Lightweight Champions who became Middleweight Champions

[gilgamesh]

I was just thinking. With the Terence Crawford vs Canelo Alvarez fight fast approaching. I started racking my brain trying to come up with Lightweight Champions who have also won a Title at Middleweight, and that list is very short indeed.

As far as I know the only one to have been a Lightweight Champion and Middleweight Champion is Roberto Duran.

So if Crawford is able to get by Canelo Alvarez he will be in very, very rare company.

[gilgamesh]

Oscar De La Hoya I know picked up a belt at 135, and also got the WBO belt with a "win" over Felix Sturm.

So he technically did, just not the least bit impressively...at least with the Middleweight portion of it.

[elmersalsa]

Roberto Duran is the only lightweight champion to become middleweight champion. That alone is one of the greatest feats in boxing history.

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

- Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Canelo is the 168 lb champ in what would've been the 185+lb Hvy Champ in Marv's day, Canelo's approximate ring weight.

Don't think much of this Craw fight that seems to have been a creation solely of Turki and his Billion$. At least Craw will go down fighting. Upset chances barring unknown injuries are slim and none.