Top fight you want in each division in 2016 and why?

Here is mine:

Heavyweight: Anthony Joshua v David Haye

Big domestic showdown, which would answer a lot of questions about both fighters and sell out Wembley.

Cruiserweight: Grigory Drozd v Denis Lebedev

A title unification, a big fight in Russia, and would identify the winner as the clear leader in the division.

Light Heavyweight: Sergey Kovalev v Adonis Stevenson

Unifies all the major belts, and would see scummy Stevenson leave the ring on a stretcher.

Super Middleweight: James DeGale v George Groves II

Another big domestic fight. Would see DeGale attempt to rectify the only blemish on his record, with Groves in the last chance saloon.

Middleweight: Saul Alvarez v Gennady Golovkin

Huge fight that would see the lineal champ fight the top fighter in the division.

Junior Middleweight: Liam Smith v Miguel Cotto

Cotto is the biggest name at Jr Middleweight if he drops down, and Smith is the least boring of the current title holders.

Welterweight: Manny Pacquiao v Kell Brook

If Brook was to beat Pacquiao, he'd become a huge draw, and with him not being invovled in the Haymon-Arum-De La Hoya, cold war, he could also fight anyone (and Khan would come looking for a payday from him)

Jr Welterweight: Terence Crawford v Viktor Postol

Top two names in the division square off to create a clear leader.

Lightweight: Anthony Crolla v Terry Flanagan

Two Manchester lads, two world champions, big in the UK

Jr Lightweight: Takashi Uchiyama v Nicholas Walters

Long time beltholder doing battle with the big name moving up from Featherweight

Featherweight: Vasyl Lomachenko v Guillermo Rigondeaux

Two of the most decorated amatures in history fighting for a title on the pro scene.

Jr Featherweight: Carl Frampton v Scott Quigg

Already signed and will be huge in the UK. Hopefully the fight is competitive and entertaining enough for a rematch in Ireland too.

Batamweight: Jamie McDonnell v Lee Haskins II

Rematch of a fight from years back (won by Haskins) now both have made names for themselves and hold world titles. Another big domestic dust-up.

Jr Batamweight: Naoya Inoue v Kohei Kono

Two world titles holders from Japan unifying their belts

Flyweight: Roman Gonzalez v Juan Francisco Estrada II

First fight was a classic, both have moved up in weight and improved since then, hold 3 of the 4 titles between them.

Jr Flyweight: Donnie Nietes v Ryoichi Taguchi

Probably the two best fighters in the division. Would unify two of the titles.

Strawweight: Katsunari Takayama v Kosei Tanaka

Another domestic unification fight with a veteran taking on a prospect in an interesting crossroads fight.

 

Yep. No way Arum feeds Pacquiao to The Special One™

 

On the Batamweight part, I think it's improved a lot this year.

Some good competitive fights happned;

Yamanaka beat Moreno
McDonnell beat Kameda twice
Payano beat Warren
Haskins beat Iwasa

If the winners start fighting each other then happy days

 

Payano v Rau'shee was a really good fight. He might not have done much as a pro but he was favourite going in.

Haskins performed well against Iwasa who is a good fighter was and had only lost to Yamanaka by last round stoppage. Haskins style was all wrong for him. Bear in mind Lee also has wins over McDonnell and Hall, his resume holds up well. I also think Caballero knew he was a tough fight and made no real effort to make the weight.