BoxRec

...active fighters to watch at the following levels?

Mine are:

Tier 1 fighter: David Benavidez

Tier 2 fighter: Fabio Wardley


I will leave you to judge who qualifies as Tier 1 and 2 based on how you personally rate my fighters.

Jimmy2025 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2025, 15:16 ...active fighters to watch at the following levels?

Mine are:

Tier 1 fighter: David Benavidez

Tier 2 fighter: Fabio Wardley


I will leave you to judge who qualifies as Tier 1 and 2 based on how you personally rate my fighters.

Typically I'm not the biggest heavyweight fan, but I love watching Wardley, also Zhang

Tier 1 it has to be Bud Crawford. He’s everything you’d wanna be if you were a fighter. His technical brilliance, ring generalship and the real sense of spite in his work when he senses blood make his fights unmissable. Shame he’s been so inactive.

Tier 2 hard to choose but I’ve really enjoyed becoming aware of Kabayel. He’s maybe not the biggest HW and he has to stay in the pocket to get close enough to chop away at the body but he’s happy to take a shot to land one of his own which makes his fights action packed. I’d love to see him get a chance against Usyk

Tier 1 Tank Davis

Tier 2 Abdullah Mason

Yeh I love the knockouts - especially the possibly chinny bangers - that’s tier 2, not tier 1 - like a high wire act

Inoue and Usyk.

Tier 1 - Vergil Ortiz

Tier 2 - Adam Azim

Usyk (followed by inoue)


Nikita tszyu (bit weird tying to guess a wardly level fighter, really depends what you think his level is….)

Inoue and probably, Wardley, actually.

its fun seeing how many puncheees billy zepeda can fit into a fight. his 130ish averaged per round vs jo jo diaz is still maybe the most amazing stamina and work rate show ive seen in a 12 rounder, not pitty pat arm shots either

Canelo and Beterbiev

Good shout by the OP
Fabs is great to watch, his style is unorthodox and unpredictable, but always exciting.
Inoue is my second pick, he makes it look easy at times even though he is fighting at the top level.

Tier 1 - Nick Ball (he's a good world champ so I think it's ok to stick him in tier 1)

Tier 2 - Wardley