Rank the career of these fighters: Hatton, Taylor, Forrest, Arce and Michalczewski

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  1. BigBone

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    1 Darek - was so good in his prime, long & impressive LHW reign as lineal champ plus CW belt, beat everyone the division had to offer except Roy (debatable who's fault the fight not happening but ultimately it doesn't matter. Dariusz was the lineal champ not Roy and they both failed to secure a fight)

    2 Hatton - very impressive run over top5 P4P Tszyu - TKO, champion Maussa - TKO, close victory over WW champ Collazo, wide UD over champ Urango, P4P top10 Castillo - TKO, champ Malignaggi - TKO, only losses to the 2 P4P kings at the time, lineal LWW champ 2005-2009

    3 Arce - the underrated one! LFW champ at 19, loses to Carbajal. 2-time LFW 2001-2005, very impressive wins over Rubillar, Choi, Gamboa, only one to stop Rob Castro. Interim FW champ 2005-2006, wins over Hussein, Rivas, Alvarez. SFW Losses to Mijares, Darchinyan, Nongquayi, interim and 'normal' SFW champ, wins over Rojas, Singsurat, Concepcion, Garcia. Arce's resume is very deep and he was an AWESOME fighter at LFW and FW and still showed a lot at SFW which clearly wasn't his weight

    4 Forrest - 2 very impressive wins over P4P#1 Mosley but WW reign cut very short (Mayorga), also LMW title vs. Baldomir, losing and getting revenge over Mora, close/debated win over Quartey. The Mosley wins are absolutely awesome but Vernon has little more to show in this competition

    5 Taylor - close (or debated) victories vs. unbeaten-over-a-decade Hopkins for World MW Championship, wins over Joppy, Spinks (I had Cory winning), Ouma (from LMW). Draw vs. Wright (I had Winky winning), losses to Pavlik (TKO & very close decision), Froch (TKO) and Abraham (TKO). So little was missing for Taylor to be a HOF-er: a little more vs. Hopkins to be a clear, non-debated winner, a little more vs. Spinks and Wright not to leave a bad taste getting away with the titles, closing the show vs. Pavlik and Froch when he had them, better conditioning. But boxing is a very tough sport, and JT finishes last on this list of five


    Now the order of 1-2-3 might be debatable, but one thing I'd like to say is that you guys better start watching the young Arce, because he was darn good!