Trivia: Flyweight champ "beats" heavyweight champ

[Bundana]

Who can come up with the shortest route, that has a flyweight champion "beating" (you know: A beats B, who beats C... etc.) a heavyweight champion?

[Willow The Wisp]

I'll kick it off so folks won't be shy to jump in:

Ken Norton <
Jose Luis Garcia <

< Pone Kingpetch

[kara]

I remember some made one of these a few years ago, I forget the path, but they did it from 105 to heavyweight.

[Slugfester]

Does every participant in between have to be a champion or former champion?

[Slugfester]

Four links best I can do.


Johnson<<Choinsky<<Walcott<<Kid Lavinge<<Frank Erne

[Bundana]

Four links best I can do.


Johnson<<Choinsky<<Walcott<<Kid Lavinge<<Frank Erne

I think, you're missing a flyweight champion here!


Also... no, the participants in the chain don't all have to be world champions. Of course the first and last name in the chain must be world champions (at FLY and HW, respectively) - but those in between can be anybody!

[Slugfester]

Sorry about the missing flyweight. My hasty reading of your title thought it saw featherweight there. I don't even know if the flyweight division existed in the era I was drawing from. I wasn't even sure if featherweight did until I looked it up. Oh well, I didn't win the cigar this time.

[Slugfester]

This is as much as I can get out of the era I was in. Flyweight division came about in1909. Before that, anyone weighing under bantamweight was still considered a bantamweight. McGovern was a bantamweight champ first. It is conceivable that someone who beat McGovern was flyweight sized, but that still wouldn't win a cigar, and Terry wasn't in the habit of losing much anyway. I don't know, maybe I do win the cigar. I will know more after I obtain counsel.

Johnson<<Choinsky<<Walcott<<Kid Lavinge<<Frank Erne<<McGovern

[Slugfester]

Who can come up with the shortest route, that has a flyweight champion "beating" (you know: A beats B, who beats C... etc.) a heavyweight champion?

Do you plan on showing the winning line?

[Bundana]

Do you plan on showing the winning line?

The shortest known line is:
Fighting Harada > Eder Jofre > Vicente Saldivar > Ismael Laguna > Carlos Ortiz > Duilio Loi > Chris Christensen > Billy Graham > Joey Giardello > Rubin Carter > Jimmy Ellis


... or is it??