+ The Super Middleweight Top 10 Thread +

Because he's American and because he has an influential promoter.

 

Champ = Vacant
1. Bute
2. Ward
3. Abraham
4. Kessler
5. Andrade
6. Froch
7. Dirrell
8. Bika
9. Stieglitz
10. Tsypko/Balzsay?

 

Champ: Vacant
01. Bute
02. Ward
03. Abraham
04. Kessler
05. Dirrell
06. Froch
07. Andrade
08. Bika
09. Stieglitz
10. Balzsay

 

Yeah, that is also a very good ranking. Possibly even better than mine.

 

It's similar. Just a few changes.

 

We still don't know how good Dirrell can be. And what about Froch after the Kessler fight? Andrade will not go lower than 7th, whatever happens, I predict. Kessler should not go lower than 4th either, unless he doesn't stop sliding further. If he loses to Froch, it means he's probably done. He will then become irrelevant for the Champ slot, unfortunately. Here's hoping he comes back strong and puts the bad Ward loss behind him, but I wouldn't put my hopes up. He's not even close to being the fighter that put such good performances against Andrade and Calzaghe, unfortunately.

 

How do you justify Dirrell over Froch? Froch's resume is better (Taylor & 175lb belt holder Pascal) and h2h, while controversal, still beat Dirrell?

And Bika while not having the losses that Stieglitz has, he doesn't have as good of wins either.

 

I have Dirrell over Froch because in my opinion Dirrell won the fight and he made Froch look like an amateur.

Froch couldn't deal with Dirrell's movement. He couldn't even cut the ring.

 

well it's still a loss, i don't think you understand how rankings work

 

01. Abraham
02. Ward
03. Kessler
04. Bute
05. Taylor
06. Dirrell
07. Froch
08. Bika
09. Stieglitz
10. Balzsay

 

1. Bute
2. Ward
3. Abraham
4. Froch
5. Dirrell
6. Kessler
7. Andrade
8. Bika
9. Stieglitz
10. Green

 

1 Lucian Bute
2 Andre Ward
3 Arthur Abraham
4 Mikkel Kessler
5 Carl Froch
6 Andre Dirrell
7 Jermain Taylor
8 Librado Andrade
9 Sakio Bika
10 Robert Stieglitz

 

It's a stacked division and with all the champions in action recently, a few shocks and the super six, what is Calzaghe thinking?

 

well hopefully he is enjoying his retirement and all the nice $$$ he made. Calzaghe was undisputed when he retired - undefeated - hard to top that. However I think he'd give his right arm to be 5-7 years younger and in the super six... He always looked as he was enjoying himself in the ring - especially in the top fights - I think he would have loved the super six - but I also hope he stays retired!

 

1. Bute
2. Ward
3. Dirrell
4. Abraham
5. Kessler
6. Froch
7. Andrade
8. Bika
9. Stieglitz
10. ??