I don't care about resumes, Lopez is the best of the four. After the kambosa fight I thought his medical excuse was just an excuse but watching the fights where he's healthy you can see his skills sets him apart from the rest.
Tank is also a good fighter with a shiety resume. He'd beat Haney worse than ryan did.
After Saturday which one of the young guns of this era had the most sensational wins even with the lossess.
- Tank Davis (beat Ryan, Barrios, Pitbull, Leo Santa Cruz, etc.)
- Teofimo Lopez (beat Loma, Taylor, Commey, Nakatani, etc.)
- Ryan Garcia (beat Haney, Luke Campbell, Fortuna, etc.)
- Devin Haney (beat Prograis, Loma (allegedly), Jojo Diaz, Linares, etc.)
Bonus: Shakur (beat Valdez, Conceicao, Herring, Nakathila, etc.)
In the name of consistency if you're going to call the Loma victory for Haney alleged, which is fine, then you got to do the same for Davis versus Pitbull. Many people think Pitbull won their fight. I do.
I think they're pretty even. If you look at the Santa Cruz win for tank Santa Cruz is really a smaller fighter. Tank cherry picked and made sure Ryan was a skeleton as well. So those two victories don't count for much I guess we can take tank out of the equation for the best.
Loma is a good name, Lopez straight out beat him so let's assume Lopez has a better resume than Haney who fought a controversial fight with Loma.
Haney is a good victory and he's prime for prime in that group so I guess we have to give Garcia top honors followed by Lopez then I guess Haney and finally Davis.
Which is why lineal is arbitrary and barely better than any other metric. Especially when we're talking about Haney who entered the ring vs Kambosos at least as a welterweight at minimum. He regularly rehydrates 25 lbs. Here you are quibbling about 3 lbs at weigh in when Ryan was the first opponent who was actually the same size as Haney. At the end of the day, they were the same size and Ryan won.
I'll go on farther. I'll give Ryan top honors because he fought one of the other top guys prime for prime and won. If we're really looking carefully at these fights you can't seriously look at the Ryan that showed up against Davis as having any ability to fight. I mean it would be like sticking somebody in a cell starving them, and then telling them to go fight in the Colosseum in Rome lol.
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