I'll do mine in order...
I did mine based on respect/popularity growth and what they did in the ring..
1. Pavlik...... 3 career altering T/KO's against 3 highly respected fighters... he hit all 3 of them(miranda, taylor, zertuche) so hard that it was reasonable for any of them to retire after fighting him, and two of them are in their 20's.... he possibly knocked all of them out of their prime in 45 mins or less.. absolutely devastating power for 160....
2. Baby Bull Diaz... won 2 unified championship fights convincingly
3. Calzaghe.... blew out manfredo... broke down kessler... no broke hands
4. Cotto.... solidified his "the next great out of Puerto Rico" status
5. Mayweather.... went from a great from our time to a great of all time
6. Hatton... in his two fights this year against urango and castillo hatton only lost one round combined...and blew out castillo..
7. Klitschko.. hasnt lost a round this year... two blow out KO's against Austin and at the time seemed like one of his biggest threats Brewster.
8. Haye... fulfilled his potential... beat the man of his division
9. Pauli M.... went from just another Cotto victim to a respected, slick boxing champion.. in his two fights of the year (N'dou E. Cherry) he only lost 2 rounds combined
10. P. Williams... he only fought once but won a title and alot of people think he has the best chance matching up to the P4P #1 Floyd May...... he started the year a contender..
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