Top 30 fighters of the Last 30 years?

you can't have JMM above JCC and SRL, then have Pac at the bottom. It just doesn't work.

 

(in no order)
....
Michael Spinks
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler
Thomas Hearns
Alexis Arguello
Roy Jones Jr
Bernard Hopkins
Manny Pacquiao
Julio Cesar Chavez
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Mike McCallum
Jeff Fenech
Roberto Duran
Wilfredo Gomez
Wilfred Benitez
Pernell Whitaker
Larry Holmes
Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Oscar De La Hoya
Aaron Pryor
Azumah Nelson
Salvador Sanchez
Erik Morales
Tito Trinidad
Marco Antonio Barrera
James Toney
Hilario Zapata
Jung Koo Chang


Whatever...that's my best crack at it. I probably missed some obvious ones or didnt think of some real deserving fighters.

 

When you see Kosta ahead of Calzaghe, you realise the hatred the guy has.

 

Finaly someone selects Lewis. Its utter madness not to have him in.

 

if only calzaghe was american would he find his way into more lists then:??

 

My List (in order)

Roberto Duran
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler

Julio Cesar Chavez
Pernell Whitaker
Manny Pacquiao

Michael Spinks
Larry Holmes
Alexis Arguello
Salvador Sanchez
Thomas Hearns
Roy Jones Jr

Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Bernard Hopkins
Evander Holyfield
Oscar De La Hoya
Marco Antonio Barrera
Erik Morales
Mike Tyson
Aaron Pryor

Wilfredo Gomez
Lennox Lewis
Wilfred Benitez
Ricardo Lopez
Shane Mosley
Felix Trinidad
Juan Manuel Marquez
Azumah Nelson
Mike McCallum
Orlando Canizales


Honorable mention:

Joe Calzaghe
Kostya Tszyu
Ronald Wright
Michael Nunn
Meldrick Taylor
Hector Camacho
Donald Curry
James Toney

 

Erik Morales should be on that list, maybe Johnny Tapia too oh Mark Johnson.

 

Anyone can argue for him to be in there and it isnt a silly thing to argue over. You can see both sides of the argument for him.

 

Damn Tszyu is overrated once agains ****ing Morales is a league above him. Arguello:think Is it cause most of his carreer was in the 70s. Azumah Nelson should be in here. In fact id rate quite a few guys not on this list over Tzyu like Tapia,Mark Johnson,Jeff Chandler,Euesebio Pedroza,Dwight Braxton, Maybe Terry Norris And where the hell is Michael Spinks!!!!

 

Any list that contains Bernard Hopkins has to contain Calzaghe.

In my estimation, Calzaghe is a Top 15 athlete of the last 30 years. He's one of the few that retired undefeated having cleaned out his entire division, captured belts in two weight classes, had a record number of defenses, beat fighters from an underdog position, beat over 10 current/future/former world champions, maintained a top 2 position in his weight class on Ring for over a decade and a P4P Top 10 position for 5 years.

Anyone beleiving differently is just expressing hatred, the guy doesn't have the "best" resume but his resume easily beats Fenech, Tszyu, Winky Wright, Barrera, Toney, Trinidad and unlike any of them, he never had the loss.

 

1980-now... OK

I'm gonna brainstorm first-

The first names to pop in my head are:

Leonard
Hearns
Hagler
Benitez
Duran
Holmes
M. Spinks
Holyfield
Tyson
Lewis

Qawi
Chavez
Whitacker
Nelson
Toney
McCallum
DeLaHoya
Mosley
Trinidad
Jones

Hopkins
Mayweather
Pacquiao
Marquez
Barrera
Morales
Lopez
Carbajal
Gonzalez
Hill

I'll have to get back on this later

 

My criteria

1. Notable Wins
2. # of Titles won
3. # of Defenses
4. Did they unify?
5. Did they lose? At which point in career?
6. How dominant were they in their prime?
7. H2H prime vs prime arguments at their best weight class
8. Did they earn titles in more than one weight class

My top 15, the first 5 or so could interchange

1. Roy Jones Jr
2. Pernell Whitaker
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Mike Tyson
5. Floyd Mayweather Jr
6. Larry Holmes
7. Michael Spinks
8. Marvin Hagler
9. Roberto Duran
10. Thomas Hearns
11. Joe Calzaghe
12. Bernard Hopkins
13. Wladimir Klitschko
14. Evander Holyfield
15. Manny Pacquaio

 

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Everyone else.

 

You forgot about the legend that is kermit cintron:happy