In no particular order I'm going with:
Amir Khan (assuming he's still fighting)
Canelo Alvarez
Andre Berto
Timothy Bradley
Andre Ward
What are you guys' thoughts?
God, I hope Andre Ward doesn't become P4P #1 with his current style.
Ward is a disaster waiting to happen. Once someone realizes what he is, they will pick him apart with jabs and lateral movement. Dude is a wanna be Hopkins (sad at this young age to resort to such techniques) who can't win a fight outside of his hometown with hometown judges. Dude is a joke and I think that someone with nothing to lose will wreck him. I feel that there may have been some sort of a payoff in play with Showtime to get Froch and Ward in the finals. The payoffs coming in favor of Ward winning because they want him to win the whole thing.
Ward
Donaire
Golovkin
Villegas
Bradley(whomever emerges from 140 and avoids manny or floyd for at least 18 mo.)
Golovkin and villegas could end up as nobodies, but with the right management they will be stars. Chad dawson was just bad last time, but I still think he could be great. We'll see how he responds/ changes.
5 years is a long time, everyone on that list could be wiped out.
God, I hope Andre Ward doesn't become P4P #1 with his current style.
Don't worry Saul Alvarez will become bigger than Floyd and Pac when it's all said and done.
No, He can't he must have shown potential, Well he doesn't have it.
Ward
Donaire
Golovkin
Villegas
Bradley(whomever emerges from 140 and avoids manny or floyd for at least 18 mo.)
Golovkin and villegas could end up as nobodies, but with the right management they will be stars. Chad dawson was just bad last time, but I still think he could be great. We'll see how he responds/ changes.
5 years is a long time, everyone on that list could be wiped out.
in order
Andre Ward
Nonito Donaire
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Jose Benavidez/Frankie Gomez
Canelo Alvarez/ Diego Chavez/Demetrius Andrade
been ringside at a few of andrade's fights
and if he's a futue p4p i'll eat my hat lol
guillermo rigondeaux is almost garanteed to be a dismal professional. did you see his fight w/ cordoba? he's 28... i dont see him becoming a star when he's 33
jose benavidez is the one of the most talented young fighters on the planet and certainly a nice original entry
canelo (though i'm not as high on his talent as everybody else) looks like he's going to become a star
he's got "IT". he can punch, and some good matchmaking could get him some good wins, but he's begging to be outboxed eventually.
ward and donaire are the two that i think are shoe-ins
five years is an eternity in boxing, and anything can happen at any time, but those dudes have very consistant styles that adapt to what their opponents do well
additionally they've got guys in their divisions (or thereabouts) who they can use to catapault into p4p status
People have been saying that for the last 10 years,it will NEVER happen.
Take out Manny, Floyd and maybe Haye and boxing is just another sport in its current climate. When I say boxing will be dead, I mean in relation to the past years of when Oscar and Floyd fought.
Who knows, we may get another Manny or Floyd in the next 5 years but boxing needs a hell of a lot more fighters to come through to maintain its grip on the combative sport scene. Only 2 fights a year get 1m plus PPV in 2010 and just imagine the numbers in 5 years time with this current crop.