Top 100 Lists - Your 90-100

No particular order:

Manuel Ortiz
Eric Morales
Marco Antonio Barrera
Shane Mosley
Hector Camacho
Meldrick Taylor
Terry Norris
Jersey Joe Walcott
Naseem Hamed

 

Having Barrera in the same bracket as Hamed is laughable. :verysad Better resume, better skills, and he actually dominated him when they fought during their respective primes. Barrera is on a different planet to Hamed, and quite frankly, so is Camacho. Meldrick Taylor and Norris didn't achieved half of what Barrera, and neither of them enjoyed more time at the top than Barrera did.

Barrera should be in the top 70, as should Erik Morales, at least in my estimation.

 

Russell, welcome back. I was wondering where you'd been lately :good

 

Manuel Ortiz should be a shoe in for top 100. 15 title defences of his world title. When there was only one title!

 

MAB should certainly be ranked higher than Naz and so should morales.
Still think Naz is fairly underated by many people however. He's got a pretty strong record.

 

Naz is underrated, people just hate on him, but he doesn't make a top 100 for me.

People that just about make it? Off the top of my head, Calzaghe is no.100, I'd say Conteh, Morales and Marcel break in. two of them didn't have PACKED resumes but are clearly very, very talented, Morales was decent but I have Barrera about no.80 and I feel he was superior. It's hard for me, I definitely have 'brackets' that I can envision certain fighters in, but my list pretty much changes daily :good

 

90. Ken Buchanan
91. Jack Dempsey
92. Gilberto Roman
93. Eusebio Pedroza
94. Ossie Ocasio
95. Wilfredo Vazquez
96. Iran Barkley
97. Edwin Rosario
98. Naseem Hamed
99. Rafael Limon
100. Mike Tyson

 

In no order, these are the fighters I think would make my 90-100 bracket. Of course if I actually wrote the list the ten would surely be different, but these are the guys I immediately think of as occupying that sort of level:

Shane Mosley
Juan Manuel Marquez
Jack Dempsey (the heavyweight)
Wilfred Benitez
Vicente Saldivar
Antonio Cervantes
Nicolino Locche
Aaron Pryor
Carlos Zarate
Matthew Saad Muhammad

 

Mosley and Benitez could be a tad higher for me.

Mosley has huge strengths in longevity, and holds wins over Oscar De La Hoya, Fernando Varga, Ricardo Mayorga, and Antonio Margarito. He's been successful above his optimal weight, a multi-weight world champion who is still going storng.

Benitez was a two weight world champion when championships meant something, he was a world champion at 17 years of age, which is insane, and he holds wins over good fighters in Cervantes, Palamino, Duran, and his one punch knockout over Hope was great considering the guy was a pure boxer. His skills speak for themselves.

 

What's the reasoning for having Ocasio over Tyson?

 

Quite surprised to see a few of those names in any kind of top 100 list. Ossie Ocasio? Really?

 

They are strange choices but Buchanan would make the 60-80 range, possibly.

Now I'm more immersed with 'pre-Louis' fighters I'm gonna' have to re-think my entire list! Still, gives me more people to fill it up with, more headaches (of course) but hopefully a lot more knowledge and interesting tidbits to come with it.