Greatest multi weight world champion?

[La_Vibora]

P.S. If you're curious there's fight footage of both Burley & Langford available...YouTube has one of Langford's fights (when he was prime), I believe. I also personally posted one of Burley's fight on here a few months back, and even though it was a version of Burley that was past his best, it still does give one the idea as to the style Burley used, as well as a great hint as to how good he may have been in his earlier days.

WHAT?!?!? You posted one of Burley's fight on here? Could you please repost it as I have been dying to see him fight? If I am not mistaken, it should be the rematch against Oakland Billy Smith as that was supposed to be the only fight of his on film. Please let me know if you can, I think everyone here would really appreciate that.

[LondonRingRules]

I don't care for him, but Roy starting out with a MW title, and snoozing through easy SM and LH reigns, and then skipping over the cruisers and picking apart Ruiz in a somewhat bogus fight, well, Roy had a lotta fans and boxing people going on that he was an All-all time great.

Then his ego got the best of him as he hung around too long. They don't tell me he could beat up Dempsey, Marciano, and Ali any more. That's pretty great to have gotten that far though, to be considered in that vein.

[Left2body]

If I am not mistaken Duran lost to Benitez at JrWW.

Nope he lost to Benitez at jrMW. But later went on to be a 2 time middleweight champion. Well his Barkley win was his real middleweight championship. Remember this is at age 38 after a career filled with 15 round championship fights that is extremly hard on the body.

[+= El Jefe=+]

Sugar Ray Robinson....

[QueensburyRules]

OK, I can see you chaps want to limit yourselves. I've never seen Joe Calzaghe fight, so no conclusions can be drawn as to his merit according to y'all.

So instead we'll get some modern know nothing who insists that Floyd or Roy is the best ever without any basis in fact or history.

Yeah, no film footage exists of the Civil War, so we don't really know how horrible it was. No film footage = no history in the new world order.

Sho'nuff Hoss!

- -Heh, heh, this was 14 yrs ago a few years after Manny became the first flyweight champ to win a feather title while he was just warming up.

Manny the obvious answer today.

[Rusty Tromboni]

- -Heh, heh, this was 14 yrs ago a few years after Manny became the first flyweight champ to win a feather title while he was just warming up.

Manny the obvious answer today.

When did Floyd get KO'd?

McGovern essentially won 3 of the original 6 (Bantamweight was the minimum weight class then, and Light Heavyweight didn't exist) in about 3 years.

Harada was robbed against Famechon. So lik McGovern he SHOULD be a 3-Division champion across the lowest three divisions. And again, like McGovern that's unified CHAMPION, not title holder. Of course, McGovern and Harada actually beat ATG opponents to achieve the feat.

McKarnin beat LaBarba to win the Pacific Flyweight title (as good as any alphabet soup title today) and was the lineal Welterweight champion - by KO'ing the legendary Corbet 3 in a single round, no less.

Fitzsimmons is a man whom I'd hope needs no introduction - beat Dempsey for his first belt; and jumped from Middleweight to Heavyweight, since the LHw division didn't exist.

For what it's worth, Canzoneri probably is my pick for greatest multi-division champion, even if they were junior weight divisions, because of how stellar his competition was.

[drablj]

^ you mean mclarnin, not mcfarland. fantastic fighter.

[HOUDINI563]

Armstrong would be the guy.

More modern multi weight champions benefitted by their being so many fighters called a champion! In reality many of these fighters never should have held a championship. In prior years they would have only been a contender but in a world of 4-5 champions per division they can call themselves a champion.

I comparison Armstrong held three true world division championships at a time when there were 8-9 divisions in total with one champion per. No one will ever duplicated this achievement.

[Rusty Tromboni]

^ you mean mclarnin, not mcfarland. fantastic fighter.

Thanks man.

[Rusty Tromboni]

Armstrong would be the guy.

More modern multi weight champions benefitted by their being so many fighters called a champion! In reality many of these fighters never should have held a championship. In prior years they would have only been a contender but in a world of 4-5 champions per division they can call themselves a champion.

I comparison Armstrong held three true world division championships at a time when there were 8-9 divisions in total with one champion per. No one will ever duplicated this achievement.

Quick! Name 5 fighters Armstrong defended his Welterweight title against!

Don't cheat!

Should be easy with all those defenses he had....


Research Armstrong a little better before picking him.

For starters, investigate how McLarnin and Canzoneri faired against Ambers.

There's a whole world of information out there. And it's eadier than ever to seek out.