10 Best Fighters of the Decade

That list is indicative of why stats do not tell the whole story in the fight game.

 

Please explain. And oops, I omitted Jones. I edited it above.

 

De La Hoya lost more fights than he won...and Jones, all he did in the 2000-2009 period is beat a poor HW champion, and get starched by Tarver and Johnson. All his best work had came before, just like Hoya.

 

In no order.

Marco Antonio Barrera
Manny Pacquiao
Joe Calzaghe
Floyd Mayweather
Shane Mosley
Roy Jones
Bernard Hopkins
De La Hoya
Lennox Lewis
Juan Manuel Marquez

 

The opposition themselves don't always tell the full story. It would be very easy to say "Barkley was ****" or "Davey Moore was an inexperienced nobody" when trying to write off Duran's wins over them, but we both know that those wins were great, don't we? Considering Casa and Diaz had never been stopped before despite being in with some good fighters and good punchers, and that JMM was past his physical prime and above his best weight(s), I'd say they were very good wins.

Cool. As I said, I have Morales above Marquez p4p, but if we are speaking strictly about work done this decade, I have JMM fractionally higher.

Castillo beat Corrales the second time with an unfair weight advantage. I think he would've beaten him anyway, but the fact is he never did beat him fairly, he lost to him then beat him with extra poundage. You're right though, I probably should have Castillo above Calzaghe considering I scored the 1st Mayweather fight for JLC. Consider my top 10 revised to:

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Where's Floyd Mayweather Jr.? :huh

 

Mayweather ? :huh

 

Morales ? :huh

 

Pacquiao
Hopkins
Mayweather
Mosley
Barrera
Morales
Marquez
Wright
Lewis
Cotto

 

Something like this;

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Bernard Hopkins
4. Eric Morales
5. Shane Mosley
6. Marco Antonio Barrera
7. Juan Manuel Marquez
8. Winky Wright
9. Roy Jones Jnr
10. Joe Calzaghe

 

the flip side of that is that corrales won the first fight by buying time with the mouth shield deal...then corrales has the gaul to say that castillo was disrespectful by not making weight for the second fight....

i'm not justifying castillo's blatant decision not to make weight,but if you want to talk about who beat who fairly then you have to call it like it is.

both castillo and corrales were exciting fighters who delivered excellent fights and punched their weight and then some, but i dont think either were top fighters of their era.

 

1. Pacquiao
2. Hopkins
3. Mayweather

4-10 in no particular order:

Mosely
Calzaghe
JMM
MAB
Cotto
Lewis
Morales

 

Pacquiao
Mayweather
Hopkins
Mosley
Calzaghe
Barrera
Morales
Marquez
Roy Jones
De La Hoya

honorable mentions: Trinidad, Castillo, Corrales, Winky, Hatton, Lennox, The Klitschkos

Most feared man: Margarito

 

B-Hop should be fighter of the decade. His only losses have been controversial decisions. Knocked out De La Hoya(Which nobody else has done), TKO'd undefeated Tito, schooled undefeated Pavlik, and after 2 straight losses, he moved up to light-heavy and embarrassed Ring champion Tarver. Other wins include Joppy, Winky and Eastman.

Constantly on the P4P rankings all decade, P4P #1 2004-2005. First boxer to ever unify all four major titles. Six undisputed defences, and many more as a single champion. All while being OLD AS ****.

Pac can't touch that ****.