Who is the current linear LHW champion?

[Hitman932]

Darius was never a lineal Champ..........the guy never even left his turf.



Believe me, you're the fool.

You have a lot to learn, I'll leave it at that.

I have facts, you have uninformed opinions.

[Chups]

This is accurate

Antonio Tarver held the lineal belt, lost it to Hopkins then lost it to Joe.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Antonio Tarver held the lineal belt, lost it to Hopkins then lost it to Joe.

And Tarver won it from who?

[Chups]

You have a lot to learn, I'll leave it at that.

I have facts, you have uninformed opinions.

LOL!! OK. I'm pretty confident you are wrong.

[Chups]

And Tarver won it from who?

When he fought and won against Roy Jones Junior.

[KnockoutTheFat]

I'll clear this up.

In 1996 The #1 and the #2 LHW's deemed by ring magazine squared off to unify the WBA and IBF titles. Their names: Virgil Hill and Henry Maske. Chups' argument seems to imply that the #1 and #2 fighters in Ring Magazine have to face off in order to become the linear champion. Well that happened. Hill won so he should become the ring champ right? Well that would've been the case, but they didn't award belts that time. From 1991-2001, the Ring stopped awarding belts. What ensued next was this:

Hill < DM < J.C. Gonzalez < Erdei

As much as you don't like Erdei, he beat the guy who beat the guy, etc.

RJJ, however, won a interim title against Mike McCallum so he never actually beat the WBC LHW titlist. When DM beat Hill he held 3 belts, the WBA IBF WBO. But he vacated the WBA and IBF (for what reason I don't know, but that's another story altogether). So RJJ just picked up the belts left behind from DM and the Ring Magazine just awarded him their belt.

[Ray Ray]

Who made Tarver was the man?

Tarver beat Jones but then lost to Johnson.

If anything, Chad Dawson is the lineal champ for beating Johnson.

He also rematched Johnson and beat him 2/3.

[Hitman932]

I'll clear this up.

In 1996 The #1 and the #2 LHW's deemed by ring magazine squared off to unify the WBA and IBF titles. Their names: Virgil Hill and Henry Maske. Chups' argument seems to imply that the #1 and #2 fighters in Ring Magazine have to face off in order to become the linear champion. Well that happened. Hill won so he should become the ring champ right? Well that would've been the case, but they didn't award belts that time. From 1991-2001, the Ring stopped awarding belts. What ensued next was this:

Hill < DM < J.C. Gonzalez < Erdei

As much as you don't like Erdei, he beat the guy who beat the guy, etc.

RJJ, however, won a interim title against Mike McCallum so he never actually beat the WBC LHW titlist. When DM beat Hill he held 3 belts, the WBA IBF WBO. But he vacated the WBA and IBF (for what reason I don't know, but that's another story altogether). So RJJ just picked up the belts left behind from DM and the Ring Magazine just awarded him their belt.

I pretty much went over all of this already and was called an idiot for being so right.

It hurts to be so right. Again.

[Hitman932]

When he fought and won against Roy Jones Junior.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAA


I can't believe I even argued about something so simple with someone so simple.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

When he fought and won against Roy Jones Junior.

Roy Jones was never lineal champ. He was handed the Ring Belt. The Ring even admit they ****ed up.

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