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Who you got guys ?

Without research I'd say Holyfield, Bowe, Tyson, Foreman, Moorer & Mercer.

I think Saad's just blown the house down.

It's hard to look past Holyfield on that basis.

For me it'd either be...

Floyd Mayweather

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Oscar De La Hoya
3. Juan Manuel Marquez
4. Jose Luis Castillo (2nd fight)
5. Diego Corrales

Manny Pacquiao

1. Marco Antonio Barrera (2x)
2. Erik Morales (2x)
3. Juan Manuel Marquez
4. Oscar De La Hoya
5. Miguel Cotto


Honorable Mentions: Lennox Lewis and Bernard Hopkins. Also Saad was right that Evander's 5 best wins are pretty f*cking sweet, and would surely rank very highly in this discussion.

Pacquiao was the first to mind, I have a problem rating heavyweight wins next to others so I'm not in the best position to judge his wins vs holyfields. to me the barrera/morales/marquez Pac beat significantly trump holy's equivalent wins, but I'm well aware I may just have a blind spot where heavyweights are concerned

I'd agree that Morales/MAB & Marquez are the top 3. If you're going to include Oscar for what he once was then I'll toss in Holmes for Evander and you have potentially 3 all time top 10 heavies as well as one of the most difficult Heavyweights ever to pick against. None of these answers are wrong.

Ha, yeah, the first 3 names were nailed-on and straight after that they started coming with (fairly significant) qualifiers attached to them. Cotto still a pretty good 4th win in spite of qualifiers, I wasn't sure if I'd have Oscar as one of the five as I believe lots and lots of half-decent welters would have bust him the fvck up, the state he was in.

So if boxing started on Jan 1st 1990 (nothing becore that counts)
And our only criteria is taking a boxer's 5 best wins...

My 1st pick is definitely MANNY PACQUAIO
(because of not just the calibre of opponent he beat, it was the fact that he wrecked them)

Stopped Barrera
KO'd Morales
Stopped De La Hoya
KO'd Hatton
Stopped Miguel Cotto

That's a pretty incredible run of results for any man. Wow.

If your going to give credit for washed up great names...I suppose Calzaghe's stock rises, since it includes Jones and Hopkins.

Syntax Error wrote:I think Saad's just blown the house down.

It's hard to look past Holyfield on that basis.

When you add two well fought efforts with Lewis...he loses nothing.

Marquez- Barrera, Pacquiao, Casamayor, Diaz, and.... Ummm? Salido?

Pretty fucken solid eh?

Floyd - Corrales,Marquez,Cotto,ODLH,Pacquiao

Counter-puncher wrote:Marquez- Barrera, Pacquiao, Casamayor, Diaz, and.... Ummm? Salido?

Pretty fucken solid eh?

I actually think JMM's top 4 might be better than Pacs?

Trinidad - ODLH,Whitaker,Vargas,Mayorga,and.....Camacho)

Crease wrote:So if boxing started on Jan 1st 1990 (nothing becore that counts)
And our only criteria is taking a boxer's 5 best wins...

My 1st pick is definitely MANNY PACQUAIO
(because of not just the calibre of opponent he beat, it was the fact that he wrecked them)

Stopped Barrera
KO'd Morales
Stopped De La Hoya
KO'd Hatton
Stopped Miguel Cotto

That's a pretty incredible run of results for any man. Wow.

Floyd has to be above Manny.

Roy Jones Jr:
Hopkins
Toney
Hill
Tarver
McCallum





Hopkins:

Trinidad
DLH
Winky
Tarver
Johnson

Might have to go with Hector Camacho.
Beat Duran 2x, Leonard, Pazienza, and Haugen.
Just incredible.

Andre Ward

Froch
Kessler
Abraham
Dawson
Bika

Roy Jones

james Toney
Bernard Hopkins
Mike McCallum
Reggie Johnson
Virgil hill

James Toney

Mike McCallum
Iran Barkley
Reggie Johnson
Michael Nunn
Evander Holyfield

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Floyd has to be above Manny.

Not if you ate solely basing it on their top 5 wins. Pacman demolished Hatton (it took Floyd much later to wear him down) & what Pac did to Oscar smashes Floyd's closely contested bout with him.

Crease wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Floyd has to be above Manny.

Not if you ate solely basing it on their top 5 wins. Pacman demolished Hatton (it took Floyd much later to wear him down) & what Pac did to Oscar smashes Floyd's closely contested bout with him.

Floyd dominated Manny, that is the best win either has. PACs win over hatton was visually awesome, I think Floyd faced a better version. He definitely faced a better Oscar. Though I'd put Bradley in for Manny anyway.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Crease wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Floyd has to be above Manny.

Not if you ate solely basing it on their top 5 wins. Pacman demolished Hatton (it took Floyd much later to wear him down) & what Pac did to Oscar smashes Floyd's closely contested bout with him.

Floyd dominated Manny, that is the best win either has. PACs win over hatton was visually awesome, I think Floyd faced a better version. He definitely faced a better Oscar. Though I'd put Bradley in for Manny anyway.

That's the way I see it as well.

littlepug wrote:Roy Jones

james Toney
Bernard Hopkins
Mike McCallum
Reggie Johnson
Virgil hill

Not sure how you leave out Ruiz purely based on the weight division issue.

BoxBuzz wrote:

littlepug wrote:Roy Jones

james Toney
Bernard Hopkins
Mike McCallum
Reggie Johnson
Virgil hill

Not sure how you leave out Ruiz purely based on the weight division issue.

I know, that result confused me a little in that I wasn't sure whether Ruiz standing in the heavyweights diminished the actual achievement or not but thought the list already contained some serious bragging rights so left him out, out of interest who would you drop for Ruiz cos that's another tricky one ?