What is your SMW top 25?

No, none of them will become undisputed, but one of them will become lineal champion.

 

Good point,boxfan! I would probably rank Stieglitz ahead of Berrio,too.
He took the Columbian out in their first encounter,and seemed to be on the way to win the second encounter when he was caught by one of Berrio ' s haymaker.I,too,think that Stieglitz is better than Berrio.

By the way a lot of people here are quite high on Mundine who had a bloody close fight with American journeyman Manny Siaca.
Last week I watched Silvio Branco live on the undercard of Solis/Gamboa/Samil Sam.He showed a very decent performance against a teak tough cookie from Brasil.He is an old geezer,but still able to beat some of the fighters of all the lists which can be found on this tread.
Branco won every round of his encounter with Manny Siaco not that long ago teaching him a lesson in boxing.
I for my part wouldnt favour Mundine very much in a fight against that old Italian geezer.

 

Mendy has no promoter, he is not well ranked and it's difficult for him to finnd a fight. In France he has always been avoided like plague by Chanet, Sahnoune, Amar etc. In Europe he had done enough to secure a shot at the EBU belt or at least the EBU-EU belt but he didn't obtain it. In the US he was unknown and he could enter the tournament organized by Shaw who was not very happy to see that the boy he had given the training camp of a world champ and everything to win was not able to dominate him...
He works as an educator for the municipality of Levallois.

 

Some people are high on Mundine (me included) because had excellent performances against Danny Green and Sam Soliman. Unfortunatly he likes to space those performances against mediocre opposition.

 

Have you seen Mundine after his fight with Siaca? He has improved incredibly much! To judge him by that fight alone would be the same as judging Braehmer solely on his first fight with Veit for instance.

Regarding Branco, he is a lightheavyweight and haven't fought at SMW for 7 years. When he beat Siaca, who had not done much after the beating Kessler gave him, the fight took place at LHW.

 

I'm surprised no one has given me fits for rating Zuniga this high.

Personally, I think he has looked very impressive since moving up to 168lbs.

I'd love to see Bute make a title defense against this guy.

 

I'll take objection to that one. Yes, Mundine lost to worse fighters in the past; however, his situation is similar to Kermit Cintron's - he was a raw fighter early on who was immensely talented but had little ring experience, and got in over his head way too quickly. Since his losses, he's improved immensely, and has proved himself more recently with the most respectable showing anyone's put up against Kessler and dominant wins over Green (which nobody else has ever done) and a more dominant win over Soliman than what Winky Wright was able to do. Mundine's come into his own, and while he's inactive, he has a better recent resume than Lacy and I think a matchup between the two would be an almost even odds fight.

I agree with you generally that the guys from about 7 on to about 17 (my third tier) are fairly interchangeable. Mads Larsen is the start of the 4th tier for me. For instance, while his list looks very different than mine, I have absolutely no qualms with Boxfan's list.

 

I wouldn't. Zuniga is in many ways a poor mans Andrade in my eyes. If you can box, are well conditioned, have a decent chin and don't buckle under pressure then he shouldn't pose any problems. Bute have all these assets, Oganov didn't have any of them.

Since you mentioned it, I do think placing Zuniga in top 10 is a stretch. I could understand if you had placed him in top 15, but that is just my opinion, I'm not thrashing your list or anything.

 

Good list:good maybe Braehmer and Tsypko should swap
Larsen and Manfredo aswell

 

Well,I wouldnt bet any money on Branco in a fight against Mundine.However,I was quite impressed to watch him against a tough cookie from Brazil.
Branco is a bit over the hill,but still no pushover.

Yes,I saw some rounds of Mundine's encounter with Green,and thanks to a Danish poster I was able to watch Mundine vs Kessler.
Mundine for sure is a force at supermiddle,but he is beatable.
He was knocked out by feather fisted German runner Sven Ottke,and looked like **** against Siaca.He has improved since then,but I am still not that high on him.
Kessler would beat him again,Inkin would also win against him,and there are some names which come to my mind whom I would give a good chance to upset the Australin.
Tsypko is one of the names.

 

Here's the top five from the ESB Brains Trust (K2Gay,Tool Pretty,Unbeatable Floyd,CandyBoyStandi,Skills So Shite)

1.Lacy
2.Mundine
3.Bika
4.Green
5.Codrington