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How many fighters have held more than 1 lineal title at the same time?
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So how do you get from Michael Spinks in the mid 80's to Virgil Hill in the mid 90's? Are you saying it was vacant all that time? I am sure you could argue for the official and unofficial lineal champions in every weight class. The whole point is to get it down to 1 fighter. I am happy to go with the RING magazine rankings and I think it is laughable to cut Roy Jones Jr. out of the picture completely with this theoretical stuff.
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Originally posted by THE CONQUEROR View PostSo how do you get from Michael Spinks in the mid 80's to Virgil Hill in the mid 90's? Are you saying it was vacant all that time? I am sure you could argue for the official and unofficial lineal champions in every weight class. The whole point is to get it down to 1 fighter. I am happy to go with the RING magazine rankings and I think it is laughable to cut Roy Jones Jr. out of the picture completely with this theoretical stuff.
And it was yourself who asked about the lineage. Talking about Ring Magazine champions is a different story. They made Jones the champion strictly for commercial reasons, as Hill's claim was much greater. I think boxingscene's Cliff Rold has written an article about it.
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Nigel Collins admitted that if The Ring policy had been in place during the mid 1990s (they had stopped awarding belts in the early 90s), that Darius Michalczewski would have had The Ring belt.
DM----> Gonzalez ------> Erdei
In 2001, The Ring started awarding belts again, and one of the ways you could get a vacant title was to unify the WBA/IBF/WBC belts. Roy Jones was awarded the LHW title for unifying those 3 titles. The Ring has since eliminated that way of filling a vacancy.
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