Better fighter: Johnny Tapia or Joe Calzaghe?

You rank fighters primarily on ability whereas I factor in accomplishments, resume, and longevity, and that'll be why we disagree on this. No big deal.

 

I rate them on all 3 although i probably do give more credit on ability than most.

 

Your ranking of Ricardo Lopez is indicative of that. I'm not criticizing it, but there's no case to be made for Lopez being even top 50 if we heavily consider achievements, longevity, and resume.

 

A young Danny Romeros loss to lesser than talented Willie Salazar is something that happens in boxing Terry Norris loss to Derrick kelly Gerald Mccellan loss to a couple of nobodies its happened many other times and will happen again and again. Just a fluke thats all.

 

His resume is similar to that of Calzaghes but his abilities similar to a super elite top 10 or 20 ATG. Combine the 2 and his ranking is still very high.

 

I've noticed on my own list I can be on and off a hypocritical ***** about when I want to rate more on h2h or accomplishments.

 

I knew you wouldn't admit it. :yep Lopez has a clown shoes resume, and that's what you get for refusing to move up from the barren wasteland.

 

Yey manytimes what clinches the tie breaker for me is ability and then i end up ranking the guy with the lesser resume ridiculously high cause i keep putting him higher than the next tier(who have better resumes) cause i figure he would beat that guy too. Maybe thats why i have Adamek probably too low on my pfp list cause i just think theres alot of guys better than him(abilitywise), same with Froch.

 

The guy actually has an even better title fight record than Calzaghe.

Lopez top 35 atg.
Top 10 ability wise.

 

It's a fun kind of headache the list-making can give you though.

 

You the man, Anarci.

 

Tapia was better than Calzaghe. Not to get off the subject but i have to agree that Romero was a beast and seemed destined for greatness. I remember leading up to the fight I thought Romero was going to stop him in the mid rds. Man was I surprised at how controlled and disciplined Tapia fought. If I remember correctly wasn't Romero the one who trash talked prior to the fight and didn't his father once train Tapia?

 

:good Correct Romero(little Mario Lopez) seemed he had a real dislike for Tapia,he trained Tapia for a little when he as an amatuer . The buquer crowd stood loyal to the already popular Tapia, it seemed like 80 to 90% of the crowd were going for Johnny. And the funny thing is probably the few fans in the crowd pulling for Romero were Tapias family(Read his book Mi vida loca).

 

This one is easy to me. Calzaghe easily. Tapia to me was a bit overrated.

 

do you know what irony means?