Ranking the greatest fighters of the 21st century

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  1. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    @collie - great list but you can go ahead and rank rigo over donaire now!
     
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  2. KO-KING

    KO-KING Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Whats hopkin's best wins this century, Trinidad, pavlik, Pascal, tarver??

    Thats not really a great resume, its the fact that he has gone on to the age he has, but if you dont count that, then its really not all that good
     
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  3. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    hopkins never lost clearly in the 21st century. his only clear loss in his career is vs roy jones in '93.

    hopkins never ducked anybody and his best 5 wins are all dominating performances.
     
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  4. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    the fact that floyd mayweather jr showed decline at the age of 37 vs maidana shows how great hopkins' longevity is.
     
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  5. Collie

    Collie Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :nono

    Rigos win was a great one, but Donaire's resume overall is better at this stage
     
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  6. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    i forgot all about de la hoya but to be fair he lost to my top 3
     
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  7. Mind Reader

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    We also need to note that he immediately dropped back down and beat the #1 LHW in Tarver. Which is one of Hopkins' best wins of the 2000's on, but I think Roy beat the more hungry motivated version of Tarver, though it was a much closer fight, I rate that win over Hopkins' win.

    Very few have accomplished the feat of moving down from HW to LHW and beating the top fighter, and it gets underrated because Roy looked human for the first time.. But it was a very good win.
     
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  8. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    it was a close fight.

    hopkins shut out tarver and knocked him down once

    hopkins was huge underdog vs tarver, roy jones was favourite vs tarver

    hopkins was coming off 2 official losses and jumping up 2 weight classes. he wasn't a big middleweight - weighed 156 vs oscar.

    i cant rank roy jones' win over tarver better than hopkins' win over tarver based on that
     
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  9. Staminakills

    Staminakills Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    i cant have paq in the top 3/4 due to too many losses and controversial dec he got.
     
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  10. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    Have to disagree

    He ducked the RJJ rematch and ducked Joe back in 2000
     
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  11. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    you mean ducked joe when his goal was to have 20 middleweight title defences?

    and ducked the jones rematch when don king wanted to take 30%?
     
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  12. Collie

    Collie Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    What 3 or 4 do you have in front of him? Do you not count his wins in his favour?
     
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  13. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    i dont even know why you bother to respond to *****s, i have them all on my ignore list.....lol ....not even joking
     
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  14. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    No is was a 3 fight deal with Showtime and Joe was to be apart of it .

    And ducked Jones when he called. Hopkins out 60/40 I'll kick your ass :lol:
     
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  15. Collie

    Collie Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Very few people on here anymore to actually discuss boxing rationally, back in the day I'd have a good few insightful responses to such a list, positive or negative but actually talking sense.
     
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