Who were the top five fighters of this decade, 2000-2009?

And you are so in the wrong you have realised it and are resulting to immature and predictable insults to try and maintain your pride. I'd like to receive answers as of my above questions, please.

 

Thats a fair arguement on Morales behalf, but I still think that beating Shane Mosley, Zab Judah, Josh Clotty, and formidable opponents such as Bailey, Quintana Abdullaeav, slicksters like Corley and Malignaggi, all in a concessive manner from 2002, is more impressive. Ayala and Kelley were not formidable challenges nor was Tapia really at the weight.
Its not just the names and titles that count, just ask Addie, he completely discounts Mayweathers titles.

 

Who's Bailey beat? Who's Abdullaeav beat? Who's Corley beat? It's become fashionable to beat the living **** out of Judah these days, everyone's done it, and Cotto nearly got knocked out in the process. If you want to list Bailey, Abdullaeav and Corley, why not list Enrique Sanchez, Jesus Salud, Kevin Kelly, and Robbie Peden? They were all former world champions.

 

Maybe your overating Hamed? Regardless of the win over Morales, that doesnt outshine the quantity of solid wins Cotto had at welterweight and junior welterweight against bigger strong opponents. Cotto has belts in two divisions, he hasnt finished his career yet to even compare it to Barrera. Mosley was old???, yet he just completely dominated Margarito, Id say that puts Cottos win up there as pretty signficant.

 

No because some were smaller opponents coming up. Who cares who they beat? Josh Clottey doesnt have a lot of significant wins, but that doesnt detract from him being a dangerous world class fighter. Peden couldnt crack an egg, Kelley was shot to pieces in the late 90's after his fight with Gonzalez.
Abdullaev beat Cotto in the olympics, I dont know if you saw his fight with Cotto, but an awesome fight, display of heart, will and skill on both fighters parts and a significant win on Cottos part against a tough game opponent. To me that ranks higher than beating a smaller shot former titleist. Corley is not a bad opponent, certainly worthy as a challenger, and capable of hurting guys with his slick style. One of the few guys that actually hurt Mayweather. Same with Bailey and Quintana who were both good punchers.
If you look at the opponents and their abilities, Cotto faced a lot of dangerous and diverse challenges. Its not only about titles and name opponents, if the timing is meaningless.

 

There we have it, Corley was a great fighter because he hurt Mayweather. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Mosley hasn't been more than a good solid fighter since losing to Forrest imo.

 

Beating Oscar x2, Margarito, Mayorga, Collazo and Vargas stands him in pretty good stead though. I think he's worthy of the top 6.

 

Yeah, he's still world class, but way past his prime or the time he was turning in performances that were garnering praise as a possibly special fighter.

 

What's your opinion regarding the Cotto vs Barrera debate?

 

1.Pac
2.Hopkins
3.Mayweather almost put him 2nd
4.Barrera
5.Marquez -Morales

 

Different class of fighter imo.Cotto is a solid world class fighter, no more or less imo.Like Milt McCrory, one of the truly overhyped welterweights in his time.Maybe people were looking for another Tito or something, i dunno.

I do think he fought a nice balanced level of opposition throughout his career and did most of the things he should have done as far as matchmaking goes.I give him a lot of credit for that, even if i don't think much of most of the fighters he fought.You can only fight who is there.

 

1.Pacquiao
2.Hopkins
3.Mayweather
4.Mosley
5.Barrera

(6.Marquez
7.Morales
8.Winky
9.Calzaghe
10.JL Castillo)

 

My opinion is that it isn't even a debate. Only an absolute moron would have Cotto higher than Barrera p4p. Lefthook is probably the worst poster on the Classic, I'm really not surprised at his latest nonsensical input.

 

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