Top Ten P4P Fighters of the 2000's

1. Manny Pacquaio
2. Bernard Hopkins *
3. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
4. Shane Mosley
5. Eric Morales *
6. Marco Antonio Barrera *
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Winky Wright
9. Joe Calzaghe
10. Joel Casamayor

*I think B-Hop's win over a prime Tito, his level of competition in general, and his longevity count for more than Mayweather's unbeaten record. I know plenty of people will disagree.

*Barrera and Morales are interchangeable, Barrera won their trilogy and beat Hamed, but Morales beat Pacquaio and Jones, both of whom in-turn beat Barrera

*I personally believe that El Cepillo beat both Freitas and Castillo, and he holds x2 wins over Corrales. An underrated talent.

Am I forgetting someone really obvious who should have been on the list?

 

No.

Jones has lost 4 of his last 9 fights, and hasn't beaten a live body since scraping past Tarver in '03.

Jones would struggle to make the Top 20, let alone the Top 10 of the decade.

 

1. His 7 defences were against 'C' class fighters.

2. He beat John Ruiz for that title.

3. He got a gift against Tarver and lost the series anyway.

4. Ok....

5. It's the IBO.

6. Exactly, 4 losses, 2 brutal KO's, hasn't beaten any live bodies for 7 years.

7. What?

 

Floyd has built his career on the back of cherry picking world titles, in an era when world titles have lost much of there prestige and signifigance. He hasn't fought B-Hops level of competition, and he doesn't have any wins on his record of the same magnitude as Bernard's destruction of a prime ATG Trinidad.

 

Both Klitschko's are worthy of consideration, IMO. :good