From 1990-2016, who do you...

Here's a rough scetch and not necessarily in order.
Floyd Mayweather
Manny Pac
Pernell whitaker
Bernard Hopkins
Evander Holyfield
Lennox Lewis
Roy Jones
Julio Chavez sr.
Roman Gonzalez
James Toney

I'll have to take time to write up summaries on why.

 

Thanks. I'm sure others would have some different names in there, and if I were to spend a whole day thinking about it that list might change as well. But those are the ones that stand out the most.

 

1. Roy Jones Jr.
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Julio Cesar Chavez
4. Manny Pacquiao
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Ricardo Lopez
7. Bernard Hopkins
8. Shane Mosley
9. Oscar Dela Hoya
10.Wladimir Klitschko

Honorable Mention: Felix Trinidad

 

I like this list. Then again I am British. No six, please, we're British!

 

Great list. For something to do, I could take names like Lewis, Gonzalez, Toney out and put in the likes of Tito, Oscar, Finito Lopez and maybe even one of Shane Mosley, GGG and Lomachenko. Chavez and Evander, great though they were, may even fall out if only judged on what they achieved from 1990 on. The other five are definitely in, though. Imagine doing a similar list for 1970-1996.

 

Haha. Please see edited. Cheers!

 

Nice list Murk. Haven't got a problem with any of those names being in it. Cheers your bad self.

 

1. Roy Jones Jr.
2. Pernell Whitaker
3. Floyd Mayweather Jr
4. Manny Pacquiao
5. Ricardo Lopez
6. Julio Cesar Chavez Sr
7. Bernard Hopkins
8. Lennox Lewis
9. Shane Mosley
10. Oscar Dela Hoya

 

Yeah there were a lot of great fighters over the past 26 years so I'm guessing that there are quite a few men who are interchangeable for a top 10 spot.

 

The best in terms of their peak quality any time during this period or seen to what they achieved during this time frame?

Jones, Mayweather and Pac would be my top 3 in both cases, I think. They and probably also Whitaker are a notch ahead of everyone else. All four of those had the rare ability two repeatedly make very, very good opponents look ordinary. Very few can do that.

If Ward impresses against Kovalev I'll probably put him in this company as well. Lopez looked as much as quality as anyone, but it's a bit hard to know exactly what do with him since he stayed at straw weight his whole career.

 

Yuri Arbachakov deserves a mention.