My current Top 10 Heavyweights

Tua needs to beat a top contender to deserve such a high ranking.

 

1. Wlad
2. Vitali


3. Povetkin
4. Chambers
5. Haye
6. Chagaev
7. Arreola
8. Peter
9. Thompson
10. Boytsov

 

1. Wlad
2. Vitali

3. Povetkin
4. Haye

5. Chambers
6. Peter
7. Arreola
8. Tua
9. Adamek
10. Boytsov

Boytsov needs some more fights before fighting a Top-Heavyweight, but in a few years he could be somewhere at the top of the division. I don´t know if Chagaev comes back, but if he does, he deserves a place in the Top-10.

I hope Haye-Vitali and Povetkin-Wlad happen in the near future. Haye-Povetkin would be great too.

 

I'd have Boytsov in there and bump either Peter or Solis. Tua's too high

 

1. Wlad
2. Vitali
3. Haye
4. Povetkin
5. Chambers
6. Chagaev
7. Valuev
8. Arreola
9. Boytsov
10. Ruiz

 

haye would beat everyone on that list, has far more talent

 

Haye fan

No Adamek and Solis , Ruiz in top 10 and Valuev 7

 

What about Audley Harrison :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Haye is probably a few places too high for my tastes as well, but Adamek doesn't belong anywhere near the Top 10 yet, after only two fights at HW, one of them against an entirely unranked fighter and the other a lackluster struggle against a fighter on the fringes of only some people's Top 10 lists. Valuev being somewhere in the middle-to-bottom of the Top 10 sounds about right too.

I'd tweak it slightly to be more like this:

1. Vitali (his great 2009 allowed him to catch up to and surpass his brother)
2. Wlad
3. Povetkin
4. Chambers
5. Arreola
6. Haye
7. Valuev
8. Chagev
9. Boytsov
10. (sigh) Ruiz

But as far as I'm concerned anything below #7 is vacant...

 

Looks about right. :good

 

Adamek is one of my favourite fighters but he is too small to be a hw and has done nothing at the weight except beat a washed up Golota who was coming off a 1st round loss to Ray Austin, and featherfisted Estrada who caused him all sorts of problems. Solis' only significant victory is over Barrett who is a decent gatekeeper but nothing more, it doesn't warrant him being in my list.

Ruiz hasn't convincingly lost since losing to Jones. Since then he has wins over Rahman a former and future champion, Oquendo and Golota when they were top contenders, and since then lost 2 close SDs to Valuev and one to Chagaev, and dominated McCline who was a contender at the time. Valuev has a very good record and a number of wins over top contenders, Solis, Boytsov etc. haven't fought anyone as good.

I'm not sayiing they are less talented, just that they haven't proved their talent yet. When they do I'll move them up and I'll be glad to, I don't like huggy bear Ruiz either.

 

The champs

1 Vitali
2 Wlad

The classy contenders

3 Haye (most proven, whatever people like to spout)
4 Povetkin
5 Solis

Consistently there/thereabouts
6 Chagaev
7 Valuev
8 Ruiz

Best of the rest
9 Chambers
10 Arreola