From 1 down to 5 who are the top 154 fighters right now? Boxing Life This content is protected This content is protected
5 aint enough and I'm not too sure about that number 2. Order is reasonable though. Get Bochunk in there and hopefully Boots will show up to the party. Xander Zayas might find a spot in there, too. Who am I missing?
I think the division has more than five moving parts. The two guys who fought on the weekend. Probably add Charles Conwell to the mix from the weekend also. Then there's Timmy 2 Times, Bud Crawford, Madrimov, Funky Dora & the Russian IBF champ. Maybe even Lubin & Charlo if they get down to the hardware store. That's 10 blokes. And I forgot Jesus Ramos (thank you to the lads from The Ring for the reminder - btw guys, the Frog you have in there is cooked - time to take him out). Make that eleven. Errol Spence makes 12. It seems to me we're going to have two conferences in operation, so that needs to be taken into account. You have the Turki conference & PBC. Very few of the participants would appear to have the ability to traverse both but that's what's going to be needed to put everything together at the end. So where do they rank? Team Turki 1. Bud Crawford (WBA Champ, WBO Mandatory - why the special treatment for Crawford from the WBO? Just b/c.) 2. Vergil Ortiz (WBC Interim champ - tough to beat if he brings those judges) 3. Charles Conwell (tough to beat) 4. Madrimov (good effort against Crawford, but was never in front - imo) 5. Bohachuk (good effort against Ortiz, but was never behind - imo) PBC & Associates 1. Timmy 2 Times (IBF Mandatory - why the special treatment for King Tim from the IBF? Just b/c.) 2. Funky Dora (WBC & WBO champ - why the special treatment for Beanstalk from the WBC? Just b/c.) 3. Errol Spence (Earth to Errol - is there anyone out there?) 4. Bakhram Murtazaliev (IBF champ) 5. Erickson Lubin (don't forget the supaglue, Erick)
1. Madrimov 2. Tszyu 3. Fundora 4. Crawford 5. Bohachuk/Vergil These guys in any order should probably be the top 5. Murtazaliev is decent but unproven, Lubin isn’t good and his best win is a blatant robbery, and the various prospects (Zayas, Tellez, Agyarko, etc.) need to prove themselves and stand out from the rest of the pack.
I'll reluctantly remove Little twin since he hasn't been a JMW in 2 years. Crawford Fundora Tszyu Madrimov Ramos Ramos IMO is still undefeated, I refuse to rank Lubin in front of him
I have it the same, though Crawford would be a tentative number one for me. I would like to see him in a few more fights at the weight.
I like these ratings. Fundora was behind Tszyu bad before freak cut. He is definitely NOT better than Tszyu and the proof is that he DUCKED the immediate rematch...he knows what would happen w his freak bows
