The PPV Era is purely business and some says it launch the death of the sport. Best fighters are hardly fighting the best in their prime. Every boxer is considered a cash cow and being milked for maximum revenue. Fighters that debuted from 1980s until now. 01. Manny Pacquiao 1995 02. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 1996 03. Roy Jones Jr. 1989 04. Pernell Whitaker 1984 05. Bernard Hopkins 1988 06. Evander Holyfield 1983 07. Oscar De La Hoya 1992 08. Julio Cesar Chavez 1980 09. Lennox Lewis 1989 10. Canelo Alvarez 2005 11. Felix Trinidad 1990 12. Erik Morales 1993 13. Juan Manuel Marquez 1993 14. Marco Antonio Barrera 1989 15. Joe Calzaghe 1993 16. Andre Ward 2004 17. Ricardo Lopez 1985 18. Roman Gonzalez 2005 19 .Mike Tyson 1985 20. Wladimir Klitschko 1996 21. Shane Mosley 1993 22. Vitali Klitschko 1996 23. James Toney 1988 24. Gennady Golovkin 2006 25. Nonito Donaire 2001
No Joshua but you have Ward and Donnaire on there. What is this!? Cos it sure ain't a list of who mademost ppv revenue!
What exactly is the criteria? Are we talking resume, legacy, popularity, impact on the sport - or is it simply a list of the 25 BEST (in your opinion) boxers from this era?
We can always nitpick… but overall a pretty decent list. And with a strong lineup like that, it's hard to buy into the idea that boxing is dying!
this generation too caught up on money from the fans to the fighters Ward and Donaire are BETTER than Jousha
Is this supposed to be in an order of some sort? That's assuming it has any consistent criteria at all. It's not very hard to look at actual PPV sales in that span.
I think, it's simply a list of the BEST fighters of the present era. Has got nothing to do with PPV sales.
Any list like that containing Ricardo Lopez but not Michael Carbajal is of questionable standing with me.
