J.L.Castillo is he ATG as lightweight??

[WhoreUs]

i think hes a shoo in HoFer and a borderline ATG

i think he can make the HOF eventually.

it won't be in his first few tries though.

[El Jesus]

List of notable lightweight champions:

Jack McAuliffe
Joe Gans
Battling Nelson
Ad Wolgast
Willie Ritchie
Freddie Welsh
Benny Leonard
Sammy Mandell
Tony Canzoneri
Barney Ross
Lou Ambers
Henry Armstrong
Sammy Angott
Bob Montgomery
Ike Williams
Beau Jack
Jimmy Carter
Joe Brown
Carlos Ortiz
Ismael Laguna
Ken Buchanan
Roberto Duran
Esteban DeJesus
Alexis Arguello
Edwin Rosario
Hector Camacho
Julio Cesar Chavez
Pernell Whitaker
Oscar De La Hoya
Shane Mosley
Floyd Mayweather

Castillo can be ranked above many of them based on the strength of his resume at the weight but I'm not sure where. I'd have to think about it.

What really annoys me about you is sometimes you come into a thread and say what i was going to say and post what i was going to post. Im not boxing historian, but i know the lightweight/welter/middleweight divisions pretty well, and here you come pulling a thomas edison as usual. good work.

But to answer the question, castillo is definately an all time great as far as lightweight is concerned when you consider his run in the division and how almost all his fights in his prime were close, in some cases contraversial (mayweather/casamayor). He had a great run definately.

[MELLY-MEL...]

atg? Nope. hofer...yup

[sweetpea87]

Sure but not in the top five maybe toward number 10

[The Texican]

He falls a little short in the ATG list, but at the end of the day, he was a bad mutherfarmer. Well respected, tuff SOB. El Temible, the feared one.

[Obama]

How the hell is Oscar De La Hoya in Ring Magazine's top 20 LW list and not Julio Cesar Chavez?

[MELLY-MEL...]

How the hell is Oscar De La Hoya in Ring Magazine's top 20 LW list and not Julio Cesar Chavez?

because odlh owns the ring.

[Obama]

because odlh owns the ring.

lol, true. But the list is from 2001, he didn't own it back then right?

[daggum]

lol, true. But the list is from 2001, he didn't own it back then right?

delahoya has a time machine.

[Obama]

delahoya has a time machine.