Five Best Fighters Since Ray Leonard.

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  1. Young Terror

    Young Terror ★ Griselda ★ Full Member

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    I would go with :

    1- Floyd Mayweather
    2- Manny Pacquiao
    3- Roy Jones Jr
    4- Pernell Whitaker
    5- Julio Cesar Chavez

    For me these are the best five. I think the first four are pretty clear altough the order of each fighters placement can be debatable as can be Chavez at fifth place as others have a good claim to be there instead of him.

    Anyway i went with these five now give me your five.
     
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  2. Renaldo's Last Stand

    Renaldo's Last Stand Member banned Full Member

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    In no particular order:

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

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No real order.

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

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    No order
    Hopkins
    Pac
    Pbf
    Pea
    Rjj
     
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  5. Ducklerr

    Ducklerr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    Replace Hopkins with Usyk.
     
  7. The Phenom

    The Phenom Pretty Handsome Full Member

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    1 Mayweather
    2 Pacquiao
    3 Chavez
    4 Hopkins
    5 Whitaker
     
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    RealDeal Pugilist Specialist Full Member

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    Mayweather, Pacquiao, RJJ, Pernell, Usyk
     
  9. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    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.
     
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  10. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I think Toney rates a mention here.
     
  11. Ducklerr

    Ducklerr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ward, Lennox, Finito Lopez all deserve a shout
     
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    Themessiah El Jefe Full Member

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    Lennox, Roy, Toney, Floyd, Usyk
     
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  13. Liquorice

    Liquorice Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    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.
     
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  14. Kell Macabe

    Kell Macabe I don’t know s*** about boxing Full Member

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    Hard choices but… RJJ, Mayweather, Pac, Toney, Whitaker
     
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  15. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    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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