Best fighters never to be lineal champ

[zmm001]

With the retirement of international superstar Carl Froch I was just wondering who the best fighters never to be lineal champ during the complete racial intergration of the sport.

[Psylence83]

So like second best????

[-PBP-]

Roy Jones Jr

[MrRolltide91]

Roy Jones Jr

[gauze]

3 division champion and future hall of famer adrien broner
some guy erik morales

[IronDanHamza]

Roy Jones Jr

Going entirely off memory but I thought Roy Jones was Lineal at Super Middleweight?

[Deevel916]

Being lineal champ doesnt mean squat. Baldomir was the lineal champ for christ sakes.

Until boxing is structured in a way where its based on a process of elimination until the 2 best fighters in each division are squaring off for supremacy in the weight class, being crowned the "champ" holds very little weight.

[-PBP-]

Going entirely off memory but I thought Roy Jones was Lineal at Super Middleweight?

No when he beat Toney, Nunn was lineal champ who lost it to Little who lost it to Lyles

[BIPBAP]

Salvador Sánchez was never the lineal champ cause he never fought Pedroza.

Hears never won a lineal championship either. He lost against Leonard (welterweight) and Hearns (middleweight) on his two bouts where the lineal tittle was on the line.