Top Ten WBC Cruiserweight Champions of all-time

[margaret thatcher]

Gomez's cruiserweight title wins, good volume but low on quality. I think he is top 10 though.

Marcelo Dominguez
Guy Waters
Alexey Ilyin
Rodney Gordon
Bruce Scott
Napoleon Tagoe
Mohamed Siluvangi
Imamu Mayfield
Jorge Castro
Pietro Aurino

[margaret thatcher]

How about top 10 for last decade? Just saw an article on it https://tss.ib.tv/boxing/featured-boxin ... -2010-2019

They have

10. Afolabi
9. Wlod
8. Dortmund
7. Glowacki
6. Briedis
5. Y Hernandez
4. Lebby
3. Huck
2. Gas
1. Ussy

[DrDuke]

Maybe because the cruisers were nearly dead for long time? Gomez' resume is much worse, than anyone's from the list, despite having a prolonged reign. What's value in that reign? He faced much lower level of opposition. By the way, I became a boxing fan in the mid 2000s indeed, but here it's pure coincidence.

I don’t want to sound argumentative, but I have to disagree with your response.

Do you honestly believe that Juan Carlos Gomez has a vastly inferior resume than every single one the names you've listed, or will you concede that your knowledge of the cruiserweight division prior to the mid-2000’s is negligible?

Put it this way, here’s a summary of Juan Carlos Gomez’s career highlights

• Compiled an amateur Record: 158-12
• Gold medallist at the World Junior Championships and Cuban Nationals
• Thirteen of his opponents had previously fought for other versions of world titles
• James Toney declined a title shot at Juan Carlos Gomez's WBC world cruiserweight title, despite being the mandatory challenger
• Faced six world champions and defeated five of them (Marcelo Fabian Dominguez, Imamu Mayfield, Jorge Castro, Alfred Cole, Oliver McCall & Vitali Klitschko)
• Had compiled a professional record of 44-1 immediately prior to his failed attempt at Vitali Klitschko’s WBC world heavyweight title
• Emerged victorious in all ten of his WBC world cruiserweight title fights, during a title regin that spanned four years
• The first sixteen years of Juan Carlos Gomez's 49-2 (eleven world title bouts) professional career was absolutely outstanding!
• Considered by the WBC as their third greatest ever world cruiserweight champion

If you’re unimpressed with the above accomplishments and adamantly believe your claim to be true, then can you please explain your reasoning?

The WBC world cruiserweight title has existed since 1979 and only 22 men have ever held it, so on earth can you fail to include Juan Carlos Gomez amongst the WBC's all-time top-ten titleholders list?

Some of your facts are irrelevant and misleading. For example, what for we need amateur accomplishments here? Toney didn't fight him and so what? If they fought, it would be possible to make some conclusions, in other case it's absolutely irrelevant. Champions he defeated weren't great. And how was McCall win good? McCall was ancient by that moment. And Gomez' beautiful 44-1 record helped him so much in Klitschko fight...

Gomez was a good boxer for sure. He had solid fundamentals and skills, he could use his size, but he competed in a comparably weak era.