The Super Featherweight Division is Dead

Needs a unification tourney.

 

Uchiyama - legit
Salgado - legit
Broner - legit
Ao - not legit, but not the worst titleholder in the sport

They are all fun to watch fight, but odds are you haven't watched them fight too much so wouldn't exactly know that. Also, odds are that you don't follow 130 and therefore don't realize that they have beaten good competition to get to the elite "top 4" of a division (Ao may be the exception).

 

and a potential fight like Juanma-Broner if Lopez wins and moves up is not even possible.

 

broner should clean out his weak division and then move up to 135.

 

Lame thread. Uchiyama is a force as much as Rios is at LW, Broner is very talented although untested, Ao is still improving, while Gamboa could compete at 130 after the LW tour. Add that Lopez might join soon, Mikey Garcia is someone to move up in a few fights and Miniburgos brings some heat, it's a deep field that needs promoters willing to match them up.

 

Lopez going to be there after he gets rid of salido

 

Sorry I just can't respect someone who starts a thread about something they are unfamiliar with. It's not me being smug, it's me detecting your thought process leading up to the thread creation: "ooh, lets start a thread, what should I do, I'll look at the Ring rankings, ooh 130 looks pretty bad, I don't know these guys, I haven't watched them fight, so they must suck."

-Uchiyama is dominant at the weight. A solid #1 in the division.

-Featherweight right below it. Talent from there will come up.

-Broner and Magdaleno, both really young. Broner already a force, having beaten two consensus top 10 guys at super featherweight.

-JC Burgos is a solid top 10 contender out there.

-Roman Martinez still on the rebound. He was the previous top dog here, and a decent one at that.

 

I don't think the Americans will agree with you.

 

Uchiyama looked damned good in his last fight against Solis. Maybe not as good as Gamboa, but pretty freaking good nevertheless. He and Broner are basically 1 and 1A right now, and a match-up between them would be pretty intriguing.

Salgado's a step down, but he does have that one round victory over a then highly regarded Linares. Ao's probably not far away from Salgado's level, to be honest. I think Ao-Uchiyama would be a pretty good match-up at the weight.

Some of the main contenders at the weight are good fighters in their own right. Diego Magdaleno and Bryan Vasquez are very good boxers, Burgos is solid in all areas, and Roman Martinez has the ability to end a fight with one punch.

So, it's not completely bereft of talent, and it's far from the worst era in the division's history. Maybe if this had been posted four or five years earlier, when Fana and Baloyi and St. Clair and Klassen were playing hot potato with title belts, I would have agreed with the OP.

Now...not so much.

 

Why? Because of Broner and Magdaleno?

Based on that: "I don't think the Japanese will agree with you." They've got Uchiyama and Ao at SFW.

 

And crap...NS beat me to it.