I’ve long felt that there was never a legitimate need for a weight division below Flyweight but there have been some great fighters who fought in the Strawweight and Light flyweight divisions. If you had to put together a This content is protected , what would it look like? Bear in mind that you can combine the resumés of fighters who fought in both divisions.
108 : 1.Humberto Gonzalez 2.Myung Woo Yuh 3.Jung Koo Chang 4.Yoko Gushiken 5.Michael Carbajal 6.Hilario Zapata 7.Saman Sorjaturong 8.Roman Gonzalez 9.Jorge Arce 10.Hiroki Ioka 105: 1.Ricardo Lopez 2.Ivan Calderon 3.Chana Porpaoin 4.Ratanapol Sor Vorapin 5.Roman Gonzalez 6.Kazuto Ioka 7.Zolani Petelo 8.Nkosinathi Joyi 9.Alex Sanchez 10.Muhammed Rachman
Coincidentally, having done top 20's in the original 8 weight divisions during Covid, I'm now part way through (starting at the lightest, I'm currently half way through SBW) researching top 10's in the 9 x inbetweener divisions. I limit my analysis to fights contested in the weight divison in question, so have never considered Min and L.Fly combined. Off the top of my head it would be something like this: 1. Chang 2. Lopez 3. H. Gonzalez 4. Carbajal 5. Calderon 6. Yuh 7. R. Gonzalez 8. Moonsri 9. Zapata 10. Gushiken HM. Porpaoin
1- myung woo yuh 2- ricardo lopez 3- jung koo chang 4- humberto gonzalez 5- michael carbajal 6- yoko gushiken 7- rosendo alvarez 8- ivan calderon 9- chana porpaoin 10- jorge arce just missed the cut- hi young choi, hideyuki ohashi, roman gonzalez, leo gamez
Excellent lists. No room for Chayaphon Moonsri at Minimumweight? In easily the weakest division in boxing history, he went 53-0, including 13-0 in world title fights and whilst his opposition wasn't great (whose was at Minimumweight?), Condes, Koncko, Estrada, Juarez, Nokia and Fukuhara were all top 10 ring magazine rank contenders when Moonsri beat them.
I believe that Knockout surpassed Wanheng at this point, pretty clearly. If We take 105 and 108 together - Nietes's resume is quite a bit superior. So is Kenshiro's at 108 alone.
I limited my list to those who fought in the official Min and L.Fly divisions. If I included all fighters who weighed in that weight range regardless of the weight divison they competed in, Wilde would be my clear #1.
If you're only counting official participants, Jimmy Barry doesn't qualify. However, he competed around this weight for much of his career and, according to the book written on him by Mark T. Dunn, he competed in over 150 fights without loss.
