Who is the best young talent in boxing?

[Rookieboy99]

Apologies if this has been done many times before but just curious to see who poeple rate as the best up and coming talent in the sport?

Names like Errol Spence Jr and Felix Verdejo are two that spring to mind. Who's the biggest talent though & why?

[Boxing Prospect]

Kosei Tanaka or Takuma Inoue.

[Sids]

Joseph Parker...

[koolkc107]

As far as potential impact and greatness?

I am going to go with Anthony Joshua.

[Chepppaaa]

inoue

[ikorolev]

It depends on what "young" in the question means, young person or beginning professional boxer. In case of latter, I am going with Lomachenko.

[GL14]

Naoya Inoue

[Deadendgeneration]

Naoya Inoue

Has to be for me, what he's achieved already, after so few fights and at such a young age. He looked much bigger than Navarez despite jumping up a couple of weight classes. I'm very interested to see how far he can climb.

[Freedom2013]

Obviously Naoya Inoue and Anthony Joshua.

A name that hasn't been mentioned yet is Ievgen Khytrov.

I class young as any fighter that is 26 years old or under.

You can use whatever age you like, but it's not really fair to go entirely by that.

Some fighters don't turn pro until they are older, yet may still have excellent potential.

Good examples of boxers who turned pro relatively late but have done well are Kovalev (3 world titles) and Golovkin, who is regarded by most as the best at middleweight.

I expect the talented age 27 Oleksandr Gvozdyk will do very well.

[Aaronide_ger]

Τravell Mazion is a future world champion 100% , Go check him out.
Sho Ishida
Alantez Fox (1.96 m Tall)
Ryota Murata
Javier Fortuna
Frankie Gomez
Jonathan Guzman
Dmitry Kudryashov (The next Big thing in the cruiserweight division.. KNOCKED OUT his best challenge in 1st round, Can easily become world champion)
Erickson Lubin
Jason Quigley

[Boxing Prospect]

Τravell Mazion is a future world champion 100% , Go check him out.
Sho Ishida
Alantez Fox (1.96 m Tall)
Ryota Murata
Javier Fortuna
Frankie Gomez
Jonathan Guzman
Dmitry Kudryashov (The next Big thing in the cruiserweight division.. KNOCKED OUT his best challenge in 1st round, Can easily become world champion)
Erickson Lubin
Jason Quigley

Interesting you mention Ishida, you view him as having a brighter future than Matsumoto? I think I'll always link them together and both look like REALLY good prospect from two rival camps (Ishida with Ioka and Matsumoto with Ohashi)

[IRLangmaid25]

For me, the immediate standouts are Naoya Inoue and Ericsson Lubin. With Inoue I will admir I picked against him when he fought the Argentinian Omar Navarez for the WBO Super-Flyweight title. I thought Navarez would be too smart and too experiwnced for Inoue. Two rounds later he shot my thoughts out of the water and made me think he is someone pretty damn special. Lubin I love watching for his calmness and intelligence in the ring.

[Andrew]

Tomioki Kameda is 23.

I think he has serious potential.

[Aaronide_ger]

Τravell Mazion is a future world champion 100% , Go check him out.
Sho Ishida
Alantez Fox (1.96 m Tall)
Ryota Murata
Javier Fortuna
Frankie Gomez
Jonathan Guzman
Dmitry Kudryashov (The next Big thing in the cruiserweight division.. KNOCKED OUT his best challenge in 1st round, Can easily become world champion)
Erickson Lubin
Jason Quigley

Interesting you mention Ishida, you view him as having a brighter future than Matsumoto? I think I'll always link them together and both look like REALLY good prospect from two rival camps (Ishida with Ioka and Matsumoto with Ohashi)

If they were to fight RIGHT NOW I believe that Ishida has a SLIGHT edge, but Matsumoto is 3 years younger and I believe that in the future he will have greater potential.. Time will tell man

[Sids]

Kye Mackenzie (Fighting Jack Assis for IBO strap)
Jake Carr
Zac Dunn (fighting Max Bursak for IBO strap)
Jeff Horn (Heard Haymon was considering him as a may 24 opponent for Amir Khan)
Cameron Hammond
Rohan Murdoch

[tsmithy50]

Kye Mackenzie (Fighting Jack Assis for IBO strap)
Jake Carr
Zac Dunn (fighting Max Bursak for IBO strap)
Jeff Horn (Heard Haymon was considering him as a may 24 opponent for Amir Khan)
Cameron Hammond
Rohan Murdoch

I like Jeff Horn, now he's signed with Duco in NZ, I've got to see quite abit of him. But for him to fight Amir Khan is crazy! Khans got to be in the top 20 pound for pound in the world.

[5burowz]

Verdejo

[handsofstone]

What's happened with Jessie Magdaleno?

Oscar Valdez,is that his name? The Olympian, he's a good fighter

In Britain I'm a big fan of the unbeaten Commonwealth LMW champ Liam Williams

[davie]

Dmitry Kudryashov (The next Big thing in the cruiserweight division.. KNOCKED OUT his best challenge in 1st round, Can easily become world champion)

This guy and Usyk will have a good rivalry you would imagine. Provided neither step up to heavyweight (which they inevitably will) this is something that could draw real interest to the CW division

[ajwesty13]

Here’s a dozen talented young fighters that are technically world-class at this early stage of their careers:
• ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (24 years old)
• Keith Thurman (26 years old)
• Danny Garcia (26 years old)
• Tyson Fury (26 years old)
• Naoya Inoue (21 years old)
• Juan Francisco Estrada (24 years old)
• Jessie Vargas (25 years old)
• Adrien Broner (25 years old)
• Leo Santa Cruz (26 years old)
• Adrian Estrella (23 years old)
• Jermell Charlo (24 years old)
• Scott Quigg (26 years old)

By the way, I’ve gone with world rating rather than potential, as it’s easier to justify... and I class young as any fighter that is 26 years old or under.

ferg lol ...Quiggs has been dreadfully over looked since Frampton success

[ajwesty13]

from this side of the pond..

these have potential to be world class with bundles of talent

Callum Smith, (24)
Kid Galahad (25)
Kevin Satchell (26)

[tanibanana]

as what have been mentioned before, depends on what "young" means..
some names mentioned are already mid 20's.. if you look at history, good to great fighters have already won multiple world title fights at that age.

Best young talents out there;
Verdejo (21)
Estrella (23)

But for me, the next P4P'ish fighters are T. Crawford (27) & D. Garcia (26).

[danamba7]

from this side of the pond..

these have potential to be world class with bundles of talent

Callum Smith, (24)
Kid Galahad (25)
Kevin Satchell (26)

And Luke Campbell (27 but looks about 14 so we can class him as young!)

[Tony1244]

Here’s a dozen talented young fighters that are technically world-class at this early stage of their careers:
• ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (24 years old)
• Keith Thurman (26 years old)
• Danny Garcia (26 years old)
• Tyson Fury (26 years old)
• Naoya Inoue (21 years old)
• Juan Francisco Estrada (24 years old)
• Jessie Vargas (25 years old)
• Adrien Broner (25 years old)
• Leo Santa Cruz (26 years old)
• Adrian Estrella (23 years old)
• Jermell Charlo (24 years old)
• Scott Quigg (26 years old)

By the way, I’ve gone with world rating rather than potential, as it’s easier to justify... and I class young as any fighter that is 26 years old or under.

Great list, but I'd also add Joseph Parker and Anthony Joshua to it. They're not ranked in the top 10 yet but will be very soon.

[Baby Face Finster]

as what have been mentioned before, depends on what "young" means..
some names mentioned are already mid 20's.. if you look at history, good to great fighters have already won multiple world title fights at that age.

Best young talents out there;
Verdejo (21)
Estrella (23)

But for me, the next P4P'ish fighters are T. Crawford (27) & D. Garcia (26).

Danny Garcia is not a P4P fighter. He should have a loss on his record already. I'm not saying you can't be a P4P fighter with a loss on your record but whom he should have lost against indicates that he isn't a top 10 P4P talent.