My top 5 Prospects in Boxing today....

[King Ghidorah]

1) Saul Alvarez

+ Very Hard Puncher

+ Good Combination Puncher

+ Good Size

+ Effectively Aggressive

+ Cuts the Ring off Well

+ Nice Jab

- Has face Eurobums and Mexicanbums as well

- Needs to step up competition

- Cardio can be a problem in the deeper rounds

- Has one gameplan for every fight and doesn't adjust or change...



2) Gary Russell Jr.

+ Amazing Hand Speed

+ Fast Combinations

+ Pretty tough fighter

+ Fast and fluid footwork

+ Pretty Good Technique

- too young too to judge at this point
- Is early in his career

3) James Kirkland:

+ Raw Knockout power

+ Aggressive

+ Good Body puncher


- Lacks any kind of defense

- Shaky Chin

- Blocks punches with his face

- limited foot work

- limited technique

4) Fernando Guerrero

+ Powerful Puncher

+ Good Range

+ Good technique

+ Good footwork


- Has not faced top competition

- Chin and will not tested yet




5) Deontay Wilder

+ Good Power in right hand

+ 87 in reach and 6'8

+ Very Athletic

+ Good speed

+ Tons of potential


- Needs to polish his technique especially his jab

- He just has the look of a guy with a glass jaw

- Extremely raw

- Basically fighting bums right now

- Needs to step up competition

- Has been knocked down by a bum



What are yours?

[BetterCallSaul]

Saul Alvarez isn't a prospect. I'm a big fan, but as a world champion, he should be classed as a legitimate title holder, thus shouldn't be able to to sidestep tough opponents using the 'too green' excuse.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Saul Alvarez isn't a prospect. I'm a big fan, but as a world champion, he should be classed as a legitimate title holder, thus shouldn't be able to to sidestep tough opponents using the 'too green' excuse.

Titles don't mean anything. Canelo is 20 years old and should be treated as such.

As for my top 5 prospects

Hugo Ruiz
Adrien Broner
Gilberto Ramirez Sanchez
David Lemieux
Luis Garcia

[Walt Liquor]

Are these old?

Not a big fan of either list really. Especially if The Black Russian isnt on either.

[Walt Liquor]

Bronsr amd saul alvarez arent prospects, they're contenders

[Jay Volcano]

Vasyl Lomachenko, José Benavidez.

[NChristo]

Luis Garcia, Alexei Acosta and Mike Perez, my 3 favorites anyway.

[The_Golden_Goy]

Deontay Wilder is ****in terrible

[nachorjj]

Gennady Golovkin
Ismayl Sillakh
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Odlanier Solis
Jose Benavidez Jr

and in the amateurs today

Lomachenko
Raushee Warren
Artur Beterbiyev

[eubank#1]

saul alvarez is a hard puncher but cant stop a very poor welterweight in matt hatton?