Top 10 P4P in 5 Years Prediction

[Public_Enemy]

5 years is a long time in this sport. Many of the guys now already establishing themselves might be retired by then.

Any fighter now with an aggressive style, in 5 years you can stick a fork in them.
The more elusive fighters might hang on, but the often injured and older ones will already begin to exit.

Even Broner, with his style, gets hit a lot. Unless he dramatically improves his defense he will also be cooked and done by then.

This is true. Its a tough list to make. I put Mares on mine but to be honest he likes wars. Those type of fighters don't tend to have longevity.

[BafanaBafana]

Probably some of the guys who could be there in any order: Andre Ward, Mikey Garcia, Mares, Santa Cruz, Saul Alvarez, Broner, GGG, Andrade, Matthysse, Kovalev, Fortuna, Rigo (unless retired), Roman Gonzalez, Wilder (if well managed), ...

Maybe something like this:

1. Andre Ward
2. Adrien Broner
3. Mikey Garcia
4. GGG
5. Andrade
6. Mares
7. Alvarez
8. Santa Cruz
9. Rigondeaux
10. Roman Gonzalez

[Dodger07]

Ward
Mikey Garcia
Rigondeaux
Matthysse
Wlad
Golovkin
Broner
Roman Gonzales
Canelo
Russel Jr

[sicko]

No direspect but that Is A ***in Awful Ranking! That would mean boxing is really struggling if that is the Top 10 5 years from now

[SCtrojansbaby]

Chad Dawson, they're the same age.

Kovalev.

Right at this moment in time I wouldn't pick him to beat Hopkins.

I wouldn't even pick him to beat Cloud.

I wouldn't pick him to beat Cleverly in a rematc

Everybody knows Dawson destroyed his body going down to SMW. He's also made a lot of money and is one of the few guys who actually has a stable life. He'll be out of boxing in 3 years or less

Kovalev is a good fighter but doesn't have the physical tools Bellew has

Cloud isn't on Bellew's level and probable won't even be a contender in 5 years

Cleverly is good but its pretty clear he hasn't improved at the rate Bellew has

[CraigM]

I'd expect Kal Yafai to be well up there

[IronDanHamza]

Everybody knows Dawson destroyed his body going down to SMW. He's also made a lot of money and is one of the few guys who actually has a stable life. He'll be out of boxing in 3 years or less

Kovalev is a good fighter but doesn't have the physical tools Bellew has

Cloud isn't on Bellew's level and probable won't even be a contender in 5 years

Cleverly is good but its pretty clear he hasn't improved at the rate Bellew has

And what tools are these? Bellew is not great on the front foot and seems to lack genuine killer instinct and he's proved time and time again he's hopeless on the back foot.

His best win is what? A shot to pieces Edison Miranda in which despite dominating he didn't look good at all.

He's not an overly hard puncher and he's shown he doesn't have a great chin either.

Simply put, you're dreaming if you genuinely believe Tony Bellew will ever see the P4P list but I don't think you're serious, to be honest.

You do these '"My prediction of the future P4P list" threads quite often and they're always quite different and more bizarre every time.

Last time you said Hernandez would be P4P #2 and now he's not even in your list for no other reason than activity

And as for Cloud not being a contender in 5 years time, I expect that to be true but I don't think Bellew will be either.

[dan_cov]

Here is my predictions from 21-10-2011

Gamboa
Donaire.
Rigondeux
Alvarez.
Wlad.
Froch.
Sillakh
Rakhim Chahkhiev.
Mayweather

Not sure why I put Sillakh, I was never sold on the guy.


Now I'd have to go with.
Rigondeaux
Roman Gonzalez
Rakhim Chakhkiev
Kal Yafai
Errol Spence
Kovalev
Andre Ward

Stuck for another 3. Would have Gamboa but I can see awful matchmaking ruining him.

[thuggery]

Matthysse
Canelo
GGG
Mares
Mikey Garcia
Wlad

[IronDanHamza]

Here is my predictions from 21-10-2011

Gamboa
Donaire.
Rigondeux
Alvarez.
Wlad.
Froch.
Sillakh
Rakhim Chahkhiev.
Mayweather

Not sure why I put Sillakh, I was never sold on the guy.


Now I'd have to go with.
Rigondeaux
Roman Gonzalez
Rakhim Chakhkiev
Kal Yafai
Errol Spence
Kovalev
Andre Ward

Stuck for another 3. Would have Gamboa but I can see awful matchmaking ruining him.

D-MAC will be bottom half of the 10.

One behind Bellew..