1. Naoya Inoue 2. Oleksandr Usyk 3. Dmitry Bivol 4. Terence Crawford 5. Artur Beterbiev 6. Clenelo Alvaroids 7. Vasiliy Lomachenko 8. Roman Gonzalez 9. Errol Spence Jr. 10. Tyson Fury Had to say goodbye to my good friend Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin.
The winner of Usyk/Fury, Bivol/Beterbiev, or Spence/Crawford would be my definitive #1. Right now it's really a toss up because no one has a huge staple win besides Fury, but I don't really put super HW's on my p4p. Based off eye test and resume(excluding super HW's like Fury, Joshua, Wilder). 1. Spence 2. Canelo 3. Crawford 4. Inoue 5. Usyk 6. Beterbiev 7. Bivol 8. Shakur 9. Haney 10. Jermell Honorable Mentions: Ennis, Vergil Ortiz, David Benavidez, Teofimo, Loma, Bam Rodriguez.
1. Naoya Inoue 2. Oleksandr Usyk 3. Dmitry Bivol 4. Canelo Alvarez 5. Artur Beterbiev 6. Terence Crawford 7. Josh Taylor 8. Errol Spence Jr. 9. Tyson Fury 10. Shakur Stevenson 11. Jermell Charlo 12. Kenshiro Teraji 13. Devin Haney 14. Vasiliy Lomachenko 15. Kazuto Ioka
Usyk is the clear number 1. Spence and Crawford shouldn't even be on the list based on how scared of each other they seem to be.
Something like this... 1. Oleksandr Usyk 2. Naoya Inoue 3. Dmitry Bivol 4. Saul Alvarez 5. Josh Taylor 6. Vasyl Lomachenko 7. Errol Spence Jr 8. Gennadiy Golovkin 9. Terence Crawford 10. Kazuto Ioka 11. Roman Gonzalez 12. Kenshiro Teraji 13. Tyson Fury 14. Artur Beterbiev 15. Juan Francisco Estrada 16. Jermell Charlo 17. Anthony Joshua 18. Devin Haney 19. Emanuel Navarrete 20. Shakur Stevenson
1. Usyk 2. Inoue 3. Bivol 4. Ginger nuts 5. Beterbiev 6. Spence 7. Loma 8. Crawford 9. Fury 10. Estrada
I come across a lot of people who have Spence ranked #1 and even many outlets like ESPN, The Ring and CBS have him ridiculously high in their rankings ESPN have him #3 behind Terry and Inoue The Ring have him #4 behind Usyk, Inoue and Terry CBC have him at #2 behind Inoue So that's two outlets who have him above Usyk which is absolutely insane This content is protected Errol is a one-weight three-belt unified champion All bar two of his fights were in the US and one of the ones that wasn't was in Canada and he was fighting a South African. So he's only fought in his opponent's country/backyard once and, as is often the case when a top American travels, when he did that they wanted to award him a medal of honor for it He's beaten 7 world champions in 28 fights But he's only fought two career 147 pounder world champions since winning his first world title and one of them was his title winning effort against Brook and he struggled badly against both. Everyone else world class he's fought was a a career 140 pounder or a blown up 135 Mikey Brook Porter All career 140 pounders or a blown up 135 Mikey Danny Mikey Ugas Peterson Algieri who was the first world champion he fought And they're all either featherfists (Algieri and Peterson) or average punchers, especially at that weight. Mikey is a big puncher but his KO% above 135 = 0% Danny can crack but he's only stopped 4 of his 10 opponents at 147 Peterson was the WBA regular champ at 147, winning it against Avanesyan Danny won the WBC title at 147 but that was PBC smoke & mirrors because he fought for the vacant belt against Robert Guerrero who was 2-2 in his last 4 fights, both losses wide (Floyd & Thurman) and even worse he could very easily have been 1-3 because a lot of fans thought he lost his previous fight against Aaron Martinez who dropped him So Guerrero earned his world title shot vs Danny for going 2-2 in his previous 4, going like a death against a D level in his previous fight in a fight many had him losing. His other win (his only non highly controversial one) during that four fight sequence was against Yoshihiro Kamegai Now compare that to Usyk Usyk is a two-weight champion Undisputed at CW Three-belt unified at HW He won, unified, and defended all his world titles at CW in his opponent's backyards sans his first defence which was on neutral soil He won all his belts at HW in his opponent's backyard Defended them on neutral soil He's beaten 6 world champions in 20 fights All the world champions he's fought bar one were career CWs or HWs in AJ's case not career LHWs or blown up SMWs who'd come up and none of them were regular champs. The only one who'd come up from LHW was Bellew but he was the poster boy for weight bullying and was very much a natural CW who looked like a vampire on crack on the scales at LHW, and he won his only world title at CW knocking out one of the best CWs of this generation who is the current WBC champ And in complete contrast to Spence he's fought a ton of punchers and they were all career CWs or career HWs ie. his size or way bigger We've never seen Spence put in a dominant performance against a career 147 pounder world champion yet and he's only fought two of them. He looks great against all those career 140s and blown up 135 Mikey who've come up whom his size, strength, physicality, and power are huge assets for him but on the two occasions he fought career 147 pounders world champions he struggled badly and even though he's barely fought any punchers he's been hurt a bunch of times We've not only seen Usyk dominate career CW world champions his size many times we've seen him do so against giant career HWs way way bigger and heavier than him. In fact, Usyk has not only dominated most of the world champions he's fought he's toyed with them in their backyards and he's never been hurt by any of the big/huge punchers he's fought How is this even a question? There is zero argument for having him above Usyk other than him being American