Reminder: Moving weight divisions is overrated.

And because at least one of the belt holder is usually teh best in the division. To get all 4 you simply cant cherry pick.

 

Yeah, he ran away from Tszyu to safe fights with Quartey and Trinindad! :good

Many people leave the comfort zone to pursue biggest challenges.

I can't see how sitting in the most comfort weight zone at cost of poor resume (many call that beating all comers - all mediocre comers actually) is better than moving up (many immediately call that cherry-picking).

 

The best in the division often can't get others, that's another reason to move up.

 

PS I would also have more respect to B-Hop if he never unified 4 belts and instead moved up for RJJ rematch.

 

You make fair points but it shouldn't be a prerequisite for being called a great fighter just by moving up. Two of Oscar's "titles" are paper anywhere. I actually like Oscar & if you can find me some evidence that he asked for a fight with Tszyu & was turned down then it will strengthen your point.

 

There was a lot of ego & politics involved in that which is obviously regrettable because it would have been a great fight.

 

That's true . . . but you know why? The governing bodies actually is not really encouraging unifications . . . why? Because it's taking long for the mandatory fights to take place. So . . . their collection of sanctioning fees is also being hampered.

 

I agree:good This mainly depends on the level of competition but overall I agree with you

Dominating a division for a while however is not rewarding financially or in a status elevation sort of way unless their is ample competition.....however often times this isnt realized until after the fact...quite the opposite is true of "weight class hoppers" who go after big name/money fights anywhere within 2 or 3 weightclasses, these fighters are criticized for avoiding dangerous and credible opponents....after the fact and well they should be(many of the avoided are champions themselves) so while the big name/money fights are great their is still quite abit missing, and it all gets lost in the shuffling of weightclasses and in the end looking back it's almost less comendable than dominating a single division with depth.......

I'm sure we can all draw examples of fighters on either extreme, however the best in my opinion do abit of both

Cheers:good

 

In some cases this is true in others it is not. Hopkins stayed at middleweight and ruled a weak division while Roy seeing no challenges in that weight class moved up and whooped ass along the way. I am way more impressed with Roy's accomplishments than Bernard's

 

Diaz is suppose to be a tune up fight for pac to know if he can take the lightweights.if you just want to test the water first, and can you tell me another boxer who fights a champ in a division just to know if he can be successful there?