Heavyweight Top 25

Here is a tally of the Top 25 heavyweights. Hopefully its a better ranking than Boxrec or any of the orgs.

This ranking is based on PERFORMANCE and RESULTS and NOT ON H2H. Even if a boxer looks like a world-beater and looks like an h2h Top 10, they don't get ranked unless they get a meaningful win.

Please let me know what you think!

1. Wladimir Klitschko
2. Vitali Klitschko
3. Alexander Povetkin
4. David Haye
5. Kubrat Pulev
6. Tony Thompson
7. Eddie Chambers
8. Tomasz Adamek
9. Tyson Fury
10. Steve Cunningham
11. Robert Helenius
12. Chris Arreola
13. Malik Scott
14. Odlanier Solis
15. Johnathan Banks
16. Chisora
17. Chagaev
18. Glazkov
19. Boystov
20. Wach
21. Lawrence
22. Stiverne
23. Dimitrenko
24. Pianeta
25. Price

Honorable mention: Mansour, Charr, Gomez, Jennings, Mitchell, Ortiz.

 

Yeah there is always alot of disagreement about where to rank Chisora.

My reasoning for having him at #16 is that if you look at his performances in his last 4 fights, then it's hard to imagine any of the fighters ranked 17-25 being favored to beat him. All of the fighters with legit wins over Chisora are legit Top 10. Based on his performance in the ring, Chisora deserves to be ranked.

 

Charr's only decent W is a UD vrs Bydenko, where he wasn't very impressive. He's been the beneficiary of shady hometown refs. Go to 9:09 in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziofUmZp6AI

He also should have lost to Zach Page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHMolDui5o

Haye at #4 is not controversial imho.

Helenius hasn't been the same since his injury but Sherman Williams and Michael Sprott are decent wins and he hasn't gotten enough credit for them. He was on a good run prior to Chisora and got hyped up and now everyone is dismissing him....a bit prematurely imho.

 

I can agree that a prime Solis is probably the favorite vrs. all those guys, but there's an argumnent to be made that Solis has slowed down and isn't going to get back in shape. He got tagged alot by Larsen.