Top 10 Greatest 130lbs. Title Fight Victories Ever?

Somewhere on there I would put Corrales' destruction of Manfredy. One of the most devastating offensive displays in the history of the division.

Wayyyyyyyy above any Gatti performance.

 

I will need to think on it some....but as much as I like Mitchell and López I doubt that should make the cut

 

And how did Camacho's destruction of Bazooka Limon not make the list? That's easily top 5.

 

Freitas v Casamayor

 

You gotta have Cornelius Boza Edwards W15 Bazooka Limon on that list.

Also, Bobby Charon W12 Cornelius Boza Edwards had the WBC champ v. the #1 Contender. Technically, it wasn't a title fight because of Don King and Jose Suillimans shenanigans.

Cornelius Boza Edwards TKO 14 Bobby Charon was high quality and entertaining, as well. That was peak Boza. He was a beast for a few years at 130 lbs.

 

#4 what makes you pick that over the first fight?

#9 which one? Most are partial to 2 I think the first is the best fight ever and they both end in 13

 

Tod Morgan defended the 130-pound crown successfully 13 times during his title reign from 1925 to 1929. The only films of Morgan are a short clip of sparring in 1927 and a few newsreel clips of fights after he moved to Australia in the mid-1930s. Thus, it is hard to judge firsthand which of his fights might have been the most exciting.

A few candidates are his fights with:

Steve Sullivan June 3, 1926; Joe Glick September 30, 1926 (praised both by Nat Fleischer in the Ring and by the AP whose reporter wrote: "Morgan put up one of the nicest exhibitions of boxing seen at the garden in some time. From the start he showed superiority over Glick. He won all his rounds by wide margins. But for the gameness of Glick he would have gone down early in the bout.");

Carl Duane November 11, 1926 (AP: "The "crown still rests" on Morgan's "blonde thatch today although slightly jarred down over one ear.... Duane belted the champion about the head with vicious hooks that brought a stream of blood from Morgan's mouth, but the Coast boy, although unable to floor his rival, poured such a stream of straight, clean punches to Duane's head that there was no question of superiorty.");

Joe Glick December 16, 1927 (BoxRec: "Morgan sank to the floor three times under punches to the body, on which his claims of foul were disallowed. He went down for a count of nine in the second round, and was down twice in the fifth, once for a count of nine and on the second occasion the bell rang. In the 14th round, he again sank to the canvas out of an exchange in mid-ring from a left aimed at the body but which was clear to Referee Forbes to have landed palpably low. Forbes didn't even start a count; he motioned Glick to his corner and signaled Morgan's seconds to come in and carry the injured champion to his corner, disqualifying Glick after the round had gone two minutes and nine seconds. The decision was popular with the crowd." As I recall,Ring Magazine reported that it was a remarkable recovery for Morgan as he was coming on strong toward the end of the bout despite the early knockdowns.).

Eddie Cannonball Martin July 18, 1928 (Second of two exciting bouts. Wikipedia: "In their brutal July bout, the Associated Press gave Morgan eight of the fifteen rounds, and Martin only four, with three even. The fighting was close throughout the contest. Morgan received a gash from a head butt in the first round, while Morgan cut Martin's right cheek in the third. In the tenth, Martin's right eyebrow was cut deeply. Morgan also had a large knot above his right eye, a bloodly nose, and a cut behind his right ear.")

There are others, but this gives an idea.

Morgan was from Seattle and is a homeboy of mine. Given the qualifications of many who have been admitted into the Hall of Fame in recent years, he deserves some consideration.

 

Any combination of the following three: Chacon, Limon, and Boza.

 

This was hard...

1 Arguello vs Escalera I “The Bloody Battle of Bayamon”

2 Yong Soo Choi vs Orlando Soto

3 Kang il Suh vs Mando Ramos

4 Rocky Lockridge vs Wilfredo Gomez

5 Gabriel Ruelas vs Jesse James Leija

6 Takanori Hatakeyama vs Yong Soo Choi 2

7 Tyrone Everett vs Escalera

8 Arturo Gatti vs Tracy Harris Patterson 2

9 Jong Kwon Baek vs Kyu Chul Choi

10 Morales vs Pacquiao I

Tough....honorable mentions

Lionel Rose vs Yoshiaki Numata
Ernesto Marcel vs Kuniaki Shibata
Limon vs Choi Chung Il
Limon vs Navarrete
Limon vs Boza Edwards
Chacon vs Boza Edwards I
Navarrete vs Boza Edwards
Navarrete vs Choi Chung Il
Boza Edwards vs Lockridge
Nelson vs Leija III
Tony Lopez vs Joey Gamache
Cassamayor vs Corrales
Barerra vs Morales III
JMM vs Barerra
Pacquaio vs Márquez II
Yong Soo Choi vs Victor Hugo Paz
Takashi Uchiyama vs Juan Carlos Salgado
JCC vs Lockridge
Lockridge vs Lopez
Mitchell vs Lopez
Lopez vs Molina
Brian Mitchell vs Morake
Brian Mitchell vs Beard 2

 

Came into the thread specifically to see if anyone gave a shi* about Tod Morgan. Good post.