who are A,B,C Class fighters in your opinion

[markosg]

Take your complaints here.

Apologies................ Ring Magazine is the Law when is comes to boxing. I remember reading them predicting that David Tua and Michael Grant would knockout Lennox Lewis..... A true benchmark of boxing knowledge.

[Live Dog]

McCallum was known as "bodysnatcher" because he specialized in body punching, but unlike most other body punchers did not take head punches in return. His greatest professional problem was that the great welterweights and middleweights Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas "Tommy" Hearns and Roberto Duran knew of his achievements and declined to face him without pecuniary rewards that his own promoters were unwilling to meet. Hence he only achieved stardom at the tail-end of his career, retiring with a record of 49-5-1 (36 knockouts). He was never knocked out himself.

Mike never landing a big fight had more to do with Manny than anything else. Manny liked Tommy better than Mike, plain and simple.

[markosg]

Did you see the fight?

Yes i saw the fight and Floyd deserved to win by at least a couple of rounds........ but who was he fighting????? Someone theat had fought once in 2 years and was well passed his prime....

[Scott9945]

hahaha............. Mayweather is A+ ?????????? Nice one!!!! Seriously........... Split Decision win against a 34 year old DLH is A+...... what does that make a prime Oscar????

Like him or not, Mayweather is the standard that every other fighter is measured by. And yes, he is better than prime Oscar was.

[TheGreatA]

Apologies................ Ring Magazine is the Law when is comes to boxing. I remember reading them predicting that David Tua and Michael Grant would knockout Lennox Lewis..... A true benchmark of boxing knowledge.

I said I was using the Ring Magazine rankings as an example on how to rank fighters using + and -, it was not my opinion.

It's hard to classify boxers using only A, B, C. There is no way that Cotto is at the same level right now as a prime Roy Jones or Muhammad Ali although all three are ranked A-class.

[markosg]

Like him or not, Mayweather is the standard that every other fighter is measured by. And yes, he is better than prime Oscar was.

I do like him.......... but he would not have beaten the Oscar or Mosely that fought each other in 2000.

[Live Dog]

Yes i saw the fight and Floyd deserved to win by at least a couple of rounds........ but who was he fighting????? Someone theat had fought once in 2 years and was well passed his prime....

All I'm saying is that it was an SD that should not have been an SD.

[markosg]

I said I was using the Ring Magazine rankings as an example on how to rank fighters using + and -, it was not my opinion.

It's hard to classify boxers using only A, B, C. There is no way that Cotto is at the same level right now as a prime Roy Jones or Muhammad Ali although all three are ranked A-class.

I would say that Cotto is boarderline............. but you are using 2 examples of the very very best A class fighters. We are taking about a scale that has one three grades....

[niceguy45]

miguel cotto - B
floyd mayweather - A
antonio margarito - C
zab judah - C
shane mosley - B
kermit cintron - C
oscar de la hoya - B
andre berto - B
ricardo mayorga - D (LOL)
vernon forrest - C

[Live Dog]

I do like him.......... but he would not have beaten the Oscar or Mosely that fought each other in 2000.

It's a little naive to say that two fighters that have failed on the big stage on multiple occasions would beat a fighter that never has.