Fighters who cleaned out.

[_original_]

Marquez had a good run at LW some years back; Diaz, Katsidis, and Casa all by stoppage. Only one he missed at the time was Campbell.

[Black Barty]

Rigo, Ward, WKlitschko but more challengers always pop up so you cant really ever completely clean out. Theres always gonna be that 1 more guy.

Rigo didn't clean out anything. He did beat the consensus best fighter at 122, but cleaning out a division means beating everyone that matters (or at least beating the guy who beat them). And Mares very much mattered at the time.

[Black Barty]

Marquez had a good run at LW some years back; Diaz, Katsidis, and Casa all by stoppage. Only one he missed at the time was Campbell.

Pretty big miss as Campbell was unified champ and beat Diaz before JMM. There was also Brandon Rios.

[DannYankee]

Rigo didn't clean out anything. He did beat the consensus best fighter at 122, but cleaning out a division means beating everyone that matters (or at least beating the guy who beat them). And Mares very much mattered at the time.

Mares had already said he was gonna move up, and fought Ponce at 126 around the same time Rigo schooled Donaire, and we all know what happened to Mares 1 more fight after that Ponce fight. So effectively Mares wasn't and as far as I know isn't a 122 pounder anymore. The question was about 1 division after all.

[Ham Porter]

Andre Ward blatantly ducked Lucian Bute, so any notion of him clearing the division out is laughable.

[Larry the boss]

Hagler,Joe Louis, Duran at lightweight, Floyd at 130, Tito at 147

[NEETzsche]

lucien bute and andre dirrell would have really completed ward's smw cv.

[M Bison]

you are wrong, the wladimir has not beat wilder, stiverne, fury, jennings, apple, chisora, ruiz, and others although i am sure he shall beat these guys after fulfilling mandated obligations but still he hasn't done it yet.

The andre ward has not beat groves, chavez, dirrel and is using the promoter conflict for a good excuse to avoid the dangerous fighters/ moving up to fight adonis, kovalev, hopkins

no fighter has cleaned out.

Wladimir has cleaned out the division during when the time-scale fitted i.e. when Deontay wasn't relevant.
Ward pretty much has aswell.

We can't really say the same about Pacquiao and Mayweather at the moment, although I'm sure If we look the Pacman when he was a lighter fighter he pretty much fought them all.

[Black Barty]

Mares had already said he was gonna move up, and fought Ponce at 126 around the same time Rigo schooled Donaire, and we all know what happened to Mares 1 more fight after that Ponce fight. So effectively Mares wasn't and as far as I know isn't a 122 pounder anymore. The question was about 1 division after all.

True, but if voicing the intention to move up means you have already moved up, then Leo Santa Cruz was already a 122 pounder when Rigo beat Donaire. And Rigo didn't beat him, either.

Btw I know it's just a technicality, and I don't think it makes Rigo less of a "true champion" at 122. I'm half nitpicking here.

[Mugwump]

Might I tentatively suggest a correlation between fighters who publicly claim to have ended competition in their division and the kind of dismal career pulling power of, say ... Andre Ward?

He may be a great fighter but what he knows about the Business of Entertainment you'd struggle to record in more than three sentences.