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Ten fighters currently ranked as a top 10 fighter in their division. How many more can join these before the end of 2011?

DeGale, Andy Murray, Willie Casey, Andy Lee, Kevin Mitchell, Kell Brook & Matthew Hatton must all be contenders. Probably a few more too?

Heavyweight
2. David Haye

Light Heavyweight
5. Nathan Cleverly

Super Middleweight
3. Carl Froch

Middleweight
5. Matthew Macklin

Jr. Middleweight
4. Ryan Rhodes

Jr. Welterweight
2. Amir Khan
10. Paul McCloskey

Lightweight
6. John Murray

Jr. Lightweight
2. Ricky Burns

Jr. Featherweight
10. Rendall Munroe

Not Mitchell, and Brook needs to step it up, but a good chance Degale and Groves could break into the SM top 10

johnswan1 wrote:Ten fighters currently ranked as a top 10 fighter in their division. How many more can join these before the end of 2011?

DeGale, Andy Murray, Willie Casey, Andy Lee, Kevin Mitchell, Kell Brook & Matthew Hatton must all be contenders. Probably a few more too?

Heavyweight
2. David Haye

Light Heavyweight
5. Nathan Cleverly

Super Middleweight
3. Carl Froch

Middleweight
5. Matthew Macklin

Jr. Middleweight
4. Ryan Rhodes

Jr. Welterweight
2. Amir Khan
10. Paul McCloskey

Lightweight
6. John Murray

Jr. Lightweight
2. Ricky Burns

Jr. Featherweight
10. Rendall Munroe

I'll be impressed if he quits tennis, becomes a boxer and then becomes a top 10 ranked fighter in the same year

Captain Hook wrote:Not Mitchell, and Brook needs to step it up, but a good chance Degale and Groves could break into the SM top 10

World top ten? Not unless they step up. Some good depth in that devision now. Of course depends if you class the likes of Kessler, Dirrell and Taylor retired or not.

I think Taylor and Kessler probably will so there's no reason why not, both uber-talented and there is room for them at 9/10 if they continue in the same way as 2010

Groves is overrated by a lot here. I would be shocked if he soon found a spot in the top ten by the end of 2011. Everyone in the current top 10 has a much better resume (which is what these rankings are usually based on) and there are several others not in the rankings who have done more. Degale will also need some step ups to get a spot in there. It is only early days and neither has made it past Brit level. In a couple years they (especially Degale) have a good shot of being world ranked, but by the end of 2011? Highly unlikely.

Also, Taylor is not ranked by The Ring.

Don't know what Murray is at. He won the EBU title in March 2009 but has fought eight times since then without really stepping up further.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

I also see McCloseky is down as "English" in The Ring....
That was EU Murray won, not EBU, and he has since relinquished it.

ApolloCreed wrote:I also see McCloseky is down as "English" in The Ring....
That was EU Murray won, not EBU, and he has since relinquished it.

Yes, he was stripped of it for not defending it. Some Spain based Vietnamese guy won it since.

For me it should be

Top 5

Haye
Froch
Khan
Burns

Top 10

Olafoabi
Cleverly
Magee
Macklin
Rhodes
Foster Jnr
Munroe

Top 15

Hide
Brook
McLoskey
Olusegun
Murray

Top 25

Chisora
DeGale
Barker
Lee
Webb
Hatton
Theophane
Mitchell
Simpson
Smith
Booth
McDonnell