Is Your Top 5 ATG List Untouchable? Cemented?

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Mayweather can if he fights cotto/marg winner shane and maybe the viper

[wmute]

top 5 is a lot, it is the best fighters from a 100 years of the sport, form times where the talent pool was much larger. I am not even sure who i woudl have there. Let's say, impulsively.

1. SRR
2. Duran
3. Charles
4. Ali
5. Pep

Not necessarily in this order, plus I dont know where to put joe gans, anyways

The last fighter in time to get there as Duran IMO. After that, even Pea nd RJ fell short. The next one cold be Mayweather. If he stays at 147 and fights the relevant threats (basically if he ”reigns“ another division after 130), he might get there. Say he beats Cotto, and the next 147 star whoever it turns out to be, what else could one ask?

Calzaghe sure aint cracking it, not even close. i mean, he is 35, how much else could he possibly do next?

[Thread Stealer]

i agree how can Roy ,PBF , or any modern day fighter crack the top 5 when they avoid the competitive fights ,where as Champions of yester year sought out the best fighters

See, I don't necessarily think that's true. There's better technology nowadays so we know more about deals that were supposed to be made, or more about public demand, because we lived through it.

People like to romanticize the old days, and yes they fought more often so ultimately they fought more quality guys, but it's not as if fighters in the past didn't play the risk/reward thing as fighters do today.

There's a number of outstanding fighters who never fought for the title and got limited opportunities, which shows you that the champions (or their management) had little interest in fighting these guys because the reward wasn't worth the reward,

[Mike Tyson77]

neither one will ever be as big as Tyson,Ali, or Jones.