Top 10 fighters of the last 21 years...

[forget]

Lists are like ******s, everybody has one and only everybody else's stink.

[The_Demon]

Looks like a good list too me

[IRISH LULLABY]

LMAO at Pernell Whitaker being #1 that alone make your list a joke

1.Roy Jones Jr
2.Bernard Hopkins
3.Marco Antonio Barrera
4.Manny Pacquiao
5.Lennox Lewis
6.James Toney
7.Tito Trinidad
8.Rafeal Marquez
9.Floyd Mayweather
10.Erik Morales/Juan Manuel Marquez

Danm that was tough to do

No credible boxing scholar would leave Pernell Whitaker out of the Top 5, let alone the entire Top 10 of such a list, which is absolute madness if you ask me. Whitaker is arguably the greatest boxer of the past 21 years and any list which doesn't include him in some way, shape or form should be rubbished. Talent, skills, resume etc. Pernell had it all and is a certified All Time Great.

Please explain why you rate Juan Manuel Marquez greater than Pernell Whitaker.

[SBleeder]

Here's mine:

1. Ricardo Lopez
2. Pernell Whitaker
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
5. Bernard Hopkins
6. Joe Calzaghe
7. Manny Pacquiao
8. Rosendo Alvarez
9. Lennox Lewis
10. Chris John

[SCtrojansbaby]

No credible boxing scholar would leave Pernell Whitaker out of the Top 5, let alone the entire Top 10 of such a list, which is absolute madness if you ask me. Whitaker is arguably the greatest boxer of the past 21 years and any list which doesn't include him in some way, shape or form should be rubbished. Talent, skills, resume etc. Pernell had it all and is a certified All Time Great.

Please explain why you rate Juan Manuel Marquez greater than Pernell Whitaker.

Who the heck did Pernell Whitaker beat from 91-present? Seriously... Buddy Mcgirt? Julio Cesar Vasquez? Razor thin win vs Wilfredo Rivera? Pernell whitaker isn't even in the top 25 from 91-present. His 2 best wins(JLR and Azumah) which weren't even that great came in the 80s

Barrera, Casamayor and Gainer>>>>>>Mcgirt Vasquez and Rivera

and before you say well what about Chavez and Oscar.
Close decisions vs Pacquiao x2>>>>>>>>Close decisions vs Chavez(at welterweight) and Oscar


There is no logical way you can have Pernell Whitaker in the top 10 or above Marquez

[Joeyzagz]

1. Joe calzaghe
2. Lennox Lewis
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Floyd Mayweather
5. Roy Jones Jr
6. Pernell Whitaker
7. Naseem Hamed
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Mike Tyson
10. Vitali Klitschko

[studentofthegam]

First off, where's ya'lls list then?



Honestly Tyson was just up there for the hell of it haha thought I'd get ***** if I didn't place but turns out the opposite haha Liike I said I made this ***** in like 5mins, it was a quick impulsive thread.

Honestly Mayweather hurts his own legacy. He's easily top 5 the most talented but he don't do ***** with it. He ducked Pac(last two years and still going), Margarito(08-09), and Cotto(after the Oscar fight). Because of his "retirements". Rather fight small Hatton and small Marquez then the best at his weight class. The past few years the best welterweights have been Margarito, Cotto, Pac, and Mosley. How the **** does he only fight Mosley yet Pac fought them all? His resume below welterweight is beautiful and all but his "retirements" and lack of activity not to mention not fighting those fighters at their best.

I refuse to put Manny over Morales, but I can see him being put over Barrera because that is his best win EVER. PERIOD.



How come everywhere I post your always hating? Is it because in NSB I hyped up a Puerto Rican? haha I don't give a **** about that feud I thought he was an exciting young prospect. If you even knew me as a poster before that thread and knew my old sigs Juan Manuel Marquez is easily one of the favorite fighters today only behind probably Hopkins.



I actually am kind of ashamed in myself for not mentioning Marquez since he is one of my all time favorite fighters.

Tyson out, Marquez in. Edited with more thought into it.

There is no excuse for not having Floyd in there. You didnt to avoid confrontation.

1). Manny Pacquiao - Proud el *******o of the BoxingScene forum.

2). Oscar De La Hoya - Guy made boxing popular to women. Latinas can't stop talking about Oscar back in the days especially about how good looking he was. He made me follow boxing when I was a teenager. He was the PPV King along with Mike Tyson.

3). Roy Jones Jr. - He continued the popularity of boxing within the black community. Undefeated and barely had a boring fight during his prime.

4). Prince Naseem Hamed - Guy tried to do something different in boxing especially with his theatrical entrance. He made boxing exciting before the fight even begins.

5). Mike Tyson - the Heavyweight champ who instilled fear and kept boxing in the newspapers. Guy was PPV King, so even I watched his fights.

6). Erik Morales - the man who challenged every tough fighter in his division. A true proud Mexican fighter. And I should put Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. here too. He was very popular during the 1990s then Oscar beat him - torch passed.

7). Tito Trinidad - gave Puerto Ricans in New York City in the 1990s something to brag about. I still hear them in my ears from subway to school - it was all about Tito Trinidad when it came to boxing. Posters of Trinidad vs De La Hoya were everywhere in New York City inside the subway station, the bus, and billboards.

8). Arturo Gatti/Mikey Ward - these two fought so hard that people still talk about them especially within the Caucasian boxing fan communities.

9). Sugar Shane Mosley - became a certified boxing celebrity when he beat Oscar De La Hoya. Then his steroid use became an infamous topic because it was everywhere from newspapers to the media. Oscar's face looked bright red when he said something along the lines of "forget about it." HA!

10). As a ******* - I put Floyd Mayweather Jr. here in the bottom since I never heard of him back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I only started learning his name and record in 2007 when people started writing about Oscar De La Hoya should fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. Seriously, I never heard of him back then.

This list was made based on popularity not skills or what have you. I was a casual boxing fan back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I never even heard of Pernell Whitaker in all honesty until he fought Oscar De La Hoya. Oscar made me follow boxing a little bit. I was never interested in boxing other than who Oscar was going to fight next.

I became a ******* because the guy just demolishes everyone he faces or makes a fight in every fight he is in. His first fight with Erik Morales made me a fan of both boxers. When I watch the Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao - to me it feels like a passing of the torch because as an example instead of me following Oscar now I follow Pacquiao.

And if you grew up in New York City then some of you remember that commercial Oscar de la Hoya did for Puerto Rico the "Mi Casa, Su Casa" commercial. As a casual fan back then, for a moment I thought Oscar was Puerto Rican because of how many times it was played on air then I remembered he was a Mexican-American U.S. Olympic gold medalist.

My eyes imediately went to Hamed. Good Laud! You never heard of....or.....Didnt watch boxing?

[StarshipTrooper]

Pernell Whitaker:

Ring Magazine's p4p #1 in 1993,1994,1995
Ring Magazine's p4p #2 in 1990,1991,1992
Ring Magazine's p4p #3 in 1996
Ring Magazine's Lightweight #1 in 1990
Ring Magazine's Junior-Welterweight #2 in 1991,1992
Ring Magazine's Welterweight #1 in 1993,1994,1995,1996

Any more questions about Sweet Pea?

Poet

[JAB5239]

Pernell Whitaker:

Ring Magazine's p4p #1 in 1993,1994,1995
Ring Magazine's p4p #2 in 1990,1991,1992
Ring Magazine's p4p #3 in 1996
Ring Magazine's Lightweight #1 in 1990
Ring Magazine's Junior-Welterweight #2 in 1991,1992
Ring Magazine's Welterweight #1 in 1993,1994,1995,1996

Any more questions about Sweet Pea?

Poet

Heh, heh, heh, the boy doith need to check his facts, don't he?

[StarshipTrooper]

Heh, heh, heh, the boy doith need to check his facts, don't he?

He wouldn't know a fact if it b1tch slapped him :chuckle9:

Poet