Alvarez Gvozdyk Bivol Jack Stevenson Kovalev Beterbiev Browne Barrera Yarde Mixture of h2h ability and resume. If it was based purely on resume it would look different. Stevenson is going to get beat, he is a faded fighter. Jack started giving him a bit of a beating tbh. Would favour Jack in a rematch. Kovalev must have lost a step after his whooping too.
Name and shame, what is your list? Browne and Barrera could easily be interchanged, actually maybe Barrera should be higher. Browne on resume is a worthy top 10 though. We need a 10th guy to round out the division and a lot of other blokes have had some devastating KO losses so couldn't quite make the cut. Yarde gets there by virtue of being fresh and undefeated. Might be bull **** but just my opinion.
Here's a far more acccurate list. 1. Eleider Alvarez 2. Oleksandr Gvozdyk 3. Dmitry Bivol 4. Adonis Stevenson 5. Artur Beterbiev 6. Sergey Kovalev 7. Badou Jack 8. Sullivan Barrera 9. Callum Johnson 10. Joe Smith Jr. 11. Dominic Boesel 12. Isaac Chilemba 13. Joshua Buatsi 14. Frank Bugloni 15. Radivoje Kaladzjic 16. Marcus Browne 17. Karo Murat 18. Hosea Burton 19. Anthony Yarde 20. Igor Mikhalkin
Barrera's resume diarrheas all over Browne's. Buatsi shits all over Yarde, so going by that standard, he slots in above him.
Browne beat the CW there was no BS knockdown. FOH. **** **** Headvetkin **** **** Joshua stiff ass **** **** Whyte is a ****ing bum **** **** Hearn. Brush your teeth Frankenstein. ****!
1. Eleider Alvarez 2. Oleksandr Gvozdyk 3. Dmitry Bivol 4. Artur Beterbiev 5. Sergey Kovalev 6. Adonis Stevenson 7. Badou Jack 8. Marcus Browne 9. Sullivan Barrera 10. Joe Smith Jr 11. Joshua Buatsi 12. Isaac Chilemba 13. Callum Johnson 14. Jean Pascal 15. Felix Valera Great division.
Is Gvozdyk puts a clinic on Stevenson I think it's clearly him. And I actually expect that though I'm hoping for one massive superman punch to destroy him or Gvozdyk choking. Beterbiev should be higher than Jack too, and I'm a huge Jack fan. The top 3 to me in terms of ability in no order is Gvozdyk, Bivol, and Beterbiev. Stevenson and Kovalev are old af, their time is over. Alvarez and Jack will pose difficult tests but I don't see them as special as those 3.
I would have Felix Valera, Akhmedov, and Pawel Stepian all ranked above Yarde as well and Anthony Sims Jr. and Lyndon Arthur would spark him out cold if he ever dared step between the ropes with either of them.