Welterweights vs Lightweights

[123tyson123]

Ive always prefered welterweight especially recently with mayweather,cotto and margarito in huge fights. Without a doubt the best divisions at the moment.

[boxaholic]

Well to be fair...we're gonna have to go by what has given us the better fights. So LW and Sadly, WW doesn't even come close. Too many damn fights that didn't happen at WW and isn't happening.

And Why not. Is it possible we can have a JMM vs Campbell fight in early 2009?

[warp1432]

I can give you the Guzman arguement but the Pacman arguement is a complete favoritism. What has JMM done that Many hasn't. Nate dominated Diaz. But Pacman has beat Diaz, JMM twice if not for Judge Error, MAB twice, Morales 2 out of 3, and his last fight was at 135. You now he is not going to stay at 147 thats obvious, and you know that he will not go back to 130. JMM and Campbell ahead of Pacman is farfetched. And you are 1 of the most respected people on this board I agree but you must have a thing for Pacman.

What part of "How you are supposed to rank them" do you not understand?

Pacquiao's win at 135:
-WBC titleholder David Diaz

Marquez's win at 135:
-Lineal champion Joel Casamayor

On a pound for pound list, Manny > JMM because he has a better resume, but when ranking them at lightweight, JMM has done the better work and is the lineal champ. Hence why you rank Marquez above Pacquiao at lightweight.

You also have to rank Campbell at lightweight because Juan Diaz was very highly regraded. Juan is better then David Diaz.

You don't rank Campbell above Marquez however because Marquez is the champ. He has a win over Joel Casamayor, who not only has a win over Campbell, but Casamayor was the legit champ who earned it by beating Diego Corrales.


"Twice if not for the judges error" is completely subjective too. You could argue that JMM won the first fight and you could easily argue that JMM won the second one too.

[juancho]

better fights at lightweight,welter has names but not too many are fighting each other like at lightweight