I'm sure this has been done but I'm new here and am curious about the forum favorites. I'll go ahead and list mine and add a short reason for my choices. HW: Deontay Wilder. I am an American and always rooting for American Heavies. I believe that Wilder has the highest ceiling of any US HW. Also a fan of Bryant Jennings. CW: Not a real fan of the division but I'll take Eddie Chambers even after the clinic Mchunu put on him. LHW: Tavoris Cloud. I'll take some heat for this but I always stick w/ my fighters. I'll be the first to say he is extremely limited and has very little chance of making any noise going forward but I'll still root for him over any other LHW. SMW: Andre Ward. I appreciate his skills and respect him out of the ring. Good ambassador for the sport. 2nd best fighter in the game. MW: Peter Quillin. Not a huge fan of PQ but he's the best US MW so it's him by default. Darren Barker made me a fan in the Geale fight. LMW: Gabriel Rosado. Not a great fighter but a great showman. I've been entertained by this guy for a long time. Tough kid, lotta balls. WW: Brandon Rios. Can't get enough of Bam Bam. Love the mentality and the energy. Keith Thurman is also up there (same reasons). JWW: Mike Alvarado. See above. LW: Ji-Hoon Kim. See above. Terrible tactician though, often wish he'd not fight so often due to the ass-whoopings he takes. JLW: Mikey Garcia. Complete fighter. Will not lose for a long time. FW: Abner Mares. Fun fights and classy guy. Will avenge loss to JG and get back to rolling. JFW: Leo Santa Cruz. How can anyone not love this guy? BW and below: I'll admit that I don't follow the lower classes too much. I do always make sure to watch B. Viloria when he fights as well Roman Gonzales (I hate P4P but if I had to do one RG would make my list). Anybody else?
HW: Ruslan Chagaev (somehow still) CW: John Dickinson LHW: Bernard Hopkins (somehow still) SMW: Paul Smith MW: Sergio Martinez LMW: Floyd Mayweather WW: Juan Manuel Marquez (somehow still) LW: Ray Beltran FW: Lee Selby JFW: Carl Frampton FLY: Juan Francisco Estrada JFW: Roman Gonzalez STR: Nkosinathi Joyi (still, somehow)
HW: Do not watch that **** CW: see HW LHW: Stephanson SMW: WARD MW: GGGGGGG/***y JMW: PBF WW: PBF JWW: Garcia LW: Gamboa JLW: Garcia FW: Mares JFW: RIgo BW: Moreno
The Ray Beltran vs Ji-Hoon Kim fight is a perfect example of what I wrote about Kim. Action fight w/ a great 1st round (both fighters floored) but Kim lacks any defense and took a monster beat-down. I agreed w/ Teddy as he was saying this kid needs to take more time off between fights for his own good. But his mentality is what makes him so entertaining and that is hard to change.
HW: David Haye CW: Marco Huck LHW: Adonis Stevenson SMW: Carl Froch MW: Hassan N'Dam LMW: Floyd Mayweather WW: Paulie Malignaggi LWW: Danny Garcia LW: Yuriorkis Gamboa SFW: Mikey Garcia FW: Juan Manual Lopez SBW: Guillermo Rigondeaux BW: Stephane Jamoye
HW: Bryant Jennings, Deontay Wilder, Andy Ruiz Jr, Chris Arreola CW: Ilunga Makabu (****ing beast) LHW: don't really have one SMW: Edwin Rodriguez MW: Gabriel Rosado, Peter Quillin LMW: Alfredo Angulo, Gabriel Rosado if he ever fights LMW again WW: Brandon Rios LWW: Danny Garcia, Brandon Rios LW: Ray Beltran Leo Santa Cruz, Juan Francisco Estrada, Mikey Garcia from below 135 since I don't really know that much
HW: Don't care for the division anymore, last one I truly enjoyed watching was Lamon Brewster. CW: Will be Usyk. LHW: Kovalev SMW: Ward MW: GGG LMW: Kirkland WW: Thurman LWW: Garcia LW: Figueroa or Gamboa. SFW: Uchiyama FW: Lomachenko SBW: Rigondeaux or LSK Don't watch BWs or below much, sad to say.
HW Vitali Klitschko (but he should retire) CW Wlodarczyk LHW Kovalev / Hopkins SMW Froch /Kessler MW Golovkin LMW Alvares WW Marquez LWW Matthysse LW Gamboa SFW ? FW Salido SBW Rigondeaux
HW - Vitali CW - None LHW - Hopkins SM - Froch MW - Golovkin LMW - Canelo WW - Pac LWW - None LW - None SFW - None FW - None SBW - Rigondeaux
Heavyweight: Haye (not much competition here) Cruiserweight: No-one Light-Heavy: Kovalev Super-Middle: Froch Middle: Golovkin Light-Middle: Cotto Welter: JMM Light-Welter: Matthyssé Lightweight: Burns Super-Feather: Uchiyama Feather: Lomachenko Super-Bantam: Rigondeaux Bantam: Agbeko Junior-Bantam: No-one stands out Flyweight: Marquez Jr Fly: Gonzalez Strawweight: Menayothin If Gamboa ever decides to fight again, he'd probably be on there.
HW - David Haye CW - Stephen Simmons LHW - Adonis Stevenson SM - Carl Froch MW - Darren Barker LMW - Floyd Mayweather WW - Floyd Mayweather LWW - Danny Garcia LW - Ricky Burns SBW - Rigondeaux
HW: Tyson Fury (Judge me but I find him funny) CW: Ola Afolabi LHW: Adonis Stevenson SMW: George Groves MW: Matthew Macklin (local to me) LMW: Brian Rose WW: Floyd Mayweather Jr. LWW: Danny Garcia LW: Anthony Crolla SFW: Stephen Smith FW: Billy Dib SBW: Carl Frampton BW: Jamie McDonnell
TBH I don't really play favourites. Enjoy boxing as a whole and just root for a good fight with good performances. I'll weigh in with some guys I enjoy watching. HW - Chisora CW - Afolabi LHW - Hopkins SM - Ward (The way he toyed with a genuinely skilled fighter in Chad impressed me) MW - Sergio (Golovkin is great too) WW - Bradley (Tons of heart and skill. Thought he lost comfortably to Pac though) LWW - None (Great division with tons of talent though) LW - Crawford (Previously Gamboa but his career is AWOL) SFW - None (Some great fighters though) FW - None (Some great fighters though) SBW - Rigondeaux Not educated enough to have a say on the divisions below.
Heavyweight: Tyson Fury Cruiser weight: Thabiso Mchunu Light heavyweight: Adonis Stevenson Super middleweight: Carl Froch Middleweight: Darren Barker Light middleweight: Floyd Mayweather Welterweight: Timmy Bradley Light welterweight: Khabib Allakhverdiev Lightweight: Ray Beltran Super Featherweight: Mikey Garcia Featherweight: Chris John Super Bantamweight: Carl Frampton Bantamweight: Anselmo Moreno Super Flyweight: Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr Flyweight: Hernan Marquez Light Flyweight: Roman Gonzalez
