Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
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SaadOffTheDeck
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
I'd drop Reggie(underrated fighter, kudos for including him) and McCallum for tarver and Ruiz. Tarver has to be there, in a lot of ways that's his most impressive win to me. Actually I'd have Griffin too.
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Jones got a great resumeSaadOffTheDeck wrote:I'd drop Reggie(underrated fighter, kudos for including him) and McCallum for tarver and Ruiz. Tarver has to be there, in a lot of ways that's his most impressive win to me. Actually I'd have Griffin too.
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elmersalsa
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Yeah, his resume could have been better in my opinionlittlepug wrote:Jones got a great resumeSaadOffTheDeck wrote:I'd drop Reggie(underrated fighter, kudos for including him) and McCallum for tarver and Ruiz. Tarver has to be there, in a lot of ways that's his most impressive win to me. Actually I'd have Griffin too.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
The best resume since 1990 should be the great Evander Holyfield's:
WTKO3 Buster Douglas
W12 George Foreman
W12 Riddick Bowe (II)
W12 Ray Mercer
WTKO11 Mike Tyson
WTKO8 Michael Moorer (II)
He had an impressive resume. Very impressive. He would have beaten Lennox Lewis by the early to mid 90s decade if Lennox ever thought of fighting him then.
WTKO3 Buster Douglas
W12 George Foreman
W12 Riddick Bowe (II)
W12 Ray Mercer
WTKO11 Mike Tyson
WTKO8 Michael Moorer (II)
He had an impressive resume. Very impressive. He would have beaten Lennox Lewis by the early to mid 90s decade if Lennox ever thought of fighting him then.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
The second best resume since 1990 goes to the great Floyd Mayweather, Jr in my view:
WTKO8 Genaro Hernandez
WTKO10 Diego Corrales
W12 Jose Luis Castillo (II)
W12 Miguel Cotto
W12 Oscar De La Hoya
W12 Manny Pacquiao
WTKO6 Ricky Hatton
I don't include the Shane Mosley fight. Mosley was shot and it showed. Mayweather gotta be a top ten all time great because of his great accomplishments as a boxer. Some in here are going to disagree, but heck, you cannot please everybody.
WTKO8 Genaro Hernandez
WTKO10 Diego Corrales
W12 Jose Luis Castillo (II)
W12 Miguel Cotto
W12 Oscar De La Hoya
W12 Manny Pacquiao
WTKO6 Ricky Hatton
I don't include the Shane Mosley fight. Mosley was shot and it showed. Mayweather gotta be a top ten all time great because of his great accomplishments as a boxer. Some in here are going to disagree, but heck, you cannot please everybody.
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SaadOffTheDeck
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
Mosley was top 5 p4p. It counts.
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Ambling Alp II
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
Well of course Mosley was shot by then. However, we are just going with names on this thread; pretending that the stage of a fighter's career doesn't count.elmersalsa wrote:The second best resume since 1990 goes to the great Floyd Mayweather, Jr in my view:
WTKO8 Genaro Hernandez
WTKO10 Diego Corrales
W12 Jose Luis Castillo (II)
W12 Miguel Cotto
W12 Oscar De La Hoya
W12 Manny Pacquiao
WTKO6 Ricky Hatton
I don't include the Shane Mosley fight. Mosley was shot and it showed. Mayweather gotta be a top ten all time great because of his great accomplishments as a boxer. Some in here are going to disagree, but heck, you cannot please everybody.
Pacquio was shot as well, and Castillo and De La Hoya were past their best. However, you have to count if you are going to count Holyfield's wins over Foreman and Holmes, Toney's win over Holyfield, Jones wins over McCallum, Trinidads win over Whitaker etc.,
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
Jose Luis Castillo was in his prime when he lost to PBF.Ambling Alp II wrote:Well of course Mosley was shot by then. However, we are just going with names on this thread; pretending that the stage of a fighter's career doesn't count.elmersalsa wrote:The second best resume since 1990 goes to the great Floyd Mayweather, Jr in my view:
WTKO8 Genaro Hernandez
WTKO10 Diego Corrales
W12 Jose Luis Castillo (II)
W12 Miguel Cotto
W12 Oscar De La Hoya
W12 Manny Pacquiao
WTKO6 Ricky Hatton
I don't include the Shane Mosley fight. Mosley was shot and it showed. Mayweather gotta be a top ten all time great because of his great accomplishments as a boxer. Some in here are going to disagree, but heck, you cannot please everybody.
Pacquio was shot as well, and Castillo and De La Hoya were past their best. However, you have to count if you are going to count Holyfield's wins over Foreman and Holmes, Toney's win over Holyfield, Jones wins over McCallum, Trinidads win over Whitaker etc.,
Oscar DeLaHoya was a little bit past his best years. But, we can't discount the weight and reach advantages were in Oscar's favor.
Big George was a dangerous opponent for The Real Deal, even at age 42.
I don't include the Sugar Shane win as something remarkable. Shane should have been calling it quits for years.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
If the great Manny Pacquiao was shot when he fought Pretty Boy Floyd, then, was Floyd in his prime?
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SaadOffTheDeck
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
Shane's previous fight was the complete beat down if Margarito.floyd made a lot of guys 'shot'. Castillo was past his best? Alp is hysterical.
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Yep and coming off of one of his career best wins. The Margarito victory would have to rank as one of Mosley's 5 best victories at the very least.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Mosley was top 5 p4p. It counts.
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Ruiz was decidedly unskilled... so it was a good omission.
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Lennox Lewis
Holyfield
Tyson
Mercer
V. Klitschko
Tua
Oscar De La Hoya
Chavez (x2)
Quartey
Vargas
Sturm
Whitaker
Gatti
Gonzalez
Holyfield
Tyson
Mercer
V. Klitschko
Tua
Oscar De La Hoya
Chavez (x2)
Quartey
Vargas
Sturm
Whitaker
Gatti
Gonzalez
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Pacquiao
Alvarez
Cotto
De La Hoya
Judah
Corrales
Hatton
Kostya Tszyu
Judah
Tackie
Leija
Mitchell (x2)
Chavez (only fighter to actually knock out Chavez by punishment)
Gonzalez
Urkal
Bergman
Hurtado
Pacquiao
Alvarez
Cotto
De La Hoya
Judah
Corrales
Hatton
Kostya Tszyu
Judah
Tackie
Leija
Mitchell (x2)
Chavez (only fighter to actually knock out Chavez by punishment)
Gonzalez
Urkal
Bergman
Hurtado
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Kostya Tszyu
Žab Judah
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Diosbelys Hurtado
JCC
Shambra Mitchell x2
Žab Judah
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Diosbelys Hurtado
JCC
Shambra Mitchell x2
Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
Here's 12 candidates:
Ezzard Charles — Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Joe Walcott, Joe Louis, Lloyd Marshall
Larry Holmes — Tim Witherspoon, Ray Mercer, Muhammad Ali, Mike Weaver, Ken Norton
Wladimir Klitschko — David Haye, Alexander Povetkin, Eddie Chambers, Lamon Brewster, Sultan Ibragimov
Roberto Duran — Estaban De Jesus, Ken Buchanan, Ray Leonard, Ray Lampkin, Carlos Palomino,
Carlos Monzon — Rodrigo Valdez, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Nino Benvenuti, Denny Moyer... Maybe the top Middleweight
Bernard Hopkins — Antonio Tarver, Roy Jones, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Kelly Pavlik... Pavlik isn’t a stretch like some will say. He had 0 losses
Floyd Mayweather — Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley, Oscar De La Hoya
Vitali Klitschko — Tomasz Adamek, Juan Carlos Gomez, Sam Peter, Corrie Sanders, and Lennox Lewis who he was beating on all cards for what should have been a Unanimous Technical Decision
Joe Louis — Billy Conn, Max Schmeling, Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Jimmy Braddock
Gene Tunney — Jack Dempsey, Tommy Loughran, Harry Greb, Georges Carpentier, Tommy Gibbons... Tunney might take the top spot.
Jim Jeffries — Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey, Bob Armstrong, Peter Jackson
Jack Johnson — Jim Jeffries, Joe Jeannette, Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Tommy Burns
Ezzard Charles — Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Joe Walcott, Joe Louis, Lloyd Marshall
Larry Holmes — Tim Witherspoon, Ray Mercer, Muhammad Ali, Mike Weaver, Ken Norton
Wladimir Klitschko — David Haye, Alexander Povetkin, Eddie Chambers, Lamon Brewster, Sultan Ibragimov
Roberto Duran — Estaban De Jesus, Ken Buchanan, Ray Leonard, Ray Lampkin, Carlos Palomino,
Carlos Monzon — Rodrigo Valdez, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Nino Benvenuti, Denny Moyer... Maybe the top Middleweight
Bernard Hopkins — Antonio Tarver, Roy Jones, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Kelly Pavlik... Pavlik isn’t a stretch like some will say. He had 0 losses
Floyd Mayweather — Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley, Oscar De La Hoya
Vitali Klitschko — Tomasz Adamek, Juan Carlos Gomez, Sam Peter, Corrie Sanders, and Lennox Lewis who he was beating on all cards for what should have been a Unanimous Technical Decision
Joe Louis — Billy Conn, Max Schmeling, Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Jimmy Braddock
Gene Tunney — Jack Dempsey, Tommy Loughran, Harry Greb, Georges Carpentier, Tommy Gibbons... Tunney might take the top spot.
Jim Jeffries — Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey, Bob Armstrong, Peter Jackson
Jack Johnson — Jim Jeffries, Joe Jeannette, Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Tommy Burns
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And James Toney — Mike McCallum... Reggie Johnson... Michael Nunn... Vassily Jirov... Evander Holyfield
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Ambling Alp II
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
No Mayweather was not in his prime. He was closer to his than Pacquiao. Pacquiao had fought a ton of tough fights by then. He got knocked out three year previoulsy. He lost to Tim Bradley. He has not stopped anybody since 2009. This means he had not stopped anyone in 6 years before he fought Mayweather.elmersalsa wrote:If the great Manny Pacquiao was shot when he fought Pretty Boy Floyd, then, was Floyd in his prime?
Glad that you at least realize that Mosley was way past his best. He fought Mayweather six years after he had lost to Winky Wright the second time. It was obvious in the Wright fights that he was declining.
We can talk about the titles won and the names that Mayweather has. Here is the bottom line: He has zero wins over fighters that were great at the time that Mayweather fought them.
If we want to just to have fun and name wins that is fine. As I mentioned, Hector Camacho has some big names.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
I can or could agree with some of the things you have said here. But, to say in your bottom line that the great Floyd Mayweather, Jr had "zero wins" over fighters that were great at the time, I GOTTA DISAGREE!Ambling Alp II wrote:No Mayweather was not in his prime. He was closer to his than Pacquiao. Pacquiao had fought a ton of tough fights by then. He got knocked out three year previoulsy. He lost to Tim Bradley. He has not stopped anybody since 2009. This means he had not stopped anyone in 6 years before he fought Mayweather.elmersalsa wrote:If the great Manny Pacquiao was shot when he fought Pretty Boy Floyd, then, was Floyd in his prime?
Glad that you at least realize that Mosley was way past his best. He fought Mayweather six years after he had lost to Winky Wright the second time. It was obvious in the Wright fights that he was declining.
We can talk about the titles won and the names that Mayweather has. Here is the bottom line: He has zero wins over fighters that were great at the time that Mayweather fought them.
If we want to just to have fun and name wins that is fine. As I mentioned, Hector Camacho has some big names.
Some examples of his great wins against great boxers in their prime:
WTKO 8 Genaro Hernandez
WTKO10 Diego Corrales
W12 Jose Luis Castillo (II)
W12 Miguel Cotto
WTKO6 Ricky Hatton
WTKO5 Juan Manuel Marquez....I might be wrong in the outcome and at what round he stopped Marquez, (I stand corrected in the round) but the bottom line was that he won that fight. But, to me, I don't quality that as one of his very best wins because he had all kinds of advantages of weight, reach and height. Marquez was really too small for him. But, Those are great wins to a lot of people.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
PBF has beaten two guys in my view, that belong in the top 100 greatest pound per pound boxers of all-time: Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.
The other fighters? They were good and great wins along the way, but, those guys were never top 100 all-time material.
The other fighters? They were good and great wins along the way, but, those guys were never top 100 all-time material.
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You could make a slight case for Mosley and De La Hoya being Top 100 all time kinda fighters. I probably wouldn't have 'em there, but you could make a case for it.elmersalsa wrote:PBF has beaten two guys in my view, that belong in the top 100 greatest pound per pound boxers of all-time: Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.
The other fighters? They were good and great wins along the way, but, those guys were never top 100 all-time material.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
I don't want to be funny, Kalan, but some fighters here don't belong post 1990 conversation.Kalan wrote:Here's 12 candidates:
Ezzard Charles — Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Joe Walcott, Joe Louis, Lloyd Marshall
Larry Holmes — Tim Witherspoon, Ray Mercer, Muhammad Ali, Mike Weaver, Ken Norton
Wladimir Klitschko — David Haye, Alexander Povetkin, Eddie Chambers, Lamon Brewster, Sultan Ibragimov
Roberto Duran — Estaban De Jesus, Ken Buchanan, Ray Leonard, Ray Lampkin, Carlos Palomino,
Carlos Monzon — Rodrigo Valdez, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Nino Benvenuti, Denny Moyer... Maybe the top Middleweight
Bernard Hopkins — Antonio Tarver, Roy Jones, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Kelly Pavlik... Pavlik isn’t a stretch like some will say. He had 0 losses
Floyd Mayweather — Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley, Oscar De La Hoya
Vitali Klitschko — Tomasz Adamek, Juan Carlos Gomez, Sam Peter, Corrie Sanders, and Lennox Lewis who he was beating on all cards for what should have been a Unanimous Technical Decision
Joe Louis — Billy Conn, Max Schmeling, Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Jimmy Braddock
Gene Tunney — Jack Dempsey, Tommy Loughran, Harry Greb, Georges Carpentier, Tommy Gibbons... Tunney might take the top spot.
Jim Jeffries — Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey, Bob Armstrong, Peter Jackson
Jack Johnson — Jim Jeffries, Joe Jeannette, Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Tommy Burns
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That's true... But I think boxers from every era should be considered -- so this is obviously my all-time list... which includes some post 1990 guys as well.
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Re: Who has the 5 best wins on their resume? (any weightclass - Post 1990)
I don't want to get into a long debate here but" VITALI DID NOT beat LENNOX.
What would or could of happened is no more than saying what would happen in Fury Wlad 2 if it ever happens.
Would Douglas beat Tyson if the corner had an enswell and ice pack.
Byrd beat Vitali because his body would let him finish the fight that's the way it goes.
Its been 13 years buts it time to let it go, no matter how you spin it Lennox Lewis the last great heavyweight of his generation beat the best heavyweight of this generation. Since 2003 no heavyweight has emerged as good as Lennox.
Any objective assessment of achievement would rate Lewis the best heavyweight since 1999.
What would or could of happened is no more than saying what would happen in Fury Wlad 2 if it ever happens.
Would Douglas beat Tyson if the corner had an enswell and ice pack.
Byrd beat Vitali because his body would let him finish the fight that's the way it goes.
Its been 13 years buts it time to let it go, no matter how you spin it Lennox Lewis the last great heavyweight of his generation beat the best heavyweight of this generation. Since 2003 no heavyweight has emerged as good as Lennox.
Any objective assessment of achievement would rate Lewis the best heavyweight since 1999.
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You're right. They could be borderline. In some subjective personal lists, they could be included. In my view, they are not for the simple fact that there are too many borderline top guys in my view that didn't make it and deserve to be above the Oscars and the Sugar Shanes.gilgamesh wrote:You could make a slight case for Mosley and De La Hoya being Top 100 all time kinda fighters. I probably wouldn't have 'em there, but you could make a case for it.elmersalsa wrote:PBF has beaten two guys in my view, that belong in the top 100 greatest pound per pound boxers of all-time: Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.
The other fighters? They were good and great wins along the way, but, those guys were never top 100 all-time material.