Rank these ten fighters (1-10) as you believe them to fall all time.

Joe Calzaghe
Marco Antonio Barerra
Mike McCallum
Ricardo Lopez
Shane Mosley
James Toney
Juan Manuel Marques
Winky Wright
Felix Trinidad

 

1 Ricardo Lopez
2 Mike McCallum
3 James Toney
4 Marco Antonio Barrera
5 Erik Morales
6 Shane Mosley
7 Felix Trinidad
8 Winky Wright
9 Juan Manuel Marquez
10 Joe Calzaghe

Very hard.

 

this is splitting hairs,,,these guys are real close but JOE C....???? over mosely...mosely has fought the best ...what a resume!!!!
I will go
Mosely
Barrera
Lopez
Winky
JC
Toney
tito
Mccallum
jmm

 

1. Mike McCallum
2. Shane Mosley
3. James Toney
4. Felix Trinidad
5. Marco Antonio Barrera
6. Erik Morales
7. Joe Calzaghe
8. Ricardo Lopez
9. Winky Wright
10. Juan Manuel Marquez

They are all quite close. It's difficult to put them in order as there isn't much seperating most of them, but I'll go with this order.

 

1 Erik Morales
2 Felix Trinidad
3 Marco Antonio Barrera
4 James Toney
5 Ricardo Lopez
6 Shane Mosley
7 Mike McCallum
8 Joe Calzaghe
9 Winky Wright
10 Juan Manuel Marquez

 

1.MIKE McCALLUM (easily)

2.MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA (so underrated on this forum. Great resume)

2=ERIK MORALES (joint 2nd with Barrera)

4.SHANE MOSLEY (has climbed a few spots after last night)

5.JAMES TONEY (also underrated. Great mw/smw resume, great achievement competing at hw)

6.FELIX TRINIDAD (sorry tito4eva, I've had a change of heart! The manner of the loss to Wright and his lack of variety as a fighter damages his greatness IMO)

7.RICARDO LOPEZ (should be higher but resume is too weak. Should've fought Carbajal and Gonzalez)

8.JOE CALZAGHE (resume is too weak to justify being placed any higher)

9.WINKY WRIGHT (a very good fighter but not sure if a great one)

10.JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ (I expect him to have climbed a number of spots on this list by the time he retires. Even though I am a huge fan, his resume is not good enough yet and the loss to John harms him)


:bbb

 

Given that quite a few have McCallum in your top five how would you rate Nigel Benn considering that he is the man who ruined him?

 

What are you talking about?? rasta

 

Mosley goes ahead of four fighters you previously ranked him behind on the strength of beating Margarito?

 

Yes. I rank these guys so so closely that any fight can tip the balance in favour of any of them. Example: I have Trinidad ahead of Calzaghe just now by a whisker. If Calzaghe fights Hopkins or Dawson in the summer and dominates them, I'll look at his resume again and think that with that win added, he would then be slightly ahead of Tito. If Tito then returned to mw and upset Pavlik, I'd have to sit down and think if that achievement would pull him ahead of Calzaghe again. When you rank a group of fighters as closely as I do guys like Toney,Mosley,Trinidad,Calzaghe etc, any fight can tip the balance, dependant of the quality of the win. And Mosley at 37 years old upsetting the odds to become the first man to KO the iron-chinned champion and favourite, and win every round in the process, was a huge win. Huge.

 

Wrong fighter atsch

 

I've been to the pub this afternoon and things got slightly out of hand whoops