Rating of the Heavyweights of New Millenium decade

Holyfield was completely shot in both of those fights, and its debatable as to weather or not Evander deserved the nod against Valuev. At best I'd say the fight was probably worthy of a draw verdict, but there are many who scored it going in favor of either man.

In any case, James Toney's heavyweight record between 2003-2009 was 6-2-1-2, plus a no contest to boot. I know that you write off his NC with Rahman and first loss to Peter as either being crap verdicts or robberies, but like it or not, that's the way the cookie crumbles. You should also note that he had very close split decsion wins over the mediocre Danny Batchelder and Fres Oquendo. I did not see these fights, but given their close scoring, I bet that there are probably some who would just as willingly call them robberies, as you have called some of his losses. Losing to Peter twice and the inability to get a victory over hasim Rahman in two meetings, plus beating an ancient Holyfield does not alot him any respectable rating during this time frame, in my opinion.

 

I had him a draw with byrd and a win over ruiz.

Had I scored it like you, golota and brewster both make my top 5.

 

Interesting, i thought Golota beat Byrd more clearly than he beat Ruiz.

Perhaps not in rounds, but in terms of action within the rounds.

The ruiz fight was very scrappy with loads of rabbit punches & clinches.

 

Maybe it's perception and preference?

For example, times when golota had byrd on the ropes, missed about 10 punches, byrd james a solid counter and spins out, I score that exchange to byrd.

When byrd threw, he landed, when golota threw, by and large, he missed or scored only partial connects.

My rbr is on the scorecard thread.

 

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