Name The Fighters In Boxing History That Moved Up A Weight Class & Fought & Beat A Prime Elite Fighter Their 1ST Fight At The Weight

[IronDanHamza]

Duran v Leoanard 1

Duran jumped over 140 from 135 to 147 and beat the great sugar Ray.

Roberto Duran had plenty of fights at Welterweight before he fought Leonard.

Including a win over Carlos Palomino.

[TreyShaw]

Roberto Duran had plenty of fights at Welterweight before he fought Leonard.

Including a win over Carlos Palomino.

Damn really

My memory has failed me once again.

[IronDanHamza]

Damn really

My memory has failed me once again.

Think he had like 6 fights at Welterweight before Leonard. Something like that.

Handful at Jr Middleweight aswell before Leonard.

[BodyBagz]

The words ''beat'' and ''elite'' make this a difficult question

Just because a guy happens to be a champ (as ''elite'' as it gets) in a div doesn't make him ''elite''.
The sport is littered with one-n-don'ers. Accidental champs.

[Roadblock]

Floyd fighting Oscar 154

[Babadoux]

Trinidad vs Joppy

[gauze]

i was thinking michael spinks vs larry holmes, but spinks had weighed in at 180 in november of 1979...like 2 weeks before the cruiserweight division was started

[The plunger man]

Nah, Leonard's first fight at 160 was vs Fernand Marcotte in 1979.

No leonard weighed a 149 which was below the light middleweight limit of 154lbs....Marcotte weighed 155 not leonard and you should read the right weights on box rec not the opponents lol
Leonard was also 153 when facing Marcos Geraldo while Geraldo was 160.
are you gonna apologise for trying to argue with an expert knowledge of leonard and the other 3 kings Ironman ?

[BigDramaShow!]

One fighter must be moving up, the other has to be established at the weight.

It's ok if udk, you don't have to comment.

Golovkin vs Steve Rolls at 164.

[IronDanHamza]

No leonard weighed a 149 which was below the light middleweight limit of 154lbs....Marcotte weighed 155 not leonard and you should read the right weights on box rec not the opponents lol
Leonard was also 153 when facing Marcos Geraldo while Geraldo was 160.
are you gonna apologise for trying to argue with an expert knowledge of leonard and the other 3 kings Ironman ?

Leonard weighed 149.

But the fight was at Middleweight, as was his fight with Geraldo. They were both Middleweight fights.

Just because Leonard weighed in under the limit doesn't change them being Middleweight bouts.