Most entertaining & least entertaining (boring) champions of last 20 years?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Exciting- mayorga, manny, Tito

Boring- Hopkins, m. Vasquez, Ruiz

[Luilun]

Hopkins did some embarrassing play acting though but yes Ward is a far dirtier fighter. Both were bad to watch but I consider Ward the ugliest elite level boxer I've ever seen.

You are from Espana? What part? I love Spain. Been there many times.

No just my ancestors I'm from California

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Who would you say are the 10 most entertaining championship level fighters of the last 20 years and the 10 most boring?

Entertainers
Felix Trinidad
Juan Manuel Marquez
Erik Morales
Manny Pacquaio
Marco Antonio Barrera
Rafael Marquez
Israel Vazquez
Arturo Gatti
Roman Gonzalez
Diego Corrales

Insomnia curers
Andre Ward
John Ruiz
Sven Ottke
Wladimir Klitshcko
Floyd Mayweather
Ricky Hatton
Shawn Porter
Winky Wright
Bernard Hopkins
Derrick Gainer

I know some will attack me for including Ottke and I know he's unbeaten doe but his fights were boring and ugly. Hopkins I respect as an all-time great fighter but his fights were often ugly and marred by wrestling, holding, injury feigning etc; The rest need no explaining.

Great list except for Wlad and Porter. Wlad scored some pretty bad ass KOs in his day and Porter is always fun to me. He's like a modern day Armstrong, always coming in and making a fight. I like that aggressive style.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Ok. In ring excitement and drama is created when two closely matched fighters fight. I would argue there are no fighters during his era that were his equal or really close which is why most of his fights weren't exciting.

I think most fans appreciate greatness and domination like this and find it entertaining.

Not taking chances-with all due respect I always see this as coded language for Floyd not giving his opponent a chance to get a KO win because he will not fight recklessly once he has a huge lead.

respectfully, how can you not count those things? People pay to see fighters they are entertained by. They don't pay to see fighters they are bored by, right?

You are entitled to your opinion. I just think "entertaining" should be measured by subjective factors, not objective ones.

Fan boy alert

Fan boy alert

Fan boy alert

[FranciscoS]

john ruiz
carlos molina
miguel vazquez


guess which category

Titere Vazquez, the mexican Mayweather

[FranciscoS]

Great list except for Wlad and Porter. Wlad scored some pretty bad ass KOs in his day and Porter is always fun to me. He's like a modern day Armstrong, always coming in and making a fight. I like that aggressive style.

Where is Rigo?, and do not ask me on which class

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Where is Rigo?, and do not ask me on which class

Which class?

[soul_survivor]

Hatton in the boring list? Even from an objective perspective, he brought entertainment in every category, from an all action style to his persona and ability to build a fight. The former, in ring style, is the most important category of course and by some distance. Even if one does not like it, it can not objectively be labelled as boring, which would be along the lines of Wlad or Mayweather.

My top 5 in each category:

Most entertaining - Naz, Pacman, Oscar, MAB and Morales

Most boring - Mayweather, Wlad, Hopkins, Ward and Rigo

[john l]

Wtf??? That guy needs to watch the Tszyu fight!!

And a lot of others imo.I would only put Ruiz prob on there.And even though I respect Porter I'm not crazy about watching him.

[john l]

Hatton in the boring list? Even from an objective perspective, he brought entertainment in every category, from an all action style to his persona and ability to build a fight. The former, in ring style, is the most important category of course and by some distance. Even if one does not like it, it can not objectively be labelled as boring, which would be along the lines of Wlad or Mayweather.

My top 5 in each category:

Most entertaining - Naz, Pacman, Oscar, MAB and Morales

Most boring - Mayweather, Wlad, Hopkins, Ward and Rigo

I know I'm prob in minority but I like watching good tech fighters like May,Ward,Rigo,Hopkins