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2017-01-07
2016 IN REVIEW- The Featherweights
Pictured: Carl Frampton

Carl Frampton moved up from the junior featherweight division and dethroned WBA Super champion Leo Santa Cruz to take over as TTR's #1 contender for the vacant lineal featherweight title. Part 11 of TTR's review of 2016 focuses on Frampton, Santa Cruz, and the eleven other TTR-ranked featherweight contenders.

World Champion: Vacant

1. Carl Frampton (23-0, 14 KOs)
- 2/27- Scott Quigg.....W SD 12
(retained IBF junior featherweight title; won WBA super bantamweight title)
- April 2016- stripped of WBA super bantamweight title
- May 2016- vacated IBF junior featherweight title
- 7/30- Leo Santa Cruz.....W MD 12
(won WBA featherweight Super title)

2. Gary Russell, Jr. (27-1, 16 KOs)
- 4/16- Patrick Hyland.....W TKO 2
(retained WBC title)

3. Leo Santa Cruz (32-1-1, 18 KOs)
- 2/27- Kiko Martinez.....W TKO 5
(retained WBA Super title)
- 7/30- Carl Frampton.....L MD 12
(lost WBA Super title)

4. Abner Mares (30-2-1, 15 KOs)
- 12/10- Jesus Cuellar.....W SD 12
(won WBA title)

5. Lee Selby (23-1, 8 KOs)
- 4/9- Eric Hunter..... W UD 12
(retained IBF title)

6. Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19 KOs)
- 4/9- Evgeny Gradovich.....W TKO 4
- 7/23- Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda.....W TKO 2
(won vacant WBO title)
- 11/5- Hiroshige Osawa.....W TKO 7
(retained WBO title)

7. Simpiwe Vetyeka (29-3, 17 KOs)
- 4/22- Tsuyoshi Tamada.....W UD 10

8. Jesus Cuellar (28-2, 21 KOs)
- 12/10- Abner Mares.....L SD 12
(lost WBA title)

9. Jorge Lara (28-0-2, 20 KOs)
- 4/30- Fernando Montiel.....W KO 1

10. Joseph Diaz, Jr. (23-0, 13 KOs; 24-1, 13 KOs including WSB bouts)
- 3/26- Jayson Velez.....W UD 10
- 7/30- Victor Proa.....W KO 2
- 9/17- Andrew Cancio.....W TKO 9
- Horacio Garcia.....W UD 10

11. Scott Quigg (32-1-2, 24 KOs)
- 2/27- Carl Frampton.....L SD 12
(lost WBA super bantamweight title; for IBF junior featherweight title)
- 12/10- Jose Cayetano.....W TKO 9

12. Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 KOs)
- 3/5- Robinson Castellanos.....W KO 7

13. Josh Warrington (24-0, 5 KOs)
- 4/16- Hisashi Amagasa.....W UD 12
- 7/30- Patrick Hyland.....W TKO 9
 
Article By: Ken Pollitt