Given the fight last night and the departure of Lomachenko, who is the top dog at FW now? I reckon it's between Frampton, Selby and Russell.
Russell Jr. Russell Jr. is the lineal champ. The others must get in line. Who is the best? Well I don't know.
I'd pick Selby to beat Frampton. He has the longer reach, he's slick, and his boxing skills are superb. Frampton's wins over Quigg and LSC are better than anything Selby has done, and both those guys can definitely beat Selby, but styles make fights. When has Frampton fought a a slick boxer with nearly a 10 inch reach advantage that can box like Selby? Frampton/GRJ is 50/50 to me I think this is a far more exciting fight than Selby/Frampton. Selby/Frampton will be a chess match. Selby uses his reach and controls the distance well. I can see GRJ going for Frampton's head, and both of them landing huge shots. Selby/GRJ I'd favor GRJ's style based off Selby's last performance. It's hard to say who is the best FW. Valdez is there too, and so is Cueller and many more FW's. FW is stacked. They have to fight each other to earn that spot. Based of resume right now, we'd have to go with Frampton though, even though he only has one win at FW, a win over LSC is the best win @ fw.
It's obviously Frampton. He now has the best win in the division. GRJ and Selby don't have any top 5, possibly even any top 10 wins to their name. LSC was legit top 2 or 3 in the division.
Russell has Jhonny Gonzalez ,who was considered the 2 best at the time and for Selby he has Gradovich ,who also was top 10
I had the same question. I think it could well be Selby but its open to debate and I wouldnt argue either way. Could be Frampton as he beat who I would of thought was the top FW when he fought them
Russell did beat a champ, but I dont like all of this lineal thing as if it means something, as Russell had lost to VL but then you would have someone suddenly argue he is the lineal champ. Either way Russell does look like a good fighter and is a tough fight for any FW