benitez beats duran] Wilfred Benitez: (january)1982-(december)1982 [loses to hearns] Tommy Hearns: (december)1982-(july)1985 [loses claim when mccallum beats braxton] Mike McCallum: (july)1985-(november)1987 [vacates claim whilst jackson beats baek] Julian Jackson: (november)1987-(march)1990 [vacates claim whilst norris beats mugabi] Terry Norris: (march)1990-(december)1993 [loses to brown] Simon Brown: (december)1993-(may)1994 [loses to norris] Terry Norris: (may)1994-(august)1994 [loses claim when vasquez beats wright] Julio Vasquez: (august)1994-(march)1995 [loses to whittaker] Pernell Whittaker: (march)1995-(december)1995 [loses claim when norris beats vaden] Terry Norris: (december)1995-(december)1997 [loses to by mullings] Keith Mullings: (december)1997-(december)1998 [loses claim when vargas beats campas] Fernando Vargas: (december)1998-(december)1999 [loses to wright] Ronald Wright: (december)1999-(december)2000 [loses claim when trinidad beats vargas] Felix Trinidad: (december)2000-(june)2001 [vacates claim whilst de la hoya beats castillejo] Oscar De La Hoya: (june)2001-(march)2004 [vacates claim whilst wright beats mosley] Ronald Wright: (march)2004-(november)2005 [loses claim when karmazin beats ouma] Roman Karmazin: (july)2005-(july)2006 [loses to spinks] Corey Spinks: (july)2006-(july)2007 [loses claim when forrest beats baldomir] Vernon Forrest: (july)2007-(june)2008 [loses to mora] Sergio Mora: (june)2008-(september)2008 [loses rematch to forrest] Vernon Forrest: (september)2008-(february)2009 [vacates claim whilst martinez beats cintron] Sergio Martinez: (feb)2009-(june)2010 [vacates claim whilst cotto beats foreman] Miguel Cotto: (june)2010 - present [premiere lmw]
As an inbetweener I know not much emphasis is put on the division, but it's had some great fighters through it over the years. What are people's thoughts on my timeline? From Wright leaving the division until williams domination of phillips, it gets tricky but other than that I'm fairly happy. It also depends how you view norris's losses to santana as well for whether or not vasquez overtook him. I had winky beating vargas in 99 but then tito cut a swathe through the divison so I'm contenet with that choice.
Quite different from lineal. It's just a timeline of who I think the best boxer in the division was month by month.
Agreed. I sometimes feel people get too caught up on alpha v lineal and look past the fighters to the belts themselves.
I've made some changes since I did this thread but haven't uploaded them until every choice has been scrutinised. This is just an interim timeline remember. I'm currently downstairs watching big bang theory whilst drinking stella and pondering whether to go out on the smash so long story short I can't be arsed checking my latest version to see if he made the cut
