Your Top 6 ATG Lightweight Champion Matchups?

[Ivich]

lol. Guilty. But, Are we sure Blackburn didn't grab some WBU belt in Philly, November 2, 1903? IBF maybe?

He might have got a belt for drinking the most.

[Willie Pep 229]

If you told me I would be betting on a LW Title Fight (Fantasy), I would ask, who is Duran fighting? because I would bet on Roberto Duran.

So, wanting to know if I was correct I want to see these sixe fights (in no particular order).

Duran - B.Lenorad
Duran - I. Williams
Duran - T. Canzoneri
Duran - L. Ambers
Duran - F. Welsh
Duran - C. Ortiz or J. C. Chavez (sorry for the ambivalence.)

I left out Joe Gans, Packey McFarlen, Battling Nelson because I believe the pre-1920 style of boxing just wouldn't work in a post 1920 universe.

E. g. What little footage I have seen of Joe Gans leaves unable to envision a match-up with a great 'modern' LW. A personal bias I guess, or more, a personal inability to visualize the event.

I left out Whitaker because he was disrespectful to his opponents, while in the ring, fighting them. I don't mind pre-fight trash talk, it sells tickets. But once in the ring, there should be mutal respect. I tolerate nothing less. He is persona non grata to me.

Plus he was often boring.

[Willow The Wisp]

If you told me I would be betting on a LW Title Fight (Fantasy), I would ask, who is Duran fighting? because I would bet on Roberto Duran.

So, wanting to know if I was correct I want to see these sixe fights (in no particular order).

Duran - B.Lenorad
Duran - I. Williams
Duran - T. Canzoneri
Duran - L. Ambers
Duran - F. Welsh
Duran - C. Ortiz or J. C. Chavez (sorry for the ambivalence.)

I left out Joe Gans, Packey McFarlen, Battling Nelson because I believe the pre-1920 style of boxing just wouldn't work in a post 1920 universe.

E. g. What little footage I have seen of Joe Gans leaves unable to envision a match-up with a great 'modern' LW. A personal bias I guess, or more, a personal inability to visualize the event.

I left out Whitaker because he was disrespectful to his opponents, while in the ring, fighting them. I don't mind pre-fight trash talk, it sells tickets. But once in the ring, there should be mutal respect. I tolerate nothing less. He is persona non grata to me.

Plus he was often boring.

Whitaker was fairly distant, sometimes disinterested in person. Not to speak ill of the dead.