The Top 5 Wins Of This Century

In no particular order:

Jones vs Ruiz
Barrera vs Hamed
Lewis vs Klitschko
Hopkins vs Taylor
Calzaghe vs Kessler

Honorable mention:
Kostya vs Hatton
Hopkins vs Tito
Hopkins vs Tarver
Taylor vs Pavlik

 

Because Lewis and Vitaly without a doubt are the two best HWs of the last ... many ... years.

Kostya-Hatton? Well, Hatton is a rather limited guy with great stamina and Kostya was over the hill.
Hopkins-Tito? Well, that was a physical mismatch righ from the word go.
Taylor-Pavlik is an evenly matched fight between two of the three best MWs. Good, but they may not be the two best fighters to fight at HW for several years - like Lewis-Vitaly were.
Hopkins-Tarver. Old vs Old actor. It was a nice win for Hopkins, but considerign the circumstances we should not overestimate it.

 

ODH v Vargas
Hopkins v Trinidad
Moralas v Pac
Jones v Ruiz
Trinidad v Mayorga

 

All good choices - I might squeez Morales victory (even tho its close & debatable) over Barrera when you consider that both are 2 of the best ever & both were at their peak + it was 1 of the best ever fights in ANY century.

The closeness of the fight might keep it out as the thread is more about the winners performance I suppose but the way both men performed would have earned them a KO victory vs any other fighter in the world at that weight at that time so I dont think the performance of the loser should take anything away from that of the winner - if anything it should add points.

:thumbsup

 

hatton tszyu beats most of these , can't believe people haven't mentioned it

 

wtf? Lewis for sure but Vitali never every beat anybody of significance. Wlad, Ruiz, Byrd, Tua all beat more and better opponents, not to mention Holyfield. Bunch of **** what you wrote there.

Nobody thought Hatton would win, Tszyu was the p4p number 3. That´s a huge win. Hindsight is a *****.

Yeah, that´s why Tito was heavier for the fight than Hopkins, that´s why Tito was the heavy favourite. Tito totally ****ed up the second best mw shortly before that fight. Mismatch, right.

The Vitali argument is nonsense. Pavlik´s win in the first fight also was much more decisive and beeing a top mw counts for more than beeing a top hw due to the hw division beeing traditionally not as deep as the mw division.

wtf? The former mw champion coming of two losses moves up 2 weightclasses destroying a top10 p4p fighter and number 1 lhw in the werld at age 42 is a huge achievement.

Boy, you really should shut up. You make a big fool out of yourself.

 

Nice. :thumbsup I can only add a few:

Barrera UD12 Hamed (I'd put that above PacMan's victory since Naseem was unbeaten and looked unbeatable - just like Tito in the Hopkins fight)
Forrest UD12 (almost KO2) Mosley (what a performance, P4P#1 was badly beaten)
Campbell UD12 Diaz (what a truly stunning performance from the old fox, although Diaz wasn't a P4P-er or a superstar)
Calzaghe UD12 Lacy (it was a huge fight at the time and Lacy was very heavily favored. Not P4P-ers before the fight, but this one gets a spot because of the unreal domination, something I've never seen before)
Tarver KO2 Jones (what a great way to get revenge - of course Roy wasn't the best Roy, but still, something that changed the way a lot of people was looking at boxing - that includes me) OR Toney TKO12 Jirov (what a great comeback from a fighter of the 90s)

 

Yet another great post PACFAN84:good

 

Tarver KO Jones was a shocker