ATG: Who Ranks Higher, Canelo or Donaire?

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ATG: Who Ranks Higher?

This poll will close on May 29, 2031 at 9:11 PM.
  1. Nonito Donaire Jr.

    59 vote(s)
    59.6%
  2. Canelo Alvarez

    40 vote(s)
    40.4%
  1. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Then you proceed to claim that some of his wins are losses. That's not looking at his record then now is it.
     
  2. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You forgot
    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Harry Greb
    Mickey Walker
    Dick Tiger
    Bernard Hopkins


    awwww, that is a long list.
    What Donaire had done is far more historical that Canelo
     
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  3. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon.

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    Like I said before, with the exception of Mickey Walker, those are middleweights who became light heavyweights. Canelo was a junior middleweight who became a light heavyweight champ.
     
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  4. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    H2H i will fancy Donaire to be Top 10 Bantamweight and Flyweight.
    I do not think Canelo is Top 10 in any of MW or LHW.
     
  5. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    What about the original argument? The one ovids tore down. Do you give it to canelo now?
     
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  6. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    None of those guys were ever A-level fighters.

    Consider that A levels are MAB, Morales, JMM, Naseem, Kevin Kelly (barely, maybe an A-), Rigo, Donaire, Inoue, Nelson, Fenech, Loma. Walters is probably B-C, Frampton is a B+ on his best day.
     
  7. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    So you don't view those guys as A-level fighters. That's fine. As long as there are very few A-level wins across all of current boxers' accolades... In which case his resume still stacks up just as great so doesn't even matter.
     
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  8. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You're right, there are very few A-level wins. Which is why Canelo only has 1 A-level win, GGG. Unless you're going to argue that Darchinyan is on equal level ability-wise to GGG.

    I'm not sure who is greater as of now, I thought it was Donaire, but Canelo has a decent argument.