Forgotten/Underappreciated Moves Up In Weight

[Russell]

I've always found a well past prime, almost 40 year old Nunn with all his fire gone fighting all the way up to Cruiserweight underappreciated to some degree.

He fought from MW to CW and beat great to respectable names in almost all of those divisions.

Well into his 30's he went to Germany and fought Graciano Rocchigiani to a razor thin SD loss, a fight I think I had to Graciano by a point. Not bad consider Graciano was blatantly robbed against Maske and sparked out Michalczewski.

Who else, and why?

[GPater11093]

how about Guillermo Jones starts off at WW and is now a CW champion.

[TheGreatA]

Dingaan Thobela won the WBO lightweight title in 1990 and KO'd Glenn Catley in the last round of a fight he was losing to win the WBC super middleweight title in 2000. :good

[AlFrancis]

George carpentier boxed at every weight from fly to heavyweight.

[PowerPuncher]

Holman Williams - started at LW to go all the way upto LHW
Billy Conn - LW-HW
Cerdan - most of his career was as a WW, no one remembers that
Carpentier - went from fighting for WW titles to HW titles (french/european) in 2 years.
Charles/Moore/Patterson - MW-HW

[Flea Man]

Guillermo Jones.



What about Duke McKenzie???

[PowerPuncher]

What about Duke McKenzie???

WBO titles in 3weight classes

[GPater11093]

George carpentier boxed at every weight from fly to heavyweight.

there was a british guiy who did that too cant remember the name but he went pro at 12

[AlFrancis]

there was a british guiy who did that too cant remember the name but he went pro at 12


You could be thinking about Ted Kid Lewis.

I can track him down on Boxrec as having boxed between 116 and 162 fighting for the empire lightheavyweight title. He turned pro at 15.
Incidentally he fought Carpentier as well at light heavy, Carpentier's weight that is 175.

[AlFrancis]

there was a british guiy who did that too cant remember the name but he went pro at 12

Your probably thinking of Len Harvey though, he turned pro at 12.

[turpinr]

George carpentier boxed at every weight from fly to heavyweight.

and world war one

[GPater11093]

You could be thinking about Ted Kid Lewis.

I can track him down on Boxrec as having boxed between 116 and 162 fighting for the empire lightheavyweight title. He turned pro at 15.
Incidentally he fought Carpentier as well at light heavy, Carpentier's weight that is 175.

Your probably thinking of Len Harvey though, he turned pro at 12.

yeh they both fought at every weight

[turpinr]

ted kid lewis got paid a tanner(2 1/2p) for his first fight and a penny back for a cup of coffee !! legend

[Ischbaad]

WBO titles in 3weight classes

He won an IBF belt at flyweight.

[markedwardscott]

Joe Gans went up in weight to fight the original Joe Walcott. According to the newspapers Gans won going away, but it was an official draw.

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[kolcade4]

james toney went up and down

[asero]

is it really that hard for a lower weights fighter to move up...examples here are from 135 going up...how about from 112 or 118 and moving up

[Drew101]

A lot of people talk about Armstrong, but Arizmendi had some success too when he moved up in weight.

[My dinner with Conteh]

Randy Turpin stepping up to light heavy and beating up Don Cockell.

[GPater11093]

what about Garcia moving from Welter and winning the Middleweight crown

*the Garcia who drew with Armstrong forgot his first name is it Efrain

[AlFrancis]

what about Garcia moving from Welter and winning the Middleweight crown

*the Garcia who drew with Armstrong forgot his first name is it Efrain


Ceferino

[GPater11093]

Ceferino

thats it

moved from Welter to become a MW champ

[djm]

George carpentier boxed at every weight from fly to heavyweight.

Young Stribling deserves mention in this regard.

[AlFrancis]

Mickey Walker

[Vantage_West]

Simon Brown
Aaron Davis


anyone know that Markus Bayer was a amatuer flyweight

[AlFrancis]

Jimmy Ellis started out as a small middleweight.