But it is over the Light Welterweight limit, meaning it is not a Light Welterweight fight. It is a Welterweight fight. If he was a defending champion and 140.6 is the lowest he could get he would be stripped. What part of this don't you get? Where do we draw the line? 140.7?, 140.9? 145? If we did, they would be classed as the Jr Welterweight limits. They are not. 140.0 is the Jr welterweight limit
He wouldnt be stripped, because he would shed that .6th of a pound... he wasnt dry at all... thats not what your getting, when he fights for a world title he would be right at 140 on the dot...
Yes, but I'm saying if you fight at 140.6 you will be stripped of the title. He fought at 140.6 thus was over the Jr Welterweight limit, thus was not a Jr Welterweight fight.
Crawford Broner Peterson The 31 year old Postol Vargas Herrera Face first Provodnikov Eye socket Matthysse Track star Algeri khabib allak
1. T. Crawford 2. L. Peterson 3. V. Postol 4. A. Broner 5. L. Matthysse 6. J. Vargas 7. C. Algieri 8. R. Provodnikov 9. C. Cuenca 10.M. Herrera 11. D. Jean 12. K.Allakhverdiev 13. H. Soto
Postol beat Lucas, Aydin, and Lundy, the later of whom lost on a SD to Crawford's only win at the weight (Dulorme) and on a MD to Raymondo Beltran who is one of Crawford's biggest scalps. He obviously stopped Lucas and Aydin too, inflicting the first stoppage loses of their careers on them, which is much more impressive than Crawford beating hype job Dulorme who was knocked out by Abregu. I think the Ricky Burns win for Crawford is overplayed. Burns was coming off a robbery win over Beltran and in his fight prior to that he was well on his way to losing to Jose Gonzalez before the later pulled out with a hand/wrist injury. Burns would also go on to lose his next fight after facing Crawford. Too much is made of Crawford's win over Gamboa too. Gamboa was in against a freaking blown up featherweight/super feather who was known to be glassy jawed down in his own weight category and he was facing an absolutely massive lightweight in Crawford who could easily fight up at 147 never mind at 140. Crawford weighed 153 for the Beltran fight and that was down at lightweight, by way of contrast Matthysse who is a full fledged career LWW weighed 151 for Postol, the later of whom was 148. Crawford was only 1lb lighter for the Gamboa fight, everyone would claim it was a farcical mismatch in terms of size had Matthysse and Gamboa fought each other.
Well if Khan has one then journeyman Maidana offered irrefutable proof that Broner does to in their fights. :nod
Imagine if Golovkin was an arrogant Black American with a glass manidble, a criminal record and a love of beating women. Blizzy would SWING off his nuts! :good
Thanks for posting this comment. I agree with the notion of fighters earning their rankings in a given weight class. As a part-timer here, it's important to know that about your posts. IMO, also, Crawford is easily the best fighter at the weight... for that reason he also may be avoided at a high level (at that weight) and have somewhat fewer fights there than we would like to see.