Comments Thread For: the End of a Line: A Light Heavy Addendum

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Cliff Rold - In a column yesterday, the abdication of the lineal flyweight crown by Roman Gonzalez, and the 41-plus year history of that line, was carefully examined. It is the end of the longest standing consecutive lineage in boxing. Noted towards the end of the piece, that leaves the longest standing lineage in boxing today at middleweight...
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[Boxing Logic]

Lineage is meaningless in the age of separate leagues and ducking. Canelo is only the middleweight lineal because Sergio viewed Cotto as an easier fight. Cotto got the opportunity, and took the lineal title, but it's obvious if GGG had gotten that opportunity, he would have won instead.

Lineal titles are now decided by who is the easiest opponent for a champion to face, and then he loses, rather than who is the best opponent. So in theory it should be important, but as long as the boxing matchmaking doesn't function correctly, then neither does the lineal situation, so it loses meaning.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Andre Ward lineal champ will do for me.

[nycsmooth]

Not in this generation but Bob Foster would have cleaned them all up, Mike Spinks 2...

[siablo14]

By Cliff Rold - In a column yesterday, the abdication of the lineal flyweight crown by Roman Gonzalez, and the 41-plus year history of that line, was carefully examined. It is the end of the longest standing consecutive lineage in boxing. Noted towards the end of the piece, that leaves the longest standing lineage in boxing today at middleweight...
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Tell Cliff Rold that it is "couldn't care less" not "could care less."

[TexasCowBoy]

Great Article

[Pigeons]

Erdei's abdication of the light heavyweight throne was not because of his one-fight foray at cruiserweight, it's because he retired in 2010 ().

Fighting one fight in a different weight class does not abdicate a lineage (see Canelo Alvarez, Middleweight), but a retirement, no matter how short, does (see Manny Pacquiao, Welterweight).