Top 5 Southpaws of the Past 20 Years

Pernell Whitaker obviously. Has to be in anyone's list of the top 5 southpaws of the past 20 years. Probably has to be in anyone's list of the top 5 southpaws of all-time.

Damn, can't really think of others. I'd give Michael Moorer a mention purely for being the first southpaw heavyweight champion, and being a natural light-heavy and former world title holder at 175 aswell.

Erm, maybe Winky Wright? I'd say he'd be in my top 5. Ruled at 154, equally adept at 160 aswell. You have to respect him as being a great southpaw on the basis he doesn't have much to back it up, sure he has a great defence, but he's made his career off that right jab.

I'm struggling with the others, thinking about Michael Nunn, but I'll come back to you.
I'm come

 

manny pacquiao needs to be on every list.

 

Pacquiao, Whitaker, Wright, Nunn, Moorer, Slappy Joe

Humberto Gonzalez fought both lefty and orthodox. He can be added to the list.

 

I forgot about Too Sharp and the Prince.

 

1. Pernell Whitaker
2. Michael Nunn
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Joe Calzaghe
5. Hector Camacho

No order.

 

Whitaker
Hagler
Pac
Galaxy
either one of Wright-Johnston-Hamed-Johnson.

 

i've definitely got winky wright ahead of nunn and camacho - there has to be one more better than these two but i can't think of him right now.

 

Past 20 years.

 

Of course Pacquiao. Wasn't thinking much into current fighters, only thought of Winky.

I'm tempted to say Jose Luis Ramirez, he was active within the last 20 years but his best days were way behind him.

Gonzalez is a good mention but even though he was switch hitting he was always more of an orthodox fighter.

Other names I can think of to fill my 5th spot on the list are guys like Nunn as I mentioned, Hamed, Jirov, Byrd, Zaragoza, Galaxy.

I can barely even think of any southpaws in the last 20 years.

EDIT: Forgot about Camacho, but I'm going to omit him like Ramirez on the basis that the main body of their work came before '89.

 

then take Hagler and Galaxy out and put Calzaghe and Wright.

 

Whittaker, Winky, Calzaghe, Pacquiao, Dawson - sorry never really properly saw the likes of Hagler or Camacho.

 

Listing Dawson among the best anything of the last 5 years let alone 20 years is ludicrous.

 

Best duckers of the last 20 years? (*cough* Diaconu)

Nah, I'm kidding, he'd batter Diaconu.

But I absolutely agree. Even if you haven't seen guys like Camacho & Hagler (even though Hagler can't be included, and Camacho's best work came before the 1989 cut-off date), you can't include Chad Dawson.