The next top pound for pound fighters:

[Dick-Sucker]

This current section looks at the fighters who will most likely have pound for pound rankings in the near future. The list is dominated with fighters that have high levels of natural ability and a big work rate.

1. Miguel Cotto. The most powerful fighter in his weight class. Combined with speed, agression and determination. On course for a number one pound for pound ranking.

2. Jermain Taylor. An olympic gold medalist, who to be honest has had poor performances in the past. It is obvious he has not been mentally focused and has sc****d through, with his belt remaining in tact. If he gets himself mentally right, Taylor could seriously climb up the pound for pound rankings.

3. Anthony Mundine. The boxer who divides a country and the world. Well known for being taken out of context about his comments. This Australian posesses an abundance of speed and underrated power. He gave Kessler his toughest fight in the past. But since then he has demolished world class opposition in Green and Soliman rather easily. He is ranked in this section because of his potential as a middle weight. Where he has indicated he may fight in the near future, in middleweight his hand speed and power would likely unify the division.

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5. Shane Cameron

[Zerwas1]

Mundine has to recover from his eye injury first, the last news weren't very full of hope

[ben41193]

In a few years i honestly think taylor will be just a bad memory of a fighter with amazing potentioal who just didnt live up too it.

[Dick-Sucker]

In a few years i honestly think taylor will be just a bad memory of a fighter with amazing potentioal who just didnt live up too it.

Possibly. Its about mentality with him. If he can overcome his personal demons he may be fine. An interesting match up would be Taylor vs Mundine at middle weight.

On the first reply. Mundine's eye is getting a lot better. And he is likely to fight again. May be out for 6 months though.

Second i have to Keep Cotto as 1, he is to good for me to put him anywhere else.

[ben41193]

Possibly. Its about mentality with him. If he can overcome his personal demons he may be fine. An interesting match up would be Taylor vs Mundine at middle weight.

On the first reply. Mundine's eye is getting a lot better. And he is likely to fight again. May be out for 6 months though.

Second i have to Keep Cotto as 1, he is to good for me to put him anywhere else.

Taylors problem is that he fights the fight he is in like he should have fought his last fight.

[Zerwas1]

On the first reply. Mundine's eye is getting a lot better. And he is likely to fight again. May be out for 6 months though.

Hell jeah!!!
looking forward to it

[Dick-Sucker]

Hell jeah!!!
looking forward to it

Whats your take on Mundine? Potential wise? what could he do against Calzaghe or Kessler, and what could he do in middleweight?

[dumdane]

Whats your take on Mundine? Potential wise? what could he do against Calzaghe or Kessler, and what could he do in middleweight?

Mundine, if he recovers fully, can be a top 3-5 competitor at SMW (with it's present participants)

He got beat in his own backyard by Kessler, who for that fight was severely out of shape and somewhat restrained by a back-injury.
Add to that Kessler was still a much younger guy only going into his prime.

So even if Mundine HAS actually improved a lot (Green and Soliman may indicate this - but it's not proven fact) He's not likely to be competitive against a fully fit Kessler or Calzaghe for that matter.

I'd also like to see Mundine do well against fighters of the Bute, Lacy, Inkin, Andrade level before even beginning to speculate how far he could go P4P wise.

If he could slim down to 160 without losing too much power, i think he'd stand a better chance of making an impact there.

[Dick-Sucker]

Mundine, if he recovers fully, can be a top 3-5 competitor at SMW (with it's present participants)

He got beat in his own backyard by Kessler, who for that fight was severely out of shape and somewhat restrained by a back-injury.
Add to that Kessler was still a much younger guy only going into his prime.

So even if Mundine HAS actually improved a lot (Green and Soliman may indicate this - but it's not proven fact) He's not likely to be competitive against a fully fit Kessler or Calzaghe for that matter.

I'd also like to see Mundine do well against fighters of the Bute, Lacy, Inkin, Andrade level before even beginning to speculate how far he could go P4P wise.

If he could slim down to 160 without losing too much power, i think he'd stand a better chance of making an impact there.

Mundine gave Kessler his closest fight. It was very easy to score. Kessler won it by three rounds. If you think he can only be a competitor, with a 3-5 ranking in the super middleweight division, then i have to disagree with you. He is already that, in fact the third best super middleweight at the moment.
Im confident Kessler wasn't injured in his fight with Mundine. He was letting full combinations go, its just an excuse for his closest fight.

Bute, Lacy and Inkin, Andrade do not have the skill level that Mundine has and fighting them would be a waste of time for him where there is bigger money to make. I wouldn't mind him fighting Lacy though as he would break into the US market by that. And we all know what breaking into the US market can do for a boxers prospects, rankings ppv and everything.

Mundine has improved a lot since the Kessler fight. So much so i think a fight between them, Kessler would only be a slight favourite. Whereas i would favour Mundine to beat Calzaghe. A lot of you will think im kidding, but i have followed Calzaghe's career, and he has been hit a lot, Mundine won't miss with his speed and power.

I am going both ways to who wins out of Calzaghe Kessler. But both ways its good for Mundine. If Calzaghe wins then Mundines WBA belt is not a paper title it is now the real deal. If Kessler wins emphatically, then Mundine has come closer to him than Calzaghe.

Both ways its going to throw up the division. By the way Khoder Nasser has said on Australian radio that Mundine offered Kessler 80 percent of the purse to fight in OZ again. Kessler rejected. Would a guy who beat him previously do that? he wasn't injured. No one in the current day of boxing takes a fight injured, there is to much to loose.