Which fighters today, above all else, want to prove they're the best?

until pavlik becomes champ then it becomes all about the money go ask taylor

 

Taylor may have made comments about money but at the end of the day he took the fight that the people wanted most against a dangerous guy.

 

Yeah. In all truth, love him or hate him, of all of the champions Jermaine Taylor has probably defended his title against the hardest competition. Hopkins rematch, Winky, Ouma and Spinks (who, while outside of their best weightclass, were still world class fighters in their own right).

I'd say Wladimir Klitschko is a good candidate. He genuinely seems to want to fight the best.

Floyd Mayweather gets an honorable mention for the WORST when it comes to wanting to prove he is the best.

 

Wlad Klitschko.
Pacquiao.
Mosley.
Winky.
Cotto.
Williams (Granted, he had nothing to lose fighting Margo, but I tink he wants it big time. He showed a lot of heart).
Hatton (Same as Williams. He always shows heart and I think he honestly wants the big names on his record).


Money has probably ruined boxing.

 

Miranda has a better claim towards fighting the best than Pavlik does, and it ain't even close.

Going from Eastman to the undefeated champion Abraham in Germany to a warmup fight in Gibbs, then straight to the undefeated Allen Green, and then the undefeated contender Pavlik a short while later.

Now that's impressive...even if he lost 2 out of 5.

 

He's not doing it for his legacy or anything like that though. It's all about money for him. If fighting a no name journeyman made him the same money as fighting someone like Winky, he wouldn't think twice about picking the journeyman.

Someone like Wlad would choose the better fighter, I think.

 

I don't care too much about his motivation really.

Money has ****ed boxing up so much and prevented so many awesome fights that when money causes someone to want to fight and to take on the best, it's a good thing.

 

cotto duh

 

Off the top of my head. Feel free to copy, alter, and add.

Heavy: Wlad, Peter, Chagaev, Ibragimov, and, sorry, but Ruiz, who will fight anyone anywhere any time.

Cruiser: Darnell Wilson.

Light heavy: Glen Johnson, Chad Dawson, BHop

Super Middle: Kessler

Middle: Pavlik

Light middle: Dzinziruk (sp?)

Welter: Cotto

Jr. Welter: Malignaggi

Lightweight: Juan Diaz

Super feather: Pacman, Marquez

Anything below, I don't follow too closely.

 

Dzinzdruk or however u spell it is doing what most Universum fighters do and that's stay in Germany making defenses against marginal opposition. That doesn't sound overly ambitious to me.

Chad Dawson is a very good pick though. He went after Adamke and now supposedly he's gonna fight Diaconu. That's called manning up and facing the best.

 

Here's 2 who don't:

- PBF

- JT

 

Dzinzdruk is being ducked. There's no point in leaving Germany if nobody will fight him. Funny how American fighters never get **** for staying on American soil.

 

I think Dawson is going to Montreal to fight Diaconu but that's besides the point. Nobody outside of Germany knows who Sergei is. You need people to know who u are in order to be ducked.

 

Chico Corralas was this guy. :yep