Top 20 fighters of the decade

Hopkins at 3. Ludicrous. Try a dozen places lower.

 

what? he has beaten trinidad, delahoya, tarver, wright, pavlik.. and had very close fights with taylor twice and calzaghe.. who all could ve gone his way... and he unified the middleweight belts and hold on to them for 5 years

 

i wouldn't argue against it. i'd probably switch joe calzaghe's with Ricardo Lopez. but it's good

 

Hopkins too high, Hatton too high...De La Hoya too low. Just a start to the criticisms. Awful list.

 

And naturally Calzaghe who unified the super middleweight title,was world champion for 11 years,beat Hopkins in America,retired unbeaten, he`s several places lower!! Your bias is embarrassing.

 

Not bad, James Toney should be on there though

 

i wasn´t arguing about calzaghe´s place.. only your statement that hopkins should be around the 15th place

 

Jermain Taylor? Ricky Hatton?

 

Raul Marquez?

 

Calzaghe was nothing more than a paper champ for the first half of the decade.

 

The paper champ beat Hopkins in the States. Name any other fighter who retired with a perfect record after 11 year a world champion and 15 years a pro? If Calzaghe was a paper champ then Hopkins was nothing more than a paper champ during his title reign also.

 

Ricardo Lopez beat Vorapin and Petelo in 2000 and 2001, and then retired, already clearly faded by that point. I don't understand how that qualifies him as a top 20 fighter in this decade. You could obviously argue such a placing in the 90's, but he was just putting the finishing touches on his career at the turn of the century. Lewis is a lot more deserving of a high placing than Lopez, despite the fact that he himself was starting to slow by the early years of the decade.