Question: Willis 'Shorty' Hogue was a boxer in California during the 1940s, along with which American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time?

Context articles: Shorty Hogue
Guy Waters
Bob Foster (boxer)
NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship
Gillberg (wrestler)
Crawford Ashley
Umar Salamov
George Gardiner (boxer)
Tommy Loughran
Archie Moore

Willis 'Shorty' Hogue was a boxer in California during the 1940s, along with Lloyd Marshall, Charley Burley, Jack Chase (Young Joe Louis), Archie Moore and Eddie Booker.
 He had a twin brother, Willard, known as "Big Boy" Hogue, who also boxed in this era.
 No complete record exists for either brother, but Shorty Hogue was once ranked #3 at middleweight by Ring magazine.
 He scored three wins over Archie Moore and beat Jack Chase, Johnny "Bandit" Romero and Eddie Booker.
 His win over Booker earned him the California Middleweight Championship.
 Around this time, the World Championships were frozen by World War II, and most of the best middleweights of the era fought over the California title.
 Charley Burley stopped Hogue in 1942, and after that, Hogue's career hit the doldrums.
 Most of Hogue's bouts after this were knockout losses, including one to Eddie Booker, in which he lost the California Middleweight Championship.
 There is no record of his career outside of the years 1939 to 1942, but in those three years, he went 55-1.
 His only loss was to his cousin, Kole, whose record was an amazing 89-0.
Guy "Arc Angel" Waters ( (1964--) 25 1964 (age (2017)-(1964)-((11)<(01)or(11)==(01)and(30)<(25)) ) ) is an Australian professional welter/light middle/middle/super middle/light heavy/cruiserweight boxer of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s who won the New South Wales State (Australia) light heavyweight title, Australian light heavyweight title, Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) light heavyweight title, Australasian Light Heavyweight Title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) light heavyweight title, International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan Pacific super middleweight title, Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) super middleweight title, and Commonwealth light heavyweight title, and was a challenger for the WBC light heavyweight title against Dennis Andries, World Boxing Association (WBA) World light heavyweight title against Virgil Hill, World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight title against Juan Carlos Gómez, and Commonwealth super middleweight title against David Starie, his professional fighting weight varied from 167+1/2 lb , i.e. super middleweight to 185+1/4 lb , i.e. cruiserweight.
Robert Lloyd "Bob" Foster (December 15, 1938 – November 21, 2015) was an American professional boxer who fought as a light heavyweight and heavyweight.
 Known as "The Deputy Sheriff", Foster was one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in boxing history.
 He won the world light heavyweight title from Dick Tiger in 1968 via fourth-round knockout, and went on to defend his crown fourteen times in total from 1968 to 1974.
 Foster challenged heavyweight kings Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali during his career, but was knocked out by both fighters (the fight with Ali was not for a world heavyweight title, but for the regional NABF version).
The NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship ("Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Semicompleto de la NWA" in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
 CMLL had held the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship for over 48 years, when the relationship between the promotion and National Wrestling Alliance broke down in March 2010.
 Blue Demon Jr., the president of NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, telling them to stop promoting the NWA-branded championships since they were no longer part of the NWA.
 On August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship belt and named El Texano Jr., the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion, as the inaugural champion.
Duane Gill (born July 10, 1959) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the Attitude Era under the ring name Gillberg, a parody of then-rival promotion World Championship Wrestling's top star Goldberg.
 During his tenure in the WWF, Gill became a one time Light Heavyweight Champion.
 He would go on to hold the title for 15 months, becoming the longest reigning Light Heavyweight Champion as recognized by WWE.
Crawford "Chilling" Ashley (born Gary Crawford, 20 May 1964 in Leeds is an English professional super middle/light heavy/cruiser/heavyweight boxer of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Central Area light heavyweight title, BBBofC British light heavyweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) light heavyweight title (twice), and Commonwealth light heavyweight title (twice), drew with Yawe Davis for the vacant European Boxing Union (EBU) light heavyweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) light heavyweight title against Graciano Rocchigiani, World Boxing Association (WBA) World super middleweight title against Michael Nunn, World Boxing Association (WBA) World light heavyweight title against Virgil Hill, and World Boxing Union (WBU) cruiserweight title against Sebastiaan Rothmann, his professional fighting weight varied from 163 lb , i.e. super middleweight to 211 lb , i.e. heavyweight.
Umar Salamov (born 7 June 1994, Alkhan-Kala, Russia) is a Russian light-heavyweight professional boxer.
 Salamov has held the WBO Youth World Light Heavyweight title, IBO Youth World Light Heavyweight title and the IBO World Light Heavyweight title.
 Salamov is currently ranked 8th in the WBO world rankings and 19th in Boxrec independent computerized rankings.
George Gardner (born March 17, 1877 – July 8, 1954), was a famous Irish-born American boxer who was the first undisputed World Light Heavyweight Champion.
 He held claims to both the World Middleweight Title as well as the World Heavyweight Title.
 He was the second man in history to hold the World's Light Heavyweight title, defeating the first Light Heavyweight Champion, Jack Root by KO after 12 rounds.
Thomas Patrick Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was an American professional boxer and the former World Light Heavyweight Champion.
 Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Loughran as the #7 ranked light heavyweight of all time, while "The Ring Magazine" founder Nat Fleischer placed him at #4.
 The International Boxing Research Organization rates Loughran as the 6th best light heavyweight ever.
 Loughran was named the "Ring Magazine"'s Fighter of the Year twice, first in 1929 and again 1931.
 He was inducted into the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1956 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962).
 He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.
 Nicknamed "The Mongoose", and then "The Old Mongoose" in the latter half of his career, Moore holds the record for the most career knockouts (132) in boxing history.
 Moore was a highly strategical and defensive boxer, with a great chin and bludgeoning power, he ranks #4 on "The Ring"s list of "100 greatest punchers of all time".
 Moore is rated by prominent boxing website BoxRec as the 3rd greatest pound-for-pound boxer of all-time.
 Moore was also a trainer for a short time after retirement.
 He trained boxers such as Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and James Tillis.