Mayweather, Pacquiao, Fury, Usyk, Joshua: Top 50 fighters of the 21st century ranked
Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua have been providing us with great entertainment in the ring this century, but it often leads to the question, who’s the best?
There a range of factors to consider, do you go off records? Title defences? Titles won? Undefeated? Most will go for different factors when making their rankings.
Readers of Ranker, along with the company themselves have been making those decisions and have voted and formed a list of the top 50 fighters of the 21st century, so let’s see how your favourite fairs…
50. Arthur Abraham
49. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
48. Jermain Taylor
47. Kelly Pavlik
46. Amir Khan
45. Adonis Stevenson
44. Paul Williams
43. Mikkel Kessler
42. Billy Joe Saunders
41. Danny Garcia
40. Alexander Povetkin
39. David Haye
38. Sergey Kovalev
37. Timothy Bradley
36. Roman Gonzalez
35. Carl Froch
34. Laila Ali
33. Sergio Martinez
32. Guilermo Rigondeaux
31. Ricky Hatton
30. Brian Viloria
29. Deontay Wilder
28. Anthony Joshua
27. Felix Trinidad
26. Joe Calzaghe
25. Marcos Maidana
24. Naseem Hamed
23. Terence Crawford
22. Miguel Cotto
21. Shane Mosley
20. Vitali Klitschko
19. Andre Ward
18. Oscar de la Hoya
17. Oleksandr Usyk
16. Nonito Donaire
15. Wladimir Klitschko
14. Tyson Fury
13. Bernard Hopkins
12. Gennady Golovkin
11. Lennox Lewis
10. Floyd Mayweather Jr
This will surely come in as a huge shock, he dominated large parts of the 21st century so far, boasting a 50-0 record with many widely regarding him as the greatest of all time, let alone this century.
9. Marco Antonio Barrera
Coming in as a three weight class world champions, the Mexican showed his ability to compete by adapting and dominating in different weight classes throughout his career.
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