Pictured: Vasyl Lomachenko

The junior lightweight division was a hotbed of impactful activity last year. It gave us 2016's Fight Of The Year, the 12-round draw between Francisco Vargas and Orlando Salido, Jezreel Corrales' two victories over Takashi Uchiyama, and Vasyl Lomachenko's wins over Roman "Rocky" Martinez and Nicholas Walters.

In the tenth part of TTR's review of last year, the 2016 records of the seven fighters mentioned above as well as the six other fighters ranked by TTR as the contenders for the vacant lineal junior lightweight title are examined.

World Champion: Vacant

1. Francisco Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs)
- 6/4- Orlando Salido.....Draw 12

2. Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KOs; 13-1, 5 KOs including WSB bouts)
- 6/11- Roman "Rocky" Martinez.....W KO 5
(won WBO junior lightweight title)
- 6/13- vacated WBO featherweight title
- 11/26- Nicholas Walters.....W TKO 7
(retained WBO junior lightweight title)

3. Jezreel Corrales (21-1, 1 NC, 8 KOs)
- 4/27- Takashi Uchiyama.....W KO 2
(won WBA Super title)
- 12/31- Takashi Uchiyama.....W SD 12
(retained WBA Super title)

4. Takashi Uchiyama (24-2-1, 20 KOs)
- 4/27- Jezreel Corrales.....L KO 2
(lost WBA Super title)
- 12/31- Jezreel Corrales.....L SD 12
(for WBA Super title)

5. Takashi Miura (30-3-2, 23 KOs)
- 5/7- Jimmy Borbon.....W KO 1

6. Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 1 ND, 30 KOs)
- 6/4- Francisco Vargas.....Draw 12
(for WBC title)

7. Jason Sosa (20-1-4, 15 KOs)
- 6/24- Javier Fortuna.....W TKO 11
(won WBA title)
- 11/12- Stephen Smith.....W UD 12
(retained WBA title)

8. Nicholas Walters (26-1-1, 21 KOs)
- 11/26- Vasyl Lomachenko.....L TKO 7
(for WBO title)

9. Jose Pedraza (22-0, 12 KOs)
- 4/16- Stephen Smith.....W UD 12
(retained IBF title)

10. Miguel Berchelt (30-1, 27 KOs)
- 3/12- George Jupp.....W TKO 6
(won vacant WBO Interim title)
- 7/16- Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (birth name: Suriya Tatakhun).....W KO 4
(retained WBO Interim title)
- 12/10- Vacated WBO Interim title

11. Roman "Rocky" Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs)
- 6/11- Vasyl Lomachenko.....L KO 5
(lost WBO title)

12. Miguel "Mickey" Roman (56-11, 43 KOs)
- 1/30- Yogli Herrera.....W TKO 4
- 4/1- Juli Giner.....W TKO 8
- 7/9- Jerope Mercado.....W TKO 3

13. Javier Fortuna (31-1-1, 1 NC, 22 KOs)
- 6/24- Jason Sosa.....L TKO 11
(lost WBA title)
- 9/23- Marlyn Cabrera.....W TKO 2
- 11/12- Omar Douglas.....W UD 10