Let me know what your top 10 - Favorite Current Fighters - Favorite All Time Fighters - Favorite Fights - Most Anticipated Matchups (Fights youve been most pumped for when they were announced) - Fights That Didnt Happen (Fights that were possible at the time but just didnt happen due to... boxing) Can pick n choose the catagories and doesnt have to be a top 10 obviously, just want to hear some answers to these from ya'll.
My very very preliminary answers, will alter over time, this just top of head answer. Favorite Current Fighters 1. Usyk 2. Crawford 3. AJ 4. Beterbiev 5. Tank 6. Canelo 7. Bivol 8. Loma 9. Inoue 10. Wilder Honorable Mentions : Ortiz, Zhang, Favorite All Time Fighters 1. Fernando Vargas 2. Pac 3. Erik Morales 4. Floyd Mayweather 5. Sergio Martinez 6. 7. 8. Andre Ward 9. Micky Ward 10. Wladimir Klitschko I need to think about this more lol... harder than I thought it would be to choose a top 10 all time. Let me think more. Favorite Fights 1. Ward vs Gatti 1 2. Trinidad vs Vargas 3. Vargas vs Quartey 4. Morales vs Pac 1 5. MAB vs Morales 1 6. Corrales vs Castillo 1 7. AJ vs Wladimir 8. AJ vs Ngannou (I know I know) 9. Margarito vs Cotto 10. Cotto vs Judah Most Anticipated Matchups 1. AJ vs Ngannou (I know this answer sucks, but in reality boxing had an immense amount on the line in this fight.) 2. Hoya vs Vargas This content is protected 4. Kovalev vs Ward 5. Pac vs Cotto 6. Mayweather vs Pac 7. Crawford vs Spence 8. Margarito vs Cotto 9. Cotto vs Judah, 10. Rigo vs Donaire Honorable Mentions : Garcia vs Matthysse, Wlad vs Peter, Wlad vs Haye, AJ vs Wlad, Ward vs Froch TOP FIGHTS THAT DIDNT HAPPEN 1. Prime Floyd vs Prime Pac 2. AJ vs Wilder 3. AJ vs Fury 4. Prime Floyd vs Prime Cotto 5. James Kirkland vs Omar Henry 6. Matthyyse vs Maidana 7. Pac vs Valero 8. Golovkin vs Pirog 9. Pavlik vs Abraham 10. Taylor vs Miranda
Most Anticipated matchups 1. Hagler - Hearns 2. Ali - Frazier (FOTC) 3. Alvarez - Golovkin 1 4, Zamora - Zarate (Battle of the Z Boys) 5. Mayweather - Pacquiao (Would be number 2 if they hadn't over marinated the bout) 6. Ali - Foreman 7. Spinks - Tyson 8. Hagler - Leonard 9. Fury - Usyk 10. Chacon - Lopez (Schoolboy and Little Red weren't quite national big deals yet but as a teen growing up in southern California, I was very excited for this one.)
Current: Usyk AJ Inoue Fury Chisora Beterbiev Canelo Crawford Loma Bam All Time: Bruno Naz Eubank Froch Pascal Jeannette Tyson Marciano Ali Lewis Fights Mosley v Margo Margo v Cotto Marquez v Diaz Usyk v Fury Lewis v Klitschko Mitchell v Murray Rhodes v Moore Moore v Macklin Froch v Groves Froch v Pascal Anticipated Bruno v Tyson 2 Lewis v Tyson Mayweather v Hatton Usyk v Fury Beterbiev v Bivol Golvokin v Canelo Crawford v Spence Hopkins v Hoya Calzaghe v Kessler Vitali v Solis Fights that didn't happen Gamboa v Lopez AJ v Wilder AJ v Fury Khan v Thaxton Jones v DM Canelo v Benavidez Mayweather v Margarito Mayweather v Williams Inoue v Gonzalez Inoue v Estrada
Current 1. George Kambosos 2. Tim Tszyu 3. Jai Opetaia 4. Liam Paro 5. Liam Wilson 6. Sam Goodman 7. Justis Huni 8. Cesar Mateo Tapia 9. Nikita Tszyu 10. Jackson "The Der's Murray" All time 1. Anthony Mundine 2. Kostya Tszyu 3. Paul Briggs 4. Jeff Fenech 5. Nedal Hussein 6. Michael Katsidis 7. Lucas Browne 8. Shannan Taylor 9. Vic Darchinian 10. Paul Gallen
Current: 1. Canelo Alvarez 2. Teofimo Lopez 3. David Benevidez 4. Jojo Diaz 5. Bam Rodriguez 6. Tank Davis 7. Deontay Wilder 8. Shakur Stevenson 9. Caleb Plant 10. Usyk All Time: 1. Fernando Vargas 2. Johnny Tapia 3. Kelly Pavlik 4. Shane Mosley 6. Julio Cesar Chavez 7. Evander Holyfield 8. Marco Antonio Barerra 9. Floyd Mayweather 10. Ray Leonard Favorite fights: 1. Trinidad-Vargas 2. Corrales vs Castillo 1 3. Tapia vs Ayala 1 4. Pavlik vs Taylor 1 5. De la hoya vs Mosley 1 6. Tyson vs Holyfield 1 7. Hagler vs Leonard 8. Salvador Sanchez vs Danny lil red Lopez 1 9. Canelo vs Golovkin 2 10. Barerra vs Morales 1 11. Corales-Freitas
Favorite Current Fighters 1. William Zepeda 2. Canelo 3. Bam 4. Emmanuel Navarrete 5. Munguia 6. Tank 7. Teofimo 8. Gallo 9. Tyson Fury 10. Zurdo Ramirez Favorite All Time Fighters 1. De LaHoya 2. Fernando Vargas 3. Diego Corrales 4. Antonio Margarito 5. Ricardo Mayorga 6. Julio Cesar Chavez 7. Mike Tyson 8. Erik Morales 9. Juan Manuel Marquez 10. Jose Luis Castillo Favorite Fight 1. De La Hoya vs Vargas 2. Marquez vs Pacquiao IV 3. Chavez vs De La Hoya II 4. Morales vs Barrera I 5. Corrales vs Castillo 1 6. De La Hoya vs Mosely I 7. Jorge Arce vs Nedal Hussein 8. Morales vs Pacquiao I 9. De La Hoya vs Mayorga 10. Margarito vs Cotto I TOP FIGHTS THAT DIDNT HAPPEN 1. Prime Floyd vs Prime Pac 2. Margarito vs Floyd 3. Prime Wilder vs Prime Joshua 4. Berchelt vs Lomachenko 5. Pacquiao vs Baby Bull Diaz 6. Winky vs De La Hoya 7. Erik Morales vs Juan Manuel Marquez 8. Trinidad vs Mosely 9. Paul Williams vs Canelo 10. Bivol vs Beterbiev (7 years and no fight)
Ooft some of that is impossible! - Favorite Current Fighters 01 - Roman Gonzalez 02 - Oleksander Usyk 03 - Juan Francisco Estrada 04 - Naoya Inoue 05 - Michel Soro 06 - Jai Opetaia 07 - Chrstian Mbilli 08 - Junto Nakatani 09 - Murodjon Akhmadaliev 10 - Regie Suganob - Favorite All Time Fighters 01 - Charley Burley 02 - Roman Gonzalez 03 - Joe Louis 04 - Juan Manuel Marquez 05 - Oleksander Usyk 06 - Ivan Calderon 07 - Joe Frazier 08 - Chucho Castillo 09 - Michael Watson 10 - Dick Tiger
In no particular order: Current top ten: Loma Inoue Usyk W Zepeda J Nakatani AJ Bivol Bam S Derevychenko R Garcia All time top ten: Loma Inoue Brook GGG Kovalev Usyk S Martinez W Klitschko A Margarito Pacman
Current Top 10 1. Oleksandr Usyk 2. William Zepeda 3. Fernando Daniel Martinez 4. Rafael Espinoza 5. Vasyl Lomachenko 6. Subriel Matias 7. Jin Sasaki 8. Vergil Ortiz 9. Gustavo Lemos 10. Eduardo Nunez This content is protected All Time Top 10, in no particular order... (I could easily extend this to a Top 200) Sergio Martinez Joe Calzaghe Carl Froch Oscar De La Hoya Sugar Ray Leonard Sergey Kovalev Oleksandr Usyk Antonio Margarito Erik Morales Gennady Golovkin
It took some thinking... but challange accepted: Favorite Current Fighters: Andy Cruz Oleksandr Usyk Simphiwe Nontshinga Kazuto Ioka Mateusz Masternak Vasyl Lomachenko Robson Conceicao Emmanuel Rodriguez Carlos Canizalez Tyler Denny Favorite All-Time Fighters: 1. Erik Morales 2. Ike Quartey 3. Guillermo Rigondeaux 4. Jose Luis Castillo 5. Andriy Kotelnik 6. Mike McCallum 7. Kazuto Ioka 8. Ricardo Cordoba 9. Gabriel Campillo 10. Glen Johnson Favorite Fights: Erik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera I Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao I Jose Luis Castillo vs Diego Corrales I James Toney vs Mike McCallum I Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran I Jose Luis Castillo vs Stevie Johnston I Juan Francisco Estrada vs Roman Gonzalez II Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez II Francisco Vargas vs Takashi Miura Francisco Vargas vs Orlando Salido Most Anticipated Match-ups: Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Nonito Donaire Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez I Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward I Sergio Martinez vs Paul Williams II Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado I Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye (I was still a bit naive, what can I say...) Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence Jr. Danny Garcia vs Lucas Martin Matthysse Kazuto Ioka vs Akira Yaegashi Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury I Top Fights that didn't happen (Out of realistic ones, that were at least talked about a bit): Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao (Prime for Prime) Sergey Kovalev vs Adonis Stevenson Yuriorkis Gamboa vs JuanMa Lopez Vasyl Lomachenko vs Mikey Garcia Roman Gonzalez vs Kazuto Ioka Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder Sergio Martinez vs Gennady Golovkin Errol Spence Jr. vs Keith Thurman Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Keith Thurman Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Carl Frampton
- Favorite Current Fighters Oleksandr Usyk Vasiliy Lomachenko Sergiy Derevyanchenko Terence Crawford Naoya Inoue Juan Francisco Estrada I don't have 10 favourite fighters in this era. - Favorite All Time Fighters Larry Holmes Pernell Whitaker Juan Manuel Marquez RJJ Marvin Johnson Matthew Saad Muhammad Salvador Sanchez Cornelius Boza-Edwards Arturo Gatti Thomas Hearns - Favorite Fights Cornlius Boza-Edwards vs Bobby Chacon 2 Juan Manuel Marquez vs Juan Diaz Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward 1 Larry Holmes vs Ken Norton Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales 1 Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez 2 Bobby Chacon vs Rafael Limon 4 Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo 1 Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe 1 Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vasquez 3 - Most Anticipated Matchups (Fights youve been most pumped for when they were announced) Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather Jr Joe Calzaghe vs Mikkel Kessler Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito 1 Jermain Taylor vs Kelly Pavlik 1 Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez 1 Juan Manuel Marquez vs Manny Pacquiao 4 = I felt like something special was going to happen and it did. Carl Froch vs George Groves 2 Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vasquez 3 - Fights That Didnt Happen (Fights that were possible at the time but just didnt happen due to... boxing) Not all these were in my life time but..... Lennox Lewis vs Riddick Bowe Mike Tyson vs George Foreman Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor Juan Manuel Marquez vs Erik Morales Shane Mosley vs Felix Trinidad ODLH vs Winky Wright Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Paul Williams Thomas Hearns vs Mike McCallum Alexis Arguello vs Roberto Duran RJJ vs Dariusz Michalczewski
I'll come back and edit this but - Top 10 current favourites: 1. Naoya Inoue 2. Artur Beterbiev 3. Canelo Alvarez 4. Vasiliy Lomachenko 5. Janibek Alimkhanuly 6. Ginjiro Shigeoka 7. Fernando Martinez 8. Erislandy Lara 9. Kazuto Ioka 10. William Zepeda Top 10 all-time favourites: 1. Ken Buchanan 2. Manny Pacquiao 3. Joe Gans 4. Carlos Monzon 5. Gennadiy Golovkin 6. James Toney 7. Nigel Benn 8. Chocolatito Gonzalez 9. Ezzard Charles 10. Yuri Arbachakov Top 10 favourite fights: 1. Naoya Inoue vs Nonito Donaire 2. Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez 3. Masao Oba vs Chartchai Chionoi 4. Canelo Alvarez vs Gennadiy Golovkin 2 5. Fighting Harada vs Eder Jofre 1 6. Marvin Hagler vs Vito Antuofermo 1 7. Ken Buchanan vs Jim Watt 8. Chocolatito vs Estrada 2 9. Kazuto Ioka vs Kosei Tanaka 10. James Toney vs Mike McCallum 1
