The Top 20 Junior Featherweights of All-Time

[bigdaddysback]

I loved it when Barrera said about Morales - "I only need to worry about his right hand". Morales beat Junior Jones and Barrera didn't thats the thing that stands out. And obviously Morales beat PAC and Barrera didn't.

[Boxeo_Boricua]

Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gomez, the BEST Puertorican fighter of ALL time! Period.

[krazyx19]

Where's Larios or Pintor?

[crold1]

Can't argue with the first 6. Gomez is the gold standard of this division and probably always will be.
Ji-Won Kim is a huge reach at #7. The two "champions" he beat, Berna and Sung In-Suh, were C-level fighters who were put into the first IBF title fight and they beat each other in two fights before losing to Kim (Berna was coming off a brutal second-round knockout loss to Jaime Garza for the WBA title). Kim's most significant win was over longtime contender Ruben Dario Palacious in Korea.
Zaragoza, on the other hand, should be in the top 10. He fought 19 fights against champions, finishing with a 10-6-3 record against them

Can't disagree on Kim and the result surprised me. It's an anomalous result the likes of which numbers produce and, hey, if it gets him and his fights looked up fine by me. Fun dude to watch.

It's funny how everyone has pooh poohed the lists Cliff has done in divisions containing a relative dearth of great talent, but when he does a list in a division brimming with great talent, everyone says it's a good list. Seems to me that shows the statistical method he's using is fundamentally sound, but that like all statistical methods, it gives the best results when there is a lot of data (in this case by "data" I mean a lot of great fighters at the weight - and a lot of fighters who stayed at the weight for a significant time, rather than just passing through for a couple of fights on their way up).

I found that to be the case as well. I amiagine things will get dicey by Straw.

Where's Larios or Pintor?

Pintor really didn't do much at 22; his class was 18. Larios's KO loss to Agapito Sanchez made a big difference for him when added to the other losses in class. He fell just short. It's a DEEP division.