Who are the elite boxers today?

Jacobs is elite.

Golovkin is elite.

 

On a historical level the only one that really come to mind is Usyk.

Literally the only active fighter in their prime right now who I could comfortably pick to hang in there with past greats.

Everybody else just has a lack of resume and great opponents.

How do I know if Crawford can hang in there with past great fighters? His resume compared to theirs is garbage.

 

Seriously?
You do know that a lot of the "professional boxers" are actually Joe Smo of the streets who make a couple of extra bucks getiing beat up in the ring, right?!
There are boxers out there who never even made it out of the 2nd round in 30+ fights, just because they simply can't box and actually can't even take a decent shot.

Elite boxers are the ones that fight in at least decent divisions and then still are extremely hard to beat.

 

Yes I did. But I had to react on your opening.
Mainly because it seems that some boxfans still seem to believe that only talented people box professionally, while for a huge portion it's just a way to make money regardless if they are actually even remotely capable.

 

Go back to the football Forum mate. Linares is not elite? Are you mad ?

 

this is just insane!

 

Joshua is a real elite fighter. He's the endboss. It's like heavyweight boxers all over the world are fighting, working out, dreaming. AJ already lives their dream. While they struggle to fight in front of 5000 people, AJ is selling out stadiums. 90000 people in the audience, hundreds of millions all over the world in front of the TV. His pictures hang on posters in Europe, Dubai and Hong Kong.

What's more important is his skillset, his power and a flawless record. He has beaten Top opponents and even living legends. He's the Ali and Tyson of our era.

 

loma, mikey, crawford and spence.
these guys are operating above everyone else. these are the only guys who make very good fighters look like they dont belong.

 

The elites of each division:

Fury
Bellew
Buatsi
Ryder
Saunders
Pigford
Kelly
Taylor
Campbell
Quigg
frampton
Burnett
Dogboe (British)
Burnett
Yafai
Selby

 

I was looking up some boxers records the other day on boxrec, seeing who they beat to gauge their competitive level. There was a guy on there who was 6-136 or something. I'm used to seeing guys with 3-24 type records but this takes the cake.

 

For me I'd have these as proven elite level boxers:

Anthony Joshua
Tyson Fury (though he's currently given some benefit of the doubt after two years out till the Wilder fight when we see where he's at)
Oleksandr Usyk
Gennady Golovkin
Saul Alvarez
Keith Thurman (again benefit of the doubt due to injury)
Erroll Spence
Sean Porter
Vasyl Lomachenko
Mikey Garcia
Terence Crawford
Leo Santa Cruz
Carl Frampton
Naoya Inoue
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
Roman Gonzalez
Juan Fran Estrada

The following are borderline and could squeak. In the next couple of fights:

Deontay Wilder
Mauris Briedis
Murat Gassiev
Eleider Alvarez
Dimitriy Bivol
Adonis Stevenson
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
Sergei Kovalev
Callum Smith
Daniel Jacobs
Sergei Derevyanchenko
Billy Joe Saunders
Jermal Charlo
Jermal Charlo
Jared Hurd
Erislandy Lara
Danny Garcia
Manny Pacquiao
Regis Prograis
Josh Taylor
Jorge Linares
Guillerno Rigondeux
Josh Warrington
Donnie Nietes
Miguel Berchelt
Luis Nery (due to cheating)
Gary Russel Jnr
Oscar Valdez
Chaperon Moonsri

 

In no particular order Loma Crawford Spence GGG Canelo Joshua Inoue Mikey Usyk