Roy Jones Jr James Toney Nigel Benn Chris Eubank Sr Joe Calzaghe Sven Ottke Carl Froch Mikkel Kessler Andre Ward Would be some great fights amongst that lot.
Jones- Lose Toney- Lose Benn- Win Eubank snr- Win (very close) Calzaghe- Lose (very close) Ottke- Win Froch- Draw Kessler- Win Ward- Lose A few of those are very close calls, a few not so much. I have Canelo's result after the fighter, so lose to Jones, lose to Toney, win against Eubank snr etc...
Canelo outpoints Froch, Ottke, Kessler, and Eubank. Ward, Calz, James T and Roy all defeat the skillfull redhead. If I left anyone out, it's a testament to the haste with which I responded.
Assuming we are talking prime here currently I wouldn't take Alvarez to beat any of the 10 aside from Ottke, and even Alvarez ain't getti8ng a decision against Ottke in Germany! I just don't feel the mediocre and meager names Canelo has fought at 168 justifies this kind of overblown adulation. Unfortunately there is no one really currently at 168 that has that 'litmus test' that can be used as a measuring stick for Canelo against these names at 168 IMO. Smith would lose to ALL these guys IMO, Saunders MIGHT squeak a couple on a really PERFECT night, Rocky Fielding and Yildirim have no chance at all. Squeaking by GGG @160 with close and highly controversial decisions does not cut it for me either. Neither does the shell of Kovalev @175, though that looks good on paper. He's unfortunate (or fortunate depening on how cynical you want to be) that GGG aside, there is no real elite talents at 160 / 168 currently that belong in discussions with that list. I'm not convinced GGG beats anyone on that list aside from Ottke, Benn and maybe Eubank either. Maybe in time Benavidez will prove to be elite, but he looks done at 168 anyway and will move to 175 soon enough I think.
Roy Jones Jr - Loss James Toney - Loss Nigel Benn - WIn Chris Eubank Sr - Close Win Joe Calzaghe - Loss Sven Ottke - Win Carl Froch - Win Mikkel Kessler - Win Andre Ward - Loss
He's a great fighter (I don't care how much he goes on to achieve in his career I ain't ever ranking him above Julio C. Sorry but that's just not happening in this lifetime. Not from these lips anyway lol) but SMW is extremely weak division right now and none of the champs he's beaten have beaten anyone who is more than half decent at the weight and neither has Plant. All those guys are way way better than anyone he's fought at the weight and they'd all dominate the current 168 division if they were around today (FTR, I'm not including Clenelo when I say that)
Thanks, man. Hmmmm.....Benn had coma-inducing power that simply cannot be dismissed, and he has the heart of a lion. I think I have to go with the Dark Destroyer here.
Things as they are they would need to knock him out to get a draw he would even beat Ottke by decision in Germany thats how bad it is lol.
Roy Jones Jr - Canelo by KO James Toney - Canelo Points Nigel Benn - Canelo KO Chris Eubank Sr - Canelo Points Joe Calzaghe - Calzaghe Points Sven Ottke - Sven points Carl Froch - Canelo Points Mikkel Kessler - Canelo points Andre Ward - Canelo KO or DQ (Low blows will get punished vs Canelo).
