Five Best Fighters Since Ray Leonard.

In no particular order:

1. B-Hop
2. Mayweather
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Pernell
5. Manny Pacquiao

 

No real order.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Manny Pacquiao
Roy Jones Jr
Oscar De La Hoya
Pernell Whitaker

 

No order
Hopkins
Pac
Pbf
Pea
Rjj

 

No particular order
Joe Calzaghe
Nathan Cleverley
Enzo Maccarinelli
Lee Selby
Gary Buckland

 

Replace Hopkins with Usyk.

 

1 Mayweather
2 Pacquiao
3 Chavez
4 Hopkins
5 Whitaker

 

Mayweather, Pacquiao, RJJ, Pernell, Usyk

 

Mayweather, Holyfield, Pac, Whitaker, Jones Jr. Hopkins, Chavez, DLH, Lewis and Gonzalez round off the other 5, with Usyk, Wlad and Marquez being honorable mentions.

 

I think Toney rates a mention here.

 

Ward, Lennox, Finito Lopez all deserve a shout

 

Lennox, Roy, Toney, Floyd, Usyk

 

Roy, Usyk, Holyfield, Manny, Pernell.

There's so many, I could name another five as well but if I have to pick five mine would be those.

 

Hard choices but… RJJ, Mayweather, Pac, Toney, Whitaker

 

Roy Jones was to Pernell Whitaker what Pernell Roberts was to sassafras. And Sassafras relates itself unto sarsaparilla, the Aztec/Spanish version with cacao in it. When nuns from the Victorian times were instructed to either make cocoa or sarsaparilla for the priests, many of them chose to simply shag the priests. Because the beverage-making was simply more time-consuming. Often, this led to unwanted pregnancies. It was Father O'Toole who told Sister Colleen Gallagher that cocoa was an abortifacient-er-prenatal vitamin and that if God wanted the child to be born, she should drink of it and it would be a rite of passage and therefore good and kind. Or something. There was a lot of stammering and stuttering and I'm not sure I heard it all right when I was sweeping up in the hall. Brew it with pennyroyal, he said. That just makes it taste better. Oh, yes, Father, she'd said.

But back then I know Father O'Toole was a huge Jonestard and always thought that he should be rated p4p on his athleticism and that when Hopkins wanted a rematch, he said Hopkins was a quotus unquoticus lying dog-faced pony soldier. Why would anyone think of that or are they a bad person?! He cried out. At the time. "Bad persons!" he added. Is Hopkins someone who just outlasted him or was always better in his own way? In a different way, that discounts athleticism, or power, or speed of hand, hoof and trunk? I don't say so or should I say? Well, we have a difference of colloidal...insipid...parentheses. )





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