My updated top15 -June 24th 2008- Champion: Vacant 01- Mikkel Kessler (WBA) 02- Lucian Bute (IBF) 03- Librado Andrade 04- Sakio Bika 05- Carl Froch 06- Denis Inkin 07- Edison Miranda 08- Fulgencio Zuniga 09- Alejandro Berrio 10- Vitali Tsypko 11- Jeff Lacy 12- Andre Ward 13- Andre Dirrell 14- Allan Green 15- Jean Pascal *I made many changes. I'll update again next month.
Maxime I like your list but think there are a couple of positions that are a bit off. My top 17: Champion: Vacant 01- Mikkel Kessler (WBA) 02- Anthony Mundine (if we should still rank him, which is not certain) 03- Lucian Bute (IBF) 04- Librado Andrade 05- Carl Froch 06- Denis Inkin 07- Jeff Lacy 08- Edison Miranda 09- Fulgencio Zuniga 10- Alejandro Berrio 11- Sakio Bika 12- Vitali Tsypko 13- Mads Larsen 14- Andre Ward 15- Andre Dirrell 16- Allan Green 17- Jean Pascal
It's a deep divison with a lot of potential. But I don't think it's one of the best divisions because there's no top15 p4p boxer in the division. And the biggest problem is that its best boxers don't face each other.
1 Joe Calzaghe ------------------- 2 Mikkel Kessler 3 Lucian Bute ------------------- 4 Anthony Mundine 5 Carl Froch 6 Jermain Taylor 7 Librado Andrade -------------------- 8 Edison Miranda 9 Denis Inkin 10 Jean Pascal 11 Fulgencio Zuniga 12 Sakio Bika 13 Jeff Lacy 14 Allan Green 15 Alejandro Berrio 16 Dimitri Sartison 17 Vitali Tsypko -------------------- 18 Andre Dirrell 19 Andre Ward 20 Karoly Balzsay 21 Peter Manfredo Jr 22 Jaidon Codrington 23 Victor Oganov 24 Jean Paul Mendy 25 Anthony Hanshaw Rushed it. It's appalling I know. :yep
Miranda at 7? Is the division that shallow?:think Bika better than Froch/Inkin? Is that based on the fact that we know how Bika does against the best or on the fact that you'd pick him to beat Froch/Inkin, Maxime?:think
Bika better than Froch/Inkin? Is that based on the fact that he lost against Bute? Andrade at #3: Is that based on the fact that he will probably face Bute?
Yes...unlike most of the other good posters, he never takes himself too seriously, he doesn't run agendas, he is respectful of everyone's view, etc. A bit like sean!
I have to admit that I thought the same when I saw the list. It is a little too conveniently taylored to make Bute look good. Having said that Maxime is a good poster overall, but he sure does like Bute.