Fighters who cleaned out.

no he didn't beat the ibf bute, that's called nearly cleaning out a division. im talking about everybody who is currently a champion at 168. wbc-bika ibf/wba-froch wbo-abraham plus Kessler who do you wanna see him fight at 168? he already beat them all

it's hard to clean out a division when up and comers are on the rise all the time the fans will always find a new guy to hype. you'd have do pull off a mike tyson but do it at the top and fight 12 world contenders/champions a year thats the only way its happening

You can't clean out a division while there are other champions at you weight. No one has been that dominant in years.

you are wrong, the wladimir has not beat wilder, stiverne, fury, jennings, apple, chisora, ruiz, and others although i am sure he shall beat these guys after fulfilling mandated obligations but still he hasn't done it yet. The andre ward has not beat groves, chavez, dirrel and is using the promoter conflict for a good excuse to avoid the dangerous fighters/ moving up to fight adonis, kovalev, hopkins no fighter has cleaned out. ward beat every champion at 168. that's called cleaning out a division

Might I tentatively suggest a correlation between fighters who publicly claim to have ended competition in their division and the kind of dismal career pulling power of, say ... Andre Ward? He may be a great fighter but what he knows about the Business of Entertainment you'd struggle to record in more than three sentences.

Mares had already said he was gonna move up, and fought Ponce at 126 around the same time Rigo schooled Donaire, and we all know what happened to Mares 1 more fight after that Ponce fight. So effectively Mares wasn't and as far as I know isn't a 122 pounder anymore. The question was about 1 division after all. True, but if voicing the intention to move up means you have already moved up, then Leo Santa Cruz was already a 122 pounder when Rigo beat Donaire. And Rigo didn't beat him, either. Btw I know it's just a technicality, and I don't think it makes Rigo less of a "true champion" at 122. I'm half nitpicking here.

you are wrong, the wladimir has not beat wilder, stiverne, fury, jennings, apple, chisora, ruiz, and others although i am sure he shall beat these guys after fulfilling mandated obligations but still he hasn't done it yet. The andre ward has not beat groves, chavez, dirrel and is using the promoter conflict for a good excuse to avoid the dangerous fighters/ moving up to fight adonis, kovalev, hopkins no fighter has cleaned out. Wladimir has cleaned out the division during when the time-scale fitted i.e. when Deontay wasn't relevant. Ward pretty much has aswell. We can't really say the same about Pacquiao and Mayweather at the moment, although I'm sure If we look the Pacman when he was a lighter fighter he pretty much fought them all.

lucien bute and andre dirrell would have really completed ward's smw cv.

Hagler,Joe Louis, Duran at lightweight, Floyd at 130, Tito at 147

Andre Ward blatantly ducked Lucian Bute, so any notion of him clearing the division out is laughable.

Rigo didn't clean out anything. He did beat the consensus best fighter at 122, but cleaning out a division means beating everyone that matters (or at least beating the guy who beat them). And Mares very much mattered at the time. Mares had already said he was gonna move up, and fought Ponce at 126 around the same time Rigo schooled Donaire, and we all know what happened to Mares 1 more fight after that Ponce fight. So effectively Mares wasn't and as far as I know isn't a 122 pounder anymore. The question was about 1 division after all.

Marquez had a good run at LW some years back; Diaz, Katsidis, and Casa all by stoppage. Only one he missed at the time was Campbell. Pretty big miss as Campbell was unified champ and beat Diaz before JMM. There was also Brandon Rios.

Rigo, Ward, WKlitschko but more challengers always pop up so you cant really ever completely clean out. Theres always gonna be that 1 more guy. Rigo didn't clean out anything. He did beat the consensus best fighter at 122, but cleaning out a division means beating everyone that matters (or at least beating the guy who beat them). And Mares very much mattered at the time.

Marquez had a good run at LW some years back; Diaz, Katsidis, and Casa all by stoppage. Only one he missed at the time was Campbell.

theres no way a fighter can clean out his division. fighters are moving up and down every time.

Rigo, Ward, WKlitschko but more challengers always pop up so you cant really ever completely clean out. Theres always gonna be that 1 more guy.

Does Tsyzu count?

Kostya Tsyzu?

How about the opponents going on to be great? One example of that would be Froch after getting dominated by Ward. He went on to beat Groves, Bute, and Kessler.

you are wrong, the wladimir has not beat wilder, stiverne, fury, jennings, apple, chisora, ruiz, and others although i am sure he shall beat these guys after fulfilling mandated obligations but still he hasn't done it yet. The andre ward has not beat groves, chavez, dirrel and is using the promoter conflict for a good excuse to avoid the dangerous fighters/ moving up to fight adonis, kovalev, hopkins no fighter has cleaned out. You are nitpicking, man. By your logic no one even cleaned out any division. There are always new contenders. Groves and Jr. emerged after Ward had cleaned out the SMW division. As for Dirrell, he beat the guy who beat the guy (and no, Froch vs Dirrell was no robbery) and one-upped Dirrell vs Abraham. That has to be good enough, no one fights literally everyone. And what does not wanting to fight the best 175 pounders have to do with whether he cleaned out the 168 division or not? Wlad's situation is a little trickier because he had to share the few worthy HW challengers with his brother. Between them they did beat everyone that mattered: Byrd, Brock, Brewster, Haye, Chagaev, Chambers, Pov, Adamek, Arreola, Gomez. They didn't fight Valuev and Ruiz, but again, Wlad beat the guy who beat these to (Haye). The contenders you listed emerged later. To answer OP's question: maybe Darchinyan at 115. He beat Kirilov, Mijares (P4P player at the time), Arce and a couple of other decent guys. He didn't fight Montiel though.