1. Juan Diaz 2. Kelly Pavlik 3. Chad Dawson 4. Nonito Donaire 5. Jorge Linares 6. Yoan Pablo Hernandez 7. Robert Guerrero 8. Andre Berto 9. Amir Khan 10. Andy Lee Joel Julio, Marco Huck & Jean Pascal just missing out. Pretty rough sketch, having made sure each is 25 or under. What would yours be?
How old did you think Duddy was!!! He's 28 man. Kevin Mitchell top 10, not a chance in hell. Oh, & the person that said Andy Lee, good shout, completely forgot about him.
I'd have Juanma Lopez and Victor Ortiz ahead of some of the guys in the back of the top 10 there. Roman Gonzalez, Koki Kameda and Billy Dib probably deserve shout outs as well. Top 5 looks good to me, though not necessarily in that order. Not sure I'd put Hernandez in the top 10 (not to mention that he's probably older than 25 anyway).
Again, i forgot Ortiz, good shout. I considered Bill Dib, but he has not been in the ring with anyone yet, unlike the other guys who have mildly respectable names on their resumes. I don't agree with Koki. Hernandez is 23. Like I said I did this in computer lab at uni, no doubt I have forgotten some.
He's (at least) 26. Officially, Hernandez is 23, and I'm not saying he should be knocked off the list because of this (I think he should be knocked off the list because his level of competition has been one level below that of Dib, and other than blasting out an already damaged Azzaoui, he hasn't done a whole lot to impress since going pro, so although he looks good, I can't see how he can be rated higher than Huck, who is younger and has fought and beaten tougher competition), but Cuba has a long history about lying about athletes' ages so they can compete better in X-under competitions. It has happened time and time again (my rough estimate is about 40%, based on guys who have defected in baseball and had to have their ages adjusted), so there's little reason to think that at least one of the Cubans isn't older than they say, and he seems like the most likely target.
What mildly respectable name does Amir Khan have on his record just out of curiosity? I know that you are not going to use Graham Earl, he was beaten soundly by a super featherweight who can't actually box (Ricky Burns) and then got blown away against Katsidis. Nothing mildly respectabkle about that