How would your list of Top 5 AJ wins look like? For me it would be: 1. Wladimir Klitschko - duh! 2. Joseph Parker - aged very, very well 3. Alexander Povetkin - probably the best heavyweight of the generation that never held a major world title 4. Dillian Whyte - Top 5 contender for 6 years after AJ beat him 5. Andy Ruiz Jr. - besides schooling a guy who just beat you up, Ruiz is a pretty good fighter, rated in a Top 10 before and after he beat AJ
Klit <daylight> Pov Parker Whyte Pulev On paper Ruiz should be on there but my god he was so fat I reckon anyone listed above would have beat him that night.
I'd personally switch ruiz and povetkin but agree with that list The Parker win has aged well, but I'd love to see him try it now with Parker, neutral ref etc
I think if AJ won't get the Usyk/Fury fight next he should go for Parker, 100%. Either that or Kabayel.
I only have Ruiz up there because he was technically a world champion, sadly povetkin never quite got there.
This would be spot on for me as well. I dont see the sense in ranking Wallin above Ruiz tbh. Wallin has done nothing near what Ruiz has. I suppose people are considering the ease in which AJ beat him, but still.
I'd agree with that list but with the caveat a fighter can only fight the opposition available and that there will always be an overlap of 'eras', Wlad was well past it, Povetkin was well past it, Ruiz Jr had recently lost on points to every fast food outlet in America and for me, Whyte has never been a world class boxer, hugely entertaining as he always is. Parker is AJ best win for me. He was genuinely dangerous, AJ boxed to a (boring) plan and did what he had too to win, safety first. Wlad had him hurt, Povetkin gave him fits, Whyte had him hurt. If we are saying these are his best because he came back from adversity, fair enough...but for me, the best we have ever seen AJ was not in a winning fight, it was the second Usyk fight. That night he was a problem for any of his contemporaries