Fighters that moved down in weight and won world titles?

Anthony Mundine was the WBA champ at 168 and somehow dropped and won the interim title at 154 And made tens of millions of dollars in the process. Amazing what the big fish in the small pond can achieve. Even though he's a grub.

Canelo won the WBC middleweight title then dropped from 155 to 154 and beat the great Liam Smith for the WBO junior middleweight title.

Mundine is really the only guy who has moved down the weights as he's advanced.

Anthony Mundine was the WBA champ at 168 and somehow dropped and won the interim title at 154

Going way back here, but..Bob Fitzsimmons.

The difficulty of returning to a lower weight is highly overrated. Mosley went from 147 to 154 and back again any time he pleased with no problem at all. He won a world title at 147 from Margarito after having been a champion at 154. Cotto won a tittle at 154 after having been a champion at 160. Mayweather won titles at 154 and then returned to 147. I am sure there have been many others who went down in weight and won world titles. It's only difficult if the boxer is naturally too big to make the weight. Lots of boxers gain a lot of weight when the don't have a fight coming up and then take all that weight off and perform well when they do have a fight. Bradley used to get fat between fights but always came to his fights in shape. It's just a matter of losing the weight slowly with a good diet and exercise. I think it was harder during the days of fight day weigh-in. Harder to win titles back then too. Carlos Ortiz winning the jr welter belt and going down to lightwt. might have been the only time a jr welter did that . Outside of Hank Armstrong winning welter then light, I don't really remember anyone else doing it before IBF came about .

The difficulty of returning to a lower weight is highly overrated. Mosley went from 147 to 154 and back again any time he pleased with no problem at all. He won a world title at 147 from Margarito after having been a champion at 154. Cotto won a tittle at 154 after having been a champion at 160. Mayweather won titles at 154 and then returned to 147. I am sure there have been many others who went down in weight and won world titles. It's only difficult if the boxer is naturally too big to make the weight. Lots of boxers gain a lot of weight when the don't have a fight coming up and then take all that weight off and perform well when they do have a fight. Bradley used to get fat between fights but always came to his fights in shape. It's just a matter of losing the weight slowly with a good diet and exercise.

Broner. Won the WBA against Paulie @ 47. Moved down to 40 and won the vacant WBA against Khabib.

Ward 178 pound Olympian to 168 Pro titles. Ray Leonard. Beat Kalule for his WBA jr middle belt. Relinguished it and beat Tommy Heanrs for his WBA welter belt. Henry Armstrong. Won welter title . Went down to 135 and won the title there. Nonito Donaire. Won WBA feather belt and lost it. Won jr feather belt for WBO. Never mind Ray Leonard winning a fake lt heavy belt without fighting there. Pancho, going by memory. And with that, where's the ignore button? bubye

Ward 178 pound Olympian to 168

Carlos Ortiz

Moving Down in weight can be harder than moving up

Bernard Hopkins comes to mind. Which fight is that? I don't see it on his record. No catch-weights please.

Thurman and Spence-154 Shawn Porter-175 Plenty of fighters..... I mistyped, I meant champion not fighter.

Having a hard time finding info. I think it's like 3 or 5 at most. Any clues people? After winning world titles at 154, Mayweather later won world titles at 147. After winning a world title at 154, Pacquiao later won world titles at 147. After winning world titles at 154, Mosley later won an interim world title at 147. After winning world titles at 147, Judah later won a world title at 140. After winning a world title at 175, Hearns later won a world title at 168. After winning a world title at 154, Leonard later won a world title at 147. After winning a world title at heavyweight, Jones later won world titles at 175. I'm sure there are countless other examples, this is just off the top of my head.

Having a hard time finding info. I think it's like 3 or 5 at most. Any clues people? Thurman and Spence-154 Shawn Porter-168 Plenty of fighters.....

Oh, and by the way ,(just in case you were inquiring) Bernard never loses to white people .

Didn't Shawn Porter have his first 12 fights or so at 160 and 154 then won his first title at 147 later on?

I'd be curious as well. It's usually a really bad idea, since most boxers that fight at a certain weight class are extremely lean and in shape at said weight, and going below that implies they'd have to lose muscle mass... Now of course, if you're a fat ass why not? :lol1:

Bernard Hopkins comes to mind.