Rate the top 5 HW's resumes.

Joshua
Povetkin
Wilder
Pulev
Parker
Ortiz


1 and 2 are locks. Wilder, Pulev, Ortiz and Parker are pretty much interchangeable. Fury not ranked due to inactivity.

 

comparing resumes of someone at end of career with someone green isnt really fair.

Likewise let say we compare them all at age 25, then we see Joe Parker comes out top with one semi significant win, which doesnt really prove much either.

Perhaps a compromise in this situation, discount Parker and compare all the others at age 29-31.
1. Joshua - zero good wins, one legacy win, one other separate title win
2. Wilder - one title win, zero good wins.
3. Povetkin - zero good wins, zero title wins
4. Ortiz - zero wins of note
5. Pulev - zero wins at all

Parker - still doesnt count

not exactly a murderers row.

 

I'm fine with that rather than AJ being above Fury.

Furies win over Wald > AJ's over Wald
Slightly younger version and won quite clearly.
Prime Chisora > Oldish Takam
2014 Chisora > Whyte
Dom over Hammer I guess. That'll be a decent match-up.
SC > Martin
Johnson <> Johnson
Abell <> Molina

 

Joshua
Fury ( inactive but still second best resume for now with Klitchko win)
Povetkin
Parker
Wilder

 

AJ
Pov
Wilder
Parker
Ortiz

 

AJ for Wlad, Povetkin for overall depth of wins.
Parker
Ortiz
Wilder

Pulev isn't even a top ten fighter for me till he does something of note.

 

Can't see how people are putting Wilder over Parker

Takam, Fury and Ruiz are better than anything Wilder's faced.

 

1. Povetkin; yes he lost to Wlad but it was younger Wlad and his resume outside of that crap over the rest.

2. Joshua; average resume but a win over Wlad seals it.

3. Parker

4. Wilder

5. Ortiz.

For the record I'd have Fury at 2 if he does come back.

 

We are at a low point when the champions are not facing the best out there for the most part.

I'd say

Joshua
Povetkin
Parker

Those three have the top resumes. If Fury is active he rates. 5th might be Wilder.

 

Joshua - Win over Wlad plus good contender in Takam

Povetkin - Beat a closer to prime Takam but lost to Wlad. His resume is deeper than Joshua's so he could be number 1 if you think overall depth is more important than simply having the best win.

Parker - Takam and then wins over 2 undefeated prospects in Ruiz and H.Fury

Haye - He's past prime but this isn't about who's best it's overall reumse, he beat Valuev, a faded Ruiz and stopped a prime Chisora.

Wilder - Stiverne is his only decent win and even the quality of that is debatable as Stiverne basically imploded after winning the belt. He was never that good to begin with only beating Arreola and he was ill in the first fight and shot and overweight in the rematch.

Bellew - you could argue Bellew's win over a faded Haye was better than Wilder's win over Stiverne. But we really don't know what Haye has left. Maybe he's still better than Stiverne, he could likely KO the Stiverne we saw last weekend.

If Fury comes back I have him number 1. He beat a closer to prime Wlad and beat Chisora twice. It's not particularly deep but I think the Wlad win counts more than just beating a load of inferior fighters.

 

If Pulev haven't done anything of note, what have Ortiz done?

 

Good post, I forgot about Haye and Bellew who both have superior resumes to Wilder.

 

Pulev has some decent wins.
Stopping Ustinov
Clear victory over Chisora
TT coming of his wins vs Price.
He's one of the best jabs in the HW division, and he did very well vs Wlad(much better than Haye for example)

 

AJ`s win over the 41 year old Wlad is miles above all the other wins of these other unproven guys.