Who will be the Fighter of the Decade: 2009-2019?

[Fenster]

Pacquiao with the rest nowhere.

Not only did he cement himself among the pantheon of boxing gods - 2009 to 2011 with the destruction of Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Mosley and beat Marquez, he then came back from his two defeats to Marquez and Floyd (two first ballot HOFers) with wins over Bradley x 2, Broner, Matthysse and pulled the upset over Thurman. His "filler" fights had a combined record of 94-2 and were all "world" champions.

Honorable mentions - Canelo, Chocolatito, Floyd, Ward, Golovkin

[powerpuncher]

Pacquiao with the rest nowhere.

Not only did he cement himself among the pantheon of boxing gods - 2009 to 2011 with the destruction of Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Mosley and beat Marquez, he then came back from his two defeats to Marquez and Floyd (two first ballot HOFers) with wins over Bradley x 2, Broner, Matthysse and pulled the upset over Thurman. His "filler" fights had a combined record of 94-2 and were all "world" champions.

Honorable mentions - Canelo, Chocolatito, Floyd, Ward, Golovkin

Looking at his record for the decade, he actually may edge it out. He beat some really good fighters. I will even things out by saying that he beat Bradley three times (because we all know he beat Bradley in their first fight), and lost to JMM twice (JMM clearly beat him in their third fight). His only knock is that he lost to his two best opponents legitimately. With that said, who else really beat fighters as good as Floyd and JMM?

I would say on quality of opponents and dominance over their opponents, it would have to be either Pacquiao, Floyd, or Ward hands down. Nobody else over that time span has been able to consistently dominate good/great fighters.

[TitoFan]

Pacquiao would be my choice also. Lots of greats on his resume... no periods of prolonged inactivity (which sours me a little on Ward)... no infatuation with the precious "0".... yeah... Pacquiao is the choice for me. Ward fought the real Kovalev, so he gets major votes for that. Floyd would even be a good choice. Exposed more than one wannabe p4p pretender... so he gets points from me on that alone. Beyond those three, I can think of plenty of deserving careers that would get my vote ahead of Canelo.

[Alpha]

I'd say Pac.

[iwng100]

Pacquiao with the rest nowhere.

Not only did he cement himself among the pantheon of boxing gods - 2009 to 2011 with the destruction of Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Mosley and beat Marquez, he then came back from his two defeats to Marquez and Floyd (two first ballot HOFers) with wins over Bradley x 2, Broner, Matthysse and pulled the upset over Thurman. His "filler" fights had a combined record of 94-2 and were all "world" champions.

Honorable mentions - Canelo, Chocolatito, Floyd, Ward, Golovkin

Looking at his record for the decade, he actually may edge it out. He beat some really good fighters. I will even things out by saying that he beat Bradley three times (because we all know he beat Bradley in their first fight), and lost to JMM twice (JMM clearly beat him in their third fight). His only knock is that he lost to his two best opponents legitimately. With that said, who else really beat fighters as good as Floyd and JMM?

I would say on quality of opponents and dominance over their opponents, it would have to be either Pacquiao, Floyd, or Ward hands down. Nobody else over that time span has been able to consistently dominate good/great fighters.

I agree , this is the podium and this is the right order for me. I don't mind switching Pac with Floyd but Andre is pretty much stick on the last spot of the stage, Kovalev is the only p4p fighter on his resume and we all know who won their first fight, even in the second one he wasn't able to outbox Sergey until The Crusher run out of gas.

I'd definitely not take in consideration a cheater who blame the cow.

[Gandalf]

Pacquiao with the rest nowhere.

Not only did he cement himself among the pantheon of boxing gods - 2009 to 2011 with the destruction of Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Mosley and beat Marquez, he then came back from his two defeats to Marquez and Floyd (two first ballot HOFers) with wins over Bradley x 2, Broner, Matthysse and pulled the upset over Thurman. His "filler" fights had a combined record of 94-2 and were all "world" champions.

Honorable mentions - Canelo, Chocolatito, Floyd, Ward, Golovkin

I agree. Manny won me over and that 3 year period was amazing. Pure devastation and gore.

[palmerq]

2009-2019 covers 11 years which is one more than a decade, I checked with my fingers on both hands (i can count to 12 with this method :S)....
Surely results in 2009 don't count for this accolade?

[p4pking]

Of the guys listed Im torn between Loma and Canelo, can't quite decide which one I look more like. Eddie Hearn is definitely the promoter of the decade though. I don't even know what Haymon looks like but I'm positive it's not as close. You all knew this though. Everyone knows it, they just don't say it.

[Gandalf]

2009-2019 covers 11 years which is one more than a decade, I checked with my fingers on both hands (i can count to 12 with this method :S)....
Surely results in 2009 don't count for this accolade?

We are in an age where belts and genders are created at will. Please let us add another year to a decade as well. Pretty please!

[TIC]

a couple of honorable mentions 2010-2019

roman gonzalez, went something like 23-2, with wins over estrada, rodriguez jr, yaegashi, sosa, viloria, arroyo, cuadras, and the first rungvisai fight could have gone his way

kazuto ioka, went 21-2, with wins over sithsamerchai, navarrete, yaegashi, alvarado, reveco twice, arroyo, palicte. both loses to ruenroeng and nietes were controversial. and he fought in a world title fight every year from 2011-2019