Whitaker is usually considered a top 10-20 ATG why?

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

List his top 10 victories and explain please

hes undefeated in my eyes he was the man!

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

Forget about a list. All lists are subjective. Whitaker was a superior boxer... The best I've seen. He was a master defensively, great accuracy and work rate, and ring generalship. All the things you want to see in an ATG. At his prime he would beat most if not all the current boxers from LW to MW. Drugs ended his career prematurely but while he was clean he was virtually unbeatable.

great post even on drugs he was still tough to beat!! lol

[boliodogs]

I am not a fan of his and I don't rank him that high. Maybe top 50. Many people rank him high because of his great defense and his very good record of many wins and few loses over solid opposition from 135 up to 154. His fight with Chavez was a fine performance and his wins over Azumah Nelson and winning the 154 pound title from Julio Vasquez are two of his best wins.

[Kagami Taiga]

I am not a fan of his and I don't rank him that high. Maybe top 50. Many people rank him high because of his great defense and his very good record of many wins and few loses over solid opposition from 135 up to 154. His fight with Chavez was a fine performance and his wins over Azumah Nelson and winning the 154 pound title from Julio Vasquez are two of his best wins.

hes definitely higher than top 50. somewhere around top 25.

[Salardo]

He was basically unbeatable until he got old. These are 10 of what I would consider to be the best wins on his resume.

Julio Cesar Chavez (that was no draw)
Oscar de la Hoya (many feel he won)
Buddy McGirt
Azumah Nelson
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Jose Luis Ramirez
Jorge Paez
Roger Mayweather
Rafael Pineda
Greg Haugen

de la Hoya? I watched this fight recently and I am stunned how people can say with a straight face that Whitaker got robbed. He won maybe 3 rounds in the whole fight but again: the clowning changes the way people feel about a fight. All Whitaker did in that fight was clowning, nothing more. De La Hoya clearly won this fight.

[JAB5239]

He had a close as fightvs wilfredo rivera the first time many thought he lost

True, but that has nothing to do with the Chavez fight my friend. That fight wasnt very close in my opinion.

[slicksouthpaw16]

It's the little things with pea that people didn't seem to recognize, like how he moved all the way up to 154 and beat Vasquez, who was not only the first fighter to beat Winky, but the first one to hurt or drop him (something that Mosley, Taylor or Hopkins wasn't able to do) dropping him like 5 times. And Whitaker dominated him.

[The Noose]

Old?he lost to Oscar at 33 and got dominated by Tito at 35

Amazing how people here still dont understand what 'old' means in boxing.

This is so ******. He might be the only fighter who gets credit for wins that he didn't actually win. He lost against JCC and ODH, get over it.

He is not the only fighter. But everyone who has seen Pea - Chavez saw a robbery. its one of the clearest robberies in a big fight ever.

whitaker was the original catch weight king. people make a big deal of him beating chavez. catchweight!

Weight didnt decide what happened that night.

[Baldy]

Can't believe people give De La Hoya that win when we have a tool called YouTube.

[sdcluser]

He was basically unbeatable until he got old. These are 10 of what I would consider to be the best wins on his resume.

Julio Cesar Chavez (that was no draw)
Oscar de la Hoya (many feel he won)
Buddy McGirt
Azumah Nelson
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Jose Luis Ramirez
Jorge Paez
Roger Mayweather
Rafael Pineda
Greg Haugen

and and and he was hooked on coke too and won at super welter (no catchweight).