Debating my top ten SMW list

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  1. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    I'm considering my placement of Mitchell over Liles and Froch over Calzaghe.
     
  2. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'm lost for words. That performance was more dominant than Toney-Barkley, Jones-Toney and Calzaghe-Lacy but against a better fighter in 100% shape. What Eubank did at the end of that 11th round is a sign of true greatness that very few fighters in history had.
     
  3. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Byron Mitchell?? He was very ordinary
     
  4. KeedCubano

    KeedCubano Read my posts in a Jamaican accent Full Member

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    Huh? :dunno
     
  5. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Toney was 50% of himself against Jones.
     
  6. KeedCubano

    KeedCubano Read my posts in a Jamaican accent Full Member

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    Yeah but why is Ward below Benn? Why is Calzhage below Eubank? Why is Watson number 1? Why is Froch not there? Where's Kessler?

    Actually, what the **** are you smoking? I want some bro
     
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  7. Bulldog24

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    Benn was looking a world-beater on his super-middle reign with that duck and weave and patience broken up with his power attacks, making Eubank and McClellan miss all night. Ward didn't have the opposition.

    Eubank often fought every seven weeks beating far better opponents than Calzaghe did. Watson, Holmes, Thornton (ranked #1 by everyone) and Rocchi in Germany, Benn at OT, robbed against Collins on St Patrick's Weekend in Ireland and even fought Calzaghe himself on a week's notice. He'd of stopped Joe at his strongest.

    Froch? The guy was very, very limited. Look what ease a 46 year old B-Hop had with Pascal after, doing push-ups between rounds. I just don't massively rate the very basic Kessler. Guys like this Marcus Beyer simply aren't in the universe of the sensational fighters and depth of in early mid 90s.
     
  8. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Look how often Froch was hit against Dirrell, how often he missed, and how he lost every minute of the first nine rounds against Ward. He's not faring well with the sensational boxers of the early 90s like Nunn, Toney and Eubank with their hand and foot speed and defense and counter punching.

    And he's being finished by Nigel Benn if and when dropped like he was against Taylor and Groves.
     
  9. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Are you trolling me.
     
  10. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    WTF?
     
  11. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Good list. But I think Joe should be above Carl and I’m not sure about Byron Mitchell.
     
  12. lufcrazy

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    I share those two queries tbh. Think I'll rewatch Calzaghe against Kessler and Lacy and see if I can reappreciate him.

    Byron is on very thin ice followed closely by Liles and I can't make my mind up with them two.
     
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  13. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Royston at 3?

    Blasphemy.
     
  14. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    No one can seriously think Watson is the best SMW ever. No one.
     
  15. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Good list.

    I’d have to put Roy at number 1.

    None of those guys were better than Roy was at 25-26, when he beat Toney.

    Eubank has to be in there somewhere for me.