My Fair And Balanced Very Accurate Top 30 Pound For Pound Rankings. What About Yours?

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  1. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Here's my list that I tried to be as fair, unbiased and even handed as possible with, what's yours look like, Top 15 is fine or Top 20 will do but you can go all out and do a Top 30 which would be preferable.


    1. Roman Gonzalez
    2. Andre Ward
    3. Sergey Kovalev
    4. Vasyl Lomachenko
    5. Canelo Alvarez
    6. Gennady Golovkin
    7. Carl Frampton
    8. Manny Pacquiao
    9. Carlos Cuadras
    10. Terence Crawford
    11. Naoya Inoue
    12. Keith Thurman
    13. Shinsuke Yamanaka
    14. Oleksandr Usyk
    15. Guillermo Rigondeaux
    16. Deontay Wilder
    17. Kell Brook
    18. Francisco Vargas
    19. James DeGale
    20. Kazuto Ioka
    21. Jorge Linares
    22. Billy Joe Saunders
    23. Timothy Bradley
    24. Badou Jack
    25. Jermall Charlo
    26. Alexander Povetkin
    27. Donnie Nietes
    28. Adonis Stevenson
    29. Shawn Porter
    30. Wanheng Menayothin

    Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko, Takashi Uchiyama, Grigory Drozd, Denis Lebedev, Juan Francisco Estrada, Viktor Postol, Bernard Hopkins, Krzysztof Glowacki, Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez off the list
     
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  2. capt1

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    Great list, I would have to think about it.
     
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  3. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Why no Wilder???
     
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  4. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    He almost made it, but I left Fury off too, he's probably somewhere around 33 to 35.
     
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  5. The Shockmaster

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    cotto too low....would have him higher than crawford...not exactly saying id put cotto that high...but i think crawford is too high here
     
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  6. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I,m pretty sure he would beat WK rather easily...
     
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  7. Jake LaMotta

    Jake LaMotta Lights Out Full Member

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    Loving the inclusion of Drozd. Froch shouldn't be on the list as he's off the ring's list now. Cannot really argue with the names, order is a bit meh. Golovkin and Kovalev should not be top 5. Missing guys like Ruenroeng and Nietes. Solid overall...cannot have too many complaints.
     
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  8. Cafe

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    I don't understand people rating GGG so highly, I mean I'm a huge fan of GGG but you have to stay objective, GGG has done nothing to deserve such a high ranking. Rigondeaux should be higher.

    I think Gonzalez ought to go above Wlad as well now after their last performances.

    Other than those, I think it's too opiniated to really disagree with.
     
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  9. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Elite fighters won,t fight him...extreme risk, low reward.
    This could hurt his legacy....
     
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  10. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He,s number 1 on my PFP list btw...
     
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  11. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Rigo is a case of, What have you done for me lately? Like Crawford since Rigo's defeat of Donaire, he's beaten Gamboa, Beltran, Burns, Klimov and Dulorme that's worth more than 1 Nonito IMO. Even Inoue had a far better year than Rigo last year.

    I think GGG's opposition is decent and in spite of their lackluster rankings they are all not that easy to beat, and he beat them all with ease by KO. That counts for something to me.
     
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  12. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Ruenroeng almost made my list but the nature of the wins over Ioka and Arroyo weren't that dazzling. So that leaves Zou who while a great win on paper isn't that great in reality.
     
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  13. Cafe

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    OK but Cotto has just done something similar to GGG and yet he's 14 spots down. Lots of fighters on your list have done what Golovkin has or beaten way better opposition yet are way lower. I can see your point with Rigo, that's fair reasoning.
     
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  14. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I take umbrage with the fact the he's the Lineal Champion yet he's not defending the title at 160, which means his one legit win over Geale doesn't mean as much as GGG's and the win over Sergio means nothing to me and many others Sergio was completely done.

    Cotto has a wins over a drained Geale and a crippled Martinez, Delvin and losses to Trout and Mayweather to hold against him.

    GGG has wins over healthy Monroe, Murray, Rubio, Geale, Adama, Stevens, Rosado, Macklin, Proksa, Ishida and all by KO.

    The quality of the wins based on opponents health counts and GGG's perfect record counts as well.
     
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