manny pacquaio.....the fight defined an era and who would be remembered as the best
Diego Corrales....dominated his first A level opponent in their prime and many favored Corrales...fight should have been leonard hearns at 130 but Mayweather showed no one his size in his era was near his class
Oscar De La Hoya.....fight made him the new ppv star and Oscar was very dangerous at this time, coming off winning a title and at his natural weight
Ricky Hatton...2 undefeated top ten p4p entrants fighting in their prime is rare and the atmosphere of this fight was unforgettable, Hatton brought the best out of floyd and fought his ass off to win...man had to get knocked out to quit
Canelo Alvarez...yes he wasnt in his prime yet but he was undefeated a 7-8 year pro and would go on to become arguably the #1 p4p guy after floyds retirement. He is only 29 but showed shades of greatness even as a young fighter
what are you picks
1 corrales, to prove dynasty at 130
2 baldomir, to coast to an easy points decision on somebody touted recently as fighter of the year
3 dela Hoya, beating the ppv king making himself even more popular
4 Pacquiao, to leave us all with a thorn in our side that we can't completely call Pac-Man tbe of our era
5 cotto, to shut up what at least fairly 50% of all boxing fans said he would lose to this tough hombre. These fights made him an atg, a great, and he beat many contemporary greats.
Floyd got for very few meaningful wins. Anyone floyd beat they never did anything after floyd beat them and disappeared soon after so either 2 things. They weren't that good in first place or floyd got them at the right time at end of career when anyone could beat them.
You will say not really, what about jmm, pac, nelo? Well firstly there's controversy to those wins and he never gave rematch when people thought they would do better in rematch against floyd
1. De La Hoya - About 75% of his net worth is due to him winning this fight
2. Corrales - His absolute peak performance
3. Castillo 2 - Shut up the people who thought he lost the first fight
4. Pacquaio - HIs biggest pay day
5. Canelo - The better Canelo gets, the better this win gets.
In order
1. Genaro Hernandez
2. Castillo rematch
3. Diego Corrales
4. Oscar de la hoya
5. Manny Pacquiao
thought about putting castillo 2 on this list....cotto castillo and hatton were tough for me to choose from
good shout with genaro hernenadez, its rare to see a 21 year old kid dominate a champion like that who never lost in their best division, he was no old or shot either...great win too
Conor McGregor deserves to b on this list, seeing how only Floyd is the only fighter who's knocked him out !!
that fight was not a world class boxing match, only one world class fighter was in the ring that night.....Conor was a money grab and not that meaningful except to fill their pockets and to make MMA fans stfu...they dont know **** about boxing and wouldnt respect it unless one of their guys took an L in the boxing ring
manny pacquaio.....the fight defined an era and who would be remembered as the best
Diego Corrales....dominated his first A level opponent in their prime and many favored Corrales...fight should have been leonard hearns at 130 but Mayweather showed no one his size in his era was near his class
Oscar De La Hoya.....fight made him the new ppv star and Oscar was very dangerous at this time, coming off winning a title and at his natural weight
Ricky Hatton...2 undefeated top ten p4p entrants fighting in their prime is rare and the atmosphere of this fight was unforgettable, Hatton brought the best out of floyd and fought his ass off to win...man had to get knocked out to quit
Canelo Alvarez...yes he wasnt in his prime yet but he was undefeated a 7-8 year pro and would go on to become arguably the #1 p4p guy after floyds retirement. He is only 29 but showed shades of greatness even as a young fighter
what are you picks
Conor McGregor deserves to b on this list, seeing how only Floyd is the only fighter who's knocked him out !!
he still looked horrible even if you thought he won. in fact all his ww fights he looked horrible. barely beat collazo, ko'd by floyd. ko'd by senchenko. i think its fair to say he was not very good at ww.
he was a pressure fighter moving up, to fight a southpaw who can box and bang, what you thought, it was gonna be a cakewalk, i sure didnt, collazo is a good fighter and has even had success at an advanced age.
at the time he fought floyd he was top ten p4p entrant in his prime.
he was good undefeated fighter.....styles make fights...floyd and manny were all wrong for him and a higher class than Collazo.....Senchenko he was clearly past prime, had drug issues and depression...he wasnt the same from fighter from 2005-2007 compared to 2009
they didnt watch the fight.,...most people on this site havent even watched the fights or fighters they speak.....90% of every fight that happened after 1995 i personally watched live or on the network broadcast the next week of the fight in their entirety
id have to score it again but Hatton pulled it out with his aggression, the knockdown and using angles, he realized he couldnt bully the bigger man
he still looked horrible even if you thought he won. in fact all his ww fights he looked horrible. barely beat collazo, ko'd by floyd. ko'd by senchenko. i think its fair to say he was not very good at ww.
True, but what do you say to the people that thought Collazo beat Hatton at 147?
they didnt watch the fight.,...most people on this site havent even watched the fights or fighters they speak.....90% of every fight that happened after 1995 i personally watched live or on the network broadcast the next week of the fight in their entirety
id have to score it again but Hatton pulled it out with his aggression, the knockdown and using angles, he realized he couldnt bully the bigger man
I agree with your picks... Maybe replace Hatton with Cotto who went on to do pretty good things after losing to Floyd... Hatton really didn't do anything
Hatton was lineal at 140 and beat Collazo for the wba belt and went back down to defend his lineage...nothing to sneeze at, nor was beating Tszyu.....
Cotto was someone i used to underrate, it was a toss up between hatton and cotto....Hatton got the edge because he was undefeated, in his prime and full of confidence coming off a huge win, whereas Cotto was only few fights removed from the Margo fight and barely got by Clottey
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