Fights between top 5 lb for lb fighters

[donE85hot]

fights between two fighters that were ranked in the top 5 lb for lb before they're match
Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor - 1990
Felix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya - 1999
James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr. - 1994
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao - 2015
Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward - 2016

can you guys help me out by listing more

[donE85hot]

Pernell Whitaker vs. Oscar De La Hoya
Whitaker/Chavez

[The Old LefHook]

Pacquiao was not that good by the time MW got around to fighting him. In name only, for he had been a P4P top 5, but Manny really wasn't anymore.

That is like saying Robinson/Armstrong was a top 5 P4P match for its era. But it was in name only also.

[Team Reek]

De La Hoya-Mosley 2000
Whitaker-McGirt 1993

[just the facts]

De La Hoya-Mosley 2000
Whitaker-McGirt 1993

I don't think McGirt was ever considered a top 5 P4P.

[soul_survivor]

Hopkins v Tito

Hopkins v Oscar?

Loma v Rigo for some lol

Holyfield v Tyson?

[Hawkins]

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns I
Felix Trinidad vs. Fernando Vargas

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Hearns-Leonard
Hearns-hagler
Toney-Jones jr
Winky-Hopkins
Mosley-Forrest
Manny-Marquez 2,3,4

[Rustle Wilson]

Kovalev had no business being top 5 p4p.

Pacquiao was not that good by the time MW got around to fighting him. In name only, for he had been a P4P top 5, but Manny really wasn't anymore.

That is like saying Robinson/Armstrong was a top 5 P4P match for its era. But it was in name only also.

Pac was past it, but still elite.

Dominated top Welters before and after that fight.

[The Old LefHook]

Kovalev had no business being top 5 p4p.



Pac was past it, but still elite.

Dominated top Welters before and after that fight.

Whatever your 9,000 points say, friend.