Heavyweight: Holmes Cruiser: Holyfield Light-Heavy: Galindez Super-Middle: Froch. Hometown boy. Middle: Toney Light-Middle: McCallum Welter: Napoles Light-Welter: Chavez Light: Whitaker Super-Feather: Arguello Feather: Sanchez Super-Bantam: Fenech Bantam: Lora Super-Fly: Watanabe Fly: Laciar Light-Fly: Gonzalez Straw: Lopez
Holmes Holy Tunney Jones Monzon Hearns ..ditto Leonard Kid Pambele Duran..ditto Arguello JMM Gomez Fenech Dont follow the rest
Had a few changes of heart. So for some new competition, I'll list either my second favourites, or my new favourites, with a star to differentiate them, the star means they're my new favourite/not listed as favourite above. HW - Dillian Whyte* 200 - Floyd Patterson 175- Marvin Johnson 168 - George Groves 160 - Bernard Hopkins 154 - Carmen Basilio 147- Luis Rodriguez* 140 - José Napoles 135 - Sammy Angott 130 - Rocky Lockridge 126 - Danny Lopez 122 - Erik Morales* 118 - José Medel 115 - Gilberto Roman* 112 - Miguel Canto 108 - Roman Gonzalez*
Chang beats Gonzalez. Prime Jiro beats Roman. Canto beats... Canto. Harada already beat Medel. Pintor beats Morales IMO. Sanchez already beat Lopez. Canzoneri beats Lockridge. Duran beats Angott. Froch already beat Groves. Moore beats Johnson. Holyfield beats Whyte. Napoles beats Pryor. Rodriguez beats Napoles. Basilio beats McCallum. Patterson beats The Cat in an awesome fight. Undecided on Lausse vs Hopkins. Eat that.
Eat that? I'll use my original favourites and then I win. I agree with Chang vs Gonzalez, Canzoneri, Moore, Durán, Holyfield, both Napoles fights and Patterson and obviously can't disagree w Lopez vs Sanchez and Froch vs Groves. Medel vs Harada was split 50-50... I'd definitely pick Hopkins over Lausse as well. I don't agree that Carmen beats McCallum. At all lol, but I'd love to hear the thinking there, I had Roman beating Jiro 118-110, idt he'd lose to a less faded version, although Jiro is someone I need to watch more of. I'd pick Morales over Pintor, although that's defo a swing 50-50. It's a lot more competitive with my original list. Lewis UD12 Holy Usyk dismantles the Cat Charles vs Moore... Froch stops Saunders Toney UD12 Lausse, swing fight Hearns MD15 McCallum Gavalin MD15 Napoles Pryor stops Hatton Durán vs Durán? Canzoneri beats Boza bad Sanchez beats Chacon Rigo UD12 Pintor Harada shits on Burnett Jiro decisions SSR Canto schools Arce Chang is up against Zapata 8-7-1 to you.
Harada at his best beat a Medel who was only slightly past his best, and would beat nearly any other top fighter. That version of Harada would do the same to any version of Medel. Jiro had wild, mercurial fluctuations in his performances, especially later on in his career. Not really any sharpness in that Roman bout. At his best he could track Roman down, keep up with his movement, and snipe him with those short inside shots and sniper lefts. He would have to be quite aggressive, which he could do, maybe taking a page from Laciar. After all, it was Jiro's last ever bout, so I don't hold it against him too much (though he pissed it away himself). My Basilio pick was never going to be popular, so I'll give you that. I'll say the same about Pintor-Morales too (though it's a lot closer). Lausse vs Hopkins is an interesting one. Lausse was an off kilter technician with monster power. I could see him, if he lands the needed shots, putting Hopkins to a survival mode strategy. Hopkins is also just as likely to plan and game a decision win.
