Heavyweights - Current Ring Magazine Top Ten ...and my own Top Ten (01/10/18)

If I'm Dana White, id be setting up a London Prize Ring Rules boxing division through the UFC and let these bad boy entertainers shine.

 

Breazeales only loss is to Joshua . Hes inactive bc of wilder playing games.Hes the mandatory of WBC so hes got to be in there. He also holds a win over Izu who at the time was considered overwhelming favorite and a better fighter then Parker bc hes more skilled and hits harder.

I would take Joyce over Parker which is why I had Whyte ranked over Parker last rankings I did. Joyce arguably defeats Whyte but whyte is just starting to put everything together and might fight Joshua very soon again.

I don't do rankings on resumes or you get inaccurate rankings based on actualy match ups and the fights themselves bc resumes don't fight each other...... The boxing systems have to do that.

Ortiz is ranked high bc its yet to be seen if hes slowed at 49? lol

But he almost defeated Wilder,and that has to add some weight more then a resume.

Ortiz is a highly skilled, decent puncher ,very smart southpaw able to cause many problems IF hes still performing at top level which is a fight to fight basis on this guy.

Im not sure T. Fury should be number 2 but im favoring him over Wilder.

 

C) Vacant. I know different people place different values on lineage, but Fury dragged the whole lineal thing through so much dirt. 3+ years between meaningful opponents, 2 official retirements straight from the horses mouth and all of it self imposed.

1) Joshua. Unified champion, his resume is streets ahead of Wilder's and he did it in a much shorter time period. Anybody ignoring those facts in their rankings is allowing their bias to cloud their objectivity and rationale.

2) Wilder. Poor reign all things said but his win over Ortiz is probably better than anything on anybody else's resume, bar Joshua's.

3) Whyte. The overachiever on the list, he may have been lucky but his win over a prime former champion is more relevant than anything on Povetkin's or Ortiz's CV. Also has a decent modicum of depth through names such as Chisora, Helenius and Browne.

4) Povetkin. Whilst physically fading he has shown he is still among the most skilled of all the heavyweights. At almost an identical stage to his career as the next man on this list but the Russian has a far deeper resume.

5) Ortiz. Weak resume, but is clearly very skilled and took a lot of credit out of a losing cause against Wilder.

6) Winner of Hughie/Pulev. Given Pulev's longstanding credibility and the skills Hughie displayed against Parker I think whomever takes this bout will have a better single win than anybody outside of the top five.

7) Parker. Highly competitive fight with #3 with many feeling he was unlucky. Needs to get back to winning habits though (should fight Chisora IMO).

8) Chisora. I personally believe he was a lucky recipient of a poor game plan on Takam's part, but that doesn't change the fact that he beat a known quantity that has had competitive fights with Povetkin and Parker.

9) Breazeale. Less depth than Miller, but I rate his Igonoh win highly. Coming off a loss he threw himself right back in against a highly touted, hard hitting prospect, and picked himself up off the canvas to get the win. It's a far greater risk than anything Miller has picked from his cherry tree.

10) Miller. Locked in here until he steps up, has a decent string of top 20-30 names and has beat them all fairly convincingly (Washington, Wach and Duhaupas) but it's really beginning to feel like he's very happy to avoid any top ten or even fifteen fighter until he gets his shot/payday. I want to see him fight somebody like Ruiz.

 

1:joshua
2:wilder
3rtiz
4:whyte
5arker
6ovetkin
7:fury
8:miller
9:kownacki
10:breazeale

honourable mentions
hrgovic and joyce and pulev I think all 3 beat #9 and 10# tomorrow if fought but they got to do it first.

 

best list on this forum lol love how you went into depth with each guy bravo

 

I think this is a perfect list and summing up of the current top 10. I think a requirement to get on the list is to fight a minimum of 3 Top 50 guys and therefore any prospects such as Joyce, Hrgovic etc cannot be considered until they have atleast done this.

 

Why would Chisora be in your list, surely Kabayel would be higher than him?

 

I think some of the prospects and prospect outliers could crash into that top 10 soon. I'm thinking Hrgovic, Gorman, Joyce, Dubouis, Dycho, Plechko.

 

I see some very strange lists.Breazeales was terrible against Mansour(losing 4 of 5 rounds, before Mansour got injured), against Kassi also very bad performance(watch the fight, not what judges said).To put him in top 10, and over Hrgovic and many others is veeery strange for me.I think (some of) you should look out of what "big tv" is showing.

 

No version of Chisora can beat Kabayel. He's too slick, like a German gypsy. Kabayel hasn't done anything since because Matchroom have probably blacklisted him. Do you think they would let him near Whyte or Joshua? Absolutely not.

 

Stopped reading when i got to this garbage. I thought i was in for a non bias informative post and it quickly went to the same tired biased bs prevelent on this forum.

 

It's a troll list. He included Takam and put him above Ortiz. It took all of his strength to not put Lucas Browne in the top ten.