Top 10 Cruiserweights Today! 1 vs 1.. These are my rankings

Pretty much this, I might have Cieslak a bit higher given that he and Makabu fought to a point they showed they're on the same level, I still need to score that one though. I'd drop Lerena much further down too. Something like this.

1. Briedis
2. Dorticos
3. Glowacki
4. Makabu
5. Goulamirian
6. Cieslak
7. Mchunu
8. Okolie
9. Merhy
10. Lerena

 

Eh Mchunu (Lebedev, Chambers, Durodola, Bolotniks, Oosthuizen) has a better resumé than Cieslak and Lerena (Nielsen, Kalenga, Kucher, Arslan) done more than Okolie (Askin, Ngabu), Merhy (Szello) and Cieslak (Kalenga, Durodola) too. Lerena may not be the best but he is just a shade outside of being a top 5 guy. One big win is all he needs to be placed there as he's done all the groundwork already. Following that Arslan win he should be at #1 or #2 in the IBF and WBA so that should come soon.

 

Don't understand why people dismiss Lerena so much. He is pretty solid.

 

Yeah he was totally aethered by Dorticos. I was really begging for it to come too because he was very badly annoying me in that one.

 

It seems we have a lot of defending to do on his part because not many seem to rate him. In fact he seems oddly disliked. I know he avoided taking a fight with Kashinsky for an IBF mandatory but that can't be the only reason why. Some close or dodgy decisions? Golovaschenko was close enough but a clear win to me. Nielsen was the closest to losing but again it was reasonable to have it Lerena's way. In my opinion the notion he is getting a load of gifts is quite far fetched. He's earned his keep and it hasn't been easy.