Lightweight landslide
 

Over the last several months I have become re-interested in the lightweight and junior lightweight divisions of the 1980s. When living it, I was always interested in the great matchups of the era, but don't think I fully appreciated what a strong time that was for the division over the course of history ... the end of Duran's domination, the Alexis Arguello and Aaron Pryor control of the JWWs, despite the presence of Mamby, Boza-Edwards, Bramble and other challengers; the Mancini-Arroyo-Haugen-Blake-Pazienza merry-go-round and so many other subplots ...

Anyway, as I went back I would see guys I could add here or there to improve my replay, and before I knew it I was compiling lists of all the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO champions and challengers; NABF, USBA, OPBF, British Commonwealth, South American, European and other champions to flesh things out in the LWs. Now I have 90 to post and I'm halfway through the JLWs ...

Long story short, I've got a bundle of guys to post here. Some have pictures I'll post in the appropriate archive strings as I can ... Anyone who has pics of these guys, please feel free to post them, and thanks in advance!

Also, I need to say that Scot's JLW string on another page of this TBCB Mods section was invaluable, although I missed a couple in my initial downloads and needlessly/unintentionally recreated them. Thanks and sorry, SAL. Take 'em for what they're worth guys ...
:)

In alphabetical order ...
 

... here are the ones I've rated so far, in groups of five, starting with Mauricio Aceves, Mark Adams, Dale Artango, Jaime "Rocky" Balboa and Oscar "Negro" Bejines.

And five more ...
 

... including Victorio Belcher, Fernando Blanco, Graeme Brooke, Charlie "White Lightning" Brown and Chris "Southern Rebel" Calvin.

The next five ...
 

... feature Amancio "Amancito" Castro, Chil-Sung Chun, Cayetano Correa, Edwin Curet and Lucio Cusma.

And these ...
 

... five more: Mario Cusson, Herminio Delgado, Remo Di Carlo, Pat Doherty and John "Super D" Duplessis.

Continuing with ...
 

... George Feeney, Nicky Furlano, Jorge Gomez, David Gonzalez and Hengky Gun.

About a third of the way ...
 

... here are Tsuyoshi Hamada, Curtis "Troubleman" Harris, Gaetan Hart, Alvin "Too Sweet" Hayes and Ernesto Herrera.

More lightweight types ...
 

... from the 1980s, including Mo Hussein, Muhammed Juhari, John Kalbhenn, Kwang-Min Kim and Michel Lalonde.

Just about ...
 

... halfway with Steve Larrimore, Geronimo Luquez, Ramon Marchena, Adolfo Medel and Tony "Mad Dog" Miller.

Do you remember ...
 

... Gonzalo Montellano, Roque "Rocky" Montoya, Tae-Jin Moon, Jorge "Kid Dynamite" Morales or Sebastian Mosquiera?

Then there's ...
 

... these guys: Frankie "Preacherman" Moultrie, Oscar Benavides "Monzon" Munoz, Ruben Munoz Jr., Charlie Nash and Young-Ho Oh.

Keeping it rolling ...
 

... into the P's with Bong-Chun Park, Ricardo "Leoncito" Peralta, Elvis Perez, Irleis "Cubanito" Perez and Sakad Petchyindee.

Three more sets ...
 

... left, including Primo "Kid Durango" Ramos, Francisco Rodriguez, Refugio Rojas, Jesus Eugenio Romero and Miguel "El Zorro" Santana.

Running out of steam ...
 

... with Alain Simoes, Juan Soberanes, Tracy Spann, Masahiro Takagi and Felipe Urguiza.

And the last wave ...
 

... of five 1980s lightweights contains Giancarlo Usai, Flash Villamer, Guy Villegas, Gary Williams and Sergio Zambrano.

Whew! Done my sharing for a while ... LOL!
;)

Great work Mark! The eighties was a great decade for boxing and this time period is sometimes underappreciated. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your work on these divisions.

great work mark

Thanks, guys.
 

Noticed a gaff last night. Hengky Gun is male, not female.

Well, back to the drawing board!

Here comes the ...
 

... second wave from the 1980s lightweights project. This batch was culled more from the junior lightweight research. Here they are, alphabetically, through the early S's, starting with Roger "Yo-Yo" Arevalo, Raymond "Ray" Armand, Faustino Martires Barrios, Claudio Bicai and Salvatore Bottiglieri.

Followed by ...
 

... the quintet of Jin-Shik Choi, Alberto Collazo, Salvatore Curcetti, Francisco Tomas "Bahia" Da Cruz and Sidnei Dal Rovere.