Heavyweight top ten looking something like this now?

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Champion: Wladimir Klitschko
    1. Alexander Povetkin
    2. Tyson Fury
    3. Deontay Wilder
    4. Kubrat Pulev
    5. Carlos Takam
    6. Bermane Stiverne
    7. Vyacheslav Glazkov
    8. Bryant Jennings
    9. Steve Cunningham
    10. Mike Perez

    What you think?
     
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    Glazkov should definitely be below Jennings at the least IMO.
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Beating Perez more impressive than beating a faded Adamek? Arguable but reasonable I reckon.
     
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  4. MVC!

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    I think you can reasonably put Wilder ahead of Tyson Fury.

    Had Fury beaten Ustinov, you could possibly have him there but beating a Chisora/Abell/USS should not elevate him above Wilder at this point
     
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    Not bad make Number 2 and 3 fight.
     
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  6. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Two and three meet and you have a definitive #1 for the first time in a long time. So, yes, that's a big fight. A much bigger fight that it's being given credit for right now.
     
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    Peril The Scholar Full Member

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    very good list but I wouldn't put Takam and Pulev quite as high until they come back. Some boxers never recover from devastating KO's, and they were both badly beat up.
     
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    lewis gassed The Bronze Dosser Full Member

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    I'll have Wilder at 5, behind Takam and Pulev.
     
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  9. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I hear you, but that's yet to be seen. I tend to think you give them the benefit of the doubt based upon their body of work.
     
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    Champion: Wladimir Klitschko
    1. Alexander Povetkin
    2. Deontay Wilder (debatable between #2 and #3)
    3. Tyson Fury
    4. Kubrat Pulev
    5. Bryant Jennings
    6. Bermane Stiverne
    7. Carlos Takam
    8. Vyacheslav Glazkov
    9. Mike Perez
    10. Ruslan Chagaev

    I'd say that Cunningham will be a bottom half top 10 if he defeats Glazkov.
     
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    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Champion: Wladimir Klitschko
    1. Alexander Povetkin
    2. Tyson Fury
    3. Deontay Wilder
    4. Kubrat Pulev
    5. Bryant Jennings
    6. Steve Cunningham
    7. Vyacheslav Glazkov
    8. Carlos Takam
    9. Bermane Stiverne
    10. Joseph Parker
     
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  12. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace

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    Champion: vacant
    1)Klitschko
    2)Wilder
    3)Povetkin
    4)Fury
    5)Pulev
    6)Stiverne
    7)Jennings
    8.)Glazkov
    9)Takam
    10)Thompson
     
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  13. tennis

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    It's time for fury to take out the trash man

    Americans getting hype but British steel will silence those fools
     
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  14. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    To put it really bluntly, Tony Thompson deserves to be in. You can't just kick him out because he's old. His last five are three wins over Price (2) and Solis and decision loses to Pulev and Takam. Perez and Cunningham don't have s hit on that.
     
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  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    To be equally blunt, nobody who has posted a list agrees with you - he's either unranked or ranked at #10.

    10-12 is his range atm, for me, and I think slotting him in to any one of those is fine.
     
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