So did Ray Leonard cheated by winning the the Light Heavyweight Belt from Lalonde at 168lbs and the Super Middleweight Belt at the same weight?
Of fcuking course, that's Exhibit A in cheating history. Though not on here from 2009-May 2013. But I've never seen SRL fans **** on another fighter for 3+ years for the same thing
A point to note: as much as I like Floyd, just about anyone else in history would, and has, been stripped of their title if they don't fight within six months or a year.
Floyd has, very bizarrely, been allowed to keep his Ring/lineal title he got from Mosley for a year and half before fighting Ortiz, then allow to hold on to it for just shy of two years without a fight at 147 before Guerrero. Between winning it from Mosley and winning the lineal title from Canelo recently, he's had just two fights there. That's two fights in three and a half years.
If you went through every lineal champ who moved up, fought and won another lineal title, but was allowed to keep his other title for nearly two years without a isn't, you'd come up with a list of one. Floyd Mayweather. Every other fighter would have been stripped long ago.
When rules change for one fighter alone, and thus gives him a reasonably unique feat, while many other fighters who have done the same thing aren't gifted with the same feat, it kind of kills it.
Floyd really didn't achieve it in the same way previous fighters have done so. He was given it and then allowed to keep it, while the other fighters earned it and had to keep earning it.
Duran wasn't allowed to keep his lineal lightweight title for nearly two years while he fought and won the lineal welterweight title, yet Floyd was.
Great achievement in itself nonetheless, but its very, very shallow historically in terms of lineal titles.
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Flo mos bigging up a Catchweight Lineal belt. What was that about cheating history?
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