***The Top 50 Wins Of The Decade, 2000-2009***

calzaghe lacy'ing roy jones has got to be up there, the gulf in class was absoloutely huge.

 

Roy Jones was shot you ****ing idiot.

 

Great read and great list!

Didn't you score the 2nd Pac-Marquez fight for Pac? Or did your mind change yet again? Still agree with not putting it in the list, way too close and too controversial a result, it's one of the top fights of the decade but not the best win of the decade since it's far from a clear win.

Initially I thought that Froch-Taylor deserved a mention, but when I saw Pavlik-Taylor in there I realized that Froch-Taylor is like Pavlik-Taylor light, since Taylor was more highly regarded at the time.

 

Good stuff Popkins. great effort and a wonderful read.

 

calzaghe was the one who was shot and yet he still put on an incredible beatdown for the fans :deal

 

true but I believe he was saying is that Margo didnt DOMINATE cotto the whole fight like pacman did, Cotto was doing brilliant in the first half of the fight against margabricko...

 

Unlike you I respect fighters that aren't from my country. Calzaghe is a ATG and arguably the GOAT at 168 but he beat a shot RJJ that night, no ifs ands or buts about it. Calzaghe wasn't shot and could possibly still be fighting today. I would favor him over everyone at 175 right now with the exception of Dawson who I feel would be too much for him.

 

I have a couple of complaints but nothing really major. I'm not going to tarnish the Great work you've done.

 

Great list Popkins. Great thread, well detailed and thoroughly explained.

I'm a little confused on the injury-cut area. How was Vitali injured against Lewis? Yeah he had a awful cut, but that's apart of boxing. Aren't there wins on that list where one of the fighters is cut? I can understand an injury like in the Byrd fight and not counting his win over Vitali.

My thoughts are that I think the Morales win over Pac in retrospect is better than Pac over Barrera. I also think the #10 win you have listed is overrated. To me, it's almost the equivalent of having Danny Williams over Mike Tyson on the list (Not quite the same but similar).

Speaking of which, Lewis over Tyson isn't even an honorable mention.

 

Roy Jones was busted for Andro back in 2000, which could be purchased at GNC up until 2004. I am not excusing it altogether, but he did pass the two follow up tests afterwords and never failed one before or since.

And juicing up to fight Ruiz is pure speculation, unlike Toney who had the win taken away. Roy hired a world renown physical trainer to help him get to heavyweight.:deal

 

Rahman over Lewis since it was a MASSIVE upset.

 

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No, b/c Lennox did what was expected of him.

 

man get a girlfriend

 

dawson is the latest in a long line of american hype jobs and he is about to have his china chin smashed to smitherines by B-level pascal :deal