Greatest light heavyweight of the last 25 years?

Hes going up to CW after a few fights but Benavidez might actually be the answer.

 

Artur Beterbiev

If you counted Roy Jones 90s stuff than him

 

Jones at his best is better than the others imo

 

1. Beterbiev
2. Kovalev

 

Tarver did more than a lot of the guys listed, including Roy, and is somehow left out.

 

His name isn't Other.

Ring named Tarver the greatest light heavy of fhe first 2000s decade.

 

So? He lost to Hopkins, Dawson twice & Glen Johnson.. you could argue he has the best win in terms of Roy Jones .. but that depends what sort of condition you thought that Roy Jones was in.. but it still doesn't make him the greatest LHW when you take his career as a whole.. in fact he almost lost to Reggie Johnson too & got dropped by him.. always seemed to need two fights to beat someone convincingly.

 

Glen didn’t deserve any win over him. And he won easily in the rematch.

His win over Roy is the greatest win at 175 of this century.

He didn’t almost lose to Reggie. He beat him and also beat the crap out of Harding and Griffin at his peak.

He later regained a 175 title while almost forty before losing to Dawson.

You sound butthurt about him sparking Roy, 23 years later.

 

There's been a lot of good ones, difficult to choose one.

Antonio Tarver
Dariusz Michalczewski
Bernard Hopkins
Sergey Kovalev
Chad Dawson
Artur Beterbiev
Dmitry Bivol
Joe Calzaghe (Ring and linear champion at 175)

Roy Jones was the greatest middleweight of the 1990s, but not a great light heavyweight during the 25 years between 2001 and 2026.

 

Yes. Peak Kovalev was special. Although his peak was short. Not sure anyone on the list beats him.

 

Maske fought in '07 so he is the obvious #1 pick.