was jean pascal a paper champ?

[ThePrince]

No, don't know how you can make an argument for 'yes'

[crold1]

I think technically Zsolt Erdie is the lineal champ, sadly enough.

Zsolt vacated his lone tangible link to the lineage, moved up, and didn't fight at Light Heavyweight for over a year. Joe Gans vacated and had to regain the Lightweight title in the ring with barely a year between the whole thing. That standard is good enough for Zsolt. PAscal and Dawson were 1-2 when they fought, clearly. Pascal was the champ.

Hopkins IS the champ.

[daggum]

baldomir beat judah who was 1-5 against top 10 welterweights.

pascal beat dawson who is 7-1 against top 10 light heavies.

i think pascal is a little more legit.

[-Spinal-]

baldomir beat judah who was 1-5 against top 10 welterweights.

pascal beat dawson who is 7-1 against top 10 light heavies.

i think pascal is a little more legit.

Dawson was 7-1[against top 10 LHW's] entering the Pascal fight or you mean right now he's 7-1? Because Dawson was undefeated entering the Pascal fight, against top 10 LHW's, 6-0.

Harding was a top 10, Adamek, Johnson 2x, Tarver 2x, that's 6, 6-0, the Pascal fight made him 6-1, now he's 7-1 with the Diaconu win.