1. Miguel Cotto 2. Saul Alvarez 3. James Kirkland 4. Erislandy Lara 5. Antonio Margarito 6. Carlos Molina 7. Vanes Martirosyan 8. Austin Trout 9. Alfredo Angulo 10. Cornelius Bundrage Wolak, Cintron, Gomez, Quintana and Andrade are just south of the list. Bundrage could be higher but I just feel like these other guys top him.
Vanes and especially Margarito do not belong on any top 10 list IMO, and I'm pretty hesitant about keeping Angulo that high as well. I don't have a definitive ranking from 1 to 10, but by tiers with those in each one roughly equal: Cotto Molina Lara Dziniziruk Kirkland Alvarez Trout Konecny Rodriguez Wolak Bundrage
Old List: 1. Miguel Cotto 2. Saul Alvarez 3. James Kirkland 4. Erislandy Lara 5. Antonio Margarito 6. Carlos Molina 7. Vanes Martirosyan 8. Austin Trout 9. Alfredo Angulo 10. Cornelius Bundrage New list: 1. Miguel Cotto 2. Saul Alvarez 3. James Kirkland 4. Erislandy Lara 5. Carlos Molina 6. Alfredo Angulo 7. Austin Trout 8. Vanes Martirosyan 9. Delvin Rodriguez 10. Antonio Margarito
Lara-Kirkland would be a crowd pleaser, in a different way Kirkland-Angulo was. Nice lists SS, you on fire today.
Fan favorite for me (other than Kirkland) is Rodriguez. Something about the guy makes you just want to hope he pulls out the wins.
I think some people are really overrating Lara based on the Paul Williams fight alone. He looked poor against the other step up fights he's ever had in Molina and Brewer. Some guy on this board just stated he'd favor him over Golovkin... Wonder if they'll keep that if Ishida pushes Paul too? Trout certainly deserves to be ranked over Lara. Honestly I would bet that Sechew Powell would earn a decision over Lara. Lukas Koneckny also deserves to be on the list very much.