Which ten active boxers have the best resumes - in what order - and who's top?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by JonOli, Jul 26, 2008.


  1. JonOli

    JonOli Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Not sure Hopkins should be that high; but he will have p4p prime Pavlik to nail on there as well.
     
  2. DINAMITA

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    As I said, not too sure about the order, it's a hard thing to evaluate when you are considering wins, good performances, bad performances, and losses, versus name on the record and the condition that the name in question came to the fight in (ie age, weight, form issues).

    I would place B-Hop above Winky, so I wouldn't have him any lower than 5 on this list even if I did revise it. I have heard Hop's resume dissed on here many a time (have even heard it compared unfavourably to Joe "Two Decent Wins in 11 Years" Calzaghe!), but when you look at the names on there that I've wrote, he has been in there with the best guys available, and won more often than not. I personally give him more credit than most for the Trinidad stoppage (Tito was 40-0(34) going into that fight, had stopped Vargas & Joppy in his last 2, and stands 5'11", has a 72" in reach and weighed in a pound and a half heavier than Hop! so he was a full-sized power-punching middleweight despite what anyone says), the Tarver victory (coming off 2 losses, jumping 2 weight divisions, and dominating the linear LHW champion at over 40 years old), the performance in the Calzaghe loss (IMO Hop controlled the fight, made Calzaghe so ineffective he was practically impotent, landed every significant punch in the fight, but just didn't have the energy/stamina/workrate to match his superior skills), and the stoppage of Glen Johnson (often forgotten, but no mean feat), so I stand by my choice of Hopkins.

    Where would you have him? Do you agree with my other choices??
     
  3. CJLightweight

    CJLightweight Lightweight Kingpin Full Member

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    i thought this was about active fighters why barrera, holyfield, jones?

    my list..

    1. ODLH
    2. Toney
    3. Hopkins
    4. Pac
    5. Wright
    6. Mosley
    7. Casamayor
    8. Cotto
    9. Klitscho
    10. Calzaghe
     
  4. JonOli

    JonOli Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It's very hard to make an absolutely definitive list, and to be honest I don't think my boxing knowledge of the current scene, at the moment, is extensive enough to come up with an absolutely definitive one.​

    With Bernard, I suppose it goes with how much value you place on his wins over "the smaller guys".​

    I do like where your coming from though. I too would give a point to someone who faced the best but lost, even be it badly; rather then give a point to a boxer who didn't make the effort, but remained undefeated. Obviously that boxer, who lost, must have quality elsewhere to gain kudos.​
     
  5. Brian123

    Brian123 ESB WORLD CHAMPION Full Member

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    Pacman, DLH, Barerra, Cotto