Please Participate--All Time Lightweight Survey (POLL CLOSED!!)

I don't know what to make of Holly he has 3 fights with a guy called Donkey King
Did he have big


ears?

6 fights with Joe Grim,but beats all time greats as well,then his career falls apart.

You don't have Ike Williams in your 10? :huh
Each to their own ,but I would have thought he was a given .
No Ross either?

 

14 days. :err

Why does it seem we had twice as long with the other divisions? :yep

 

Or McAulliffe:admin

 

Well ,Ill say this much McAuliffe, was better than I thought ,I learned quite a bit reading about him,he still doesnt make my ten ,but he has risen appreciably in my estimation .:good

 

Feel worse about leaving Ross out.

I don't know... Whittaker should be in the top 10 BUT I think Chavez did more at 135 and I think their actual fight was more lop-sided than if it have had been at 135 a few years earlier. So IMO the gap is not as big as many believe.

It's possibly me being biased towadrs fighters of my own era.

 

Thanks, Manassa,

This is the hardest poll. I always write down all the greats from the division and then slowly wittle them down. I look at this list today and think Ross, Williams, McFarland, Ambers and Tendler should be on the list.

 

Hey ,they are your picks ,and that is what's requested.:good

 

No worries. You know I'm an Ike Williams nuthugger.

 

Chavez had 4 fights at the weight, while Whitaker unified the division and beat all comers. Typo, maybe?

 

1. Roberto Duran
2. Joe Gans
3. Benny Leonard
4. Ike Williams
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Barney Ross
7. Tony Canzoneri
8. Carlos Ortiz
9. Packey McFarland
10. Jack Blackburn

 

Oh fickle youth .How long ago was it when Roberto Duran was a god ,and Marvin Hagler his right hand man?



ps Three a's in adamant, if you are going to use flowery verbiage, like me ,spell it right.

 

This thread is giving me an ulcer.

 

**** me, the amount of mistakes I could pull you up on.

And I have a lot of favourite fighters, true, and I like talking about some more than others depending on who I haven't talked about in a while. People love to pick up on this as though it is high treason.

 

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