Rank the records of these champions

inspired by Sweets thread.I'm going to list some highly regarded modern lighter-weight fighters that it is commonly agreed fought relatively weak opposition.When drawbacks of these fightes are discussed this is what inevitably comes up.

So who was hampered the most by soft challengers?.Only wins are relevant here.


Rafael Marquez
Naseem Hamed
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Mark Johnson
Myung-Woo Yuh
Jiro Watanabe
Yoko Gushiken
Sot Chitalada
Khaosai Galaxy
Ricardo Lopez
Yuri Arbachakov
Chiquita Gonzalez
Michael Carbajal
Pong Wongjongkam

 

Forgot about Canizales and Calderon isn't very good.

 

A fine effort.There's not much between most of them really.I should have put Canizales and\or lora\Moon instead of Hamed, but forgot about them.

The one i'm sure of is having WongjongKam rock bottom.He's the only one that doesn't really even have one good win over an arguably good to very good fighter imo.

What do you think of Gushiken's win over Vargas? Not enough to put him over Galaxy at least?.

 

I'm not too sure about Vargas.I've thought about the drop in weight before which may well have been a foolish move, though he didn't look shot against Gushiken imo.

He had beaten Rafael Pedroza(limited, but a big puncher with plenty of drive) and Olivo in his run up to the fight, so i tend to consider him still good, but not at his best.The same with Lopez; his effort against Yoko was his last hurrah as a top contender.

Gushiken also has Rafael pedroza in there and Rios and Mercano if you're being generous.Abella i suppose as well, though i thought he was pretty bad.

Galaxy has Orono who's legs had gone(though still probably better than most of his challengers),limited big puncher Contreras, Yong-Kang Kim(decent fighter but at a serious size disadvantage), Willie Jensen and a few like MAtsumura, Pical, Castro, Ford if you want to be generous, though only Jensen could be said to be an above average fighter imo.

I'd say Galaxy bested more ok "serviceable" types with Gushiken's best couple of wins being the better of the two.Defnitely both on the same overall tier for record quality.

The way Gushiken ended his career against a mediocre fighter would come into it in an overall greatness comparison of the two, but i'm just interested in the fighters winning record here.Gushiken does have the weight issues and burnout claims to explain the Flores fights, though it's still a poor way to finish things when he could easily have gone up to Flyweight.

 

Blanco wasn't more than average.The impressive thing there is how he handled him compared to Dave McAuley.

I'd take Gamez as Yuh's best opponent.Then Olivo , De Marco.