Instead of top 100, would Buakaw be top 10 for his era in kickboxing or MT? He looks like a very good athlete to me.
Lately, I've been toying with the possibility of a top 10 decade by decade analysis to try and focus which fights and fighters I should be watching. I have one for boxing:
1890-1900
1.Bob Fitzsimmons
2.George Dixon
3.Terry McGovern
4.Young Griffo
5.Jack McAullife
6.Tommy Ryan
7.Nonpareil Jack Dempsey
8.Jimmy Barry
9.Charlie Mitchell
10.Jim Corbett
1900-1910s
1.Sam Langford
2.Joe Gans
3.Abe Attell
4.Joe Walcott
5.Jack Johnson
6.Stanley Ketchel
7.James Jeffries
8.Battling Nelson
9.Terry McGovern
10.Jim Driscoll
1910s
1.Jimmy Wilde
2.Johnny Kilbane
3.Georges Carpentier
4.Ted Lewis
5.Jack Britton
6.Freddie Welsh
7.Benny Leonard
8.Jack Johnson
9.Harry Wills
10.Jim Driscoll
1920s
1. Harry Greb
2. Benny Leonard
3. Gene Tunney
4. Mickey Walker
5. Pancho Villa
6. Tommy Loughran
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Bud Taylor
9. Tony Canzoneri
10. Tiger Flowers
1930s
1. Henry Armstrong
2. Joe Louis
3. Barney Ross
4. Tony Canzoneri
5. Jimmy McLarnin
6. Freddie Steele
7. Panama Al Brown
8. Benny Lynch
9. Jack Berg
10. Kid Chocolate
1940s
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Willie Pep
4. Joe Louis
5. Ike Williams
6. Manuel Ortiz
7. Sandy Saddler
8. Billy Conn
9. Jake LaMotta
10. Marcel Cerdan
1950s
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Archie Moore
3. Kid Gavilan
4. Rocky Marciano
5. Pascual Perez
6. Sandy Saddler
7. Gene Fullmer
8. Carmen Basilio
9. Joe Brown
10. Harold Johnson
1960s
1. Eder Jofre
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Carlos Ortiz
4. Emile Griffith
5. Fighting Harada
6. Nino Benvenuti
7. Vicente Saldivar
8. Ruben Olivares
9. Dick Tiger
10. Flash Elorde
1970s
1. Roberto Duran
2. Carlos Monzon
3. Jose Napoles
4. Alexis Arguello
5. Miguel Canto
6. Wilfredo Gomez
7. Carlos Zarate
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Bob Foster
10. Yoko Gushiken
1980s
1. Sugar Ray Leonard
2. Marvin Hagler
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Michael Spinks
5. Tommy Hearns
6. Julio Cesar Chavez
7. Mike Tyson
8. Aaron Pryor
9. Larry Holmes
10. Jeff Chandler
1990s
1. Pernell Whitaker
2. Roy Jones Jr.
3. James Toney
4. Evander Holyfield
5. Julio Cesar Chavez
6. Bernard Hopkins
7. Felix Trinidad
8. Ricardo Lopez
9. Oscar De La Hoya
10. Terry Norris
2000s
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Bernard Hopkins
4. Erik Morales
5. Joe Calzaghe
6. Juan Manuel Marquez
7. Roy Jones Jr.
8. Marco Antonio Barrera
9. Rafael Marquez
10. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
And I'd like to fix up something similar for kickboxing and MT. I came up with a bunch of names but I'm not sure how I'd rank them yet p4p.
MT '00: Saenchai, Sudsakorn, Buakaw, Pajonsuk, Yodsanklai, Khem, Namsaknoi, Anuwat,
MT'90: Dekker, Coban, Jomhod, Sakmongkol, Ubeda, Dany Bill, Jongsanan, Orono, Samkor, Hippolyte, Boonlai, Santiennoi, Rambo
MT'80s: Dieselnoi, Samart, Sagat, Nanfah, Pol
MT'70s: Poot Lorlek
MT'60s: Apidej Sit Hirun
KB'10: Petrosyan
KB'00: Badr Hari, Schilt, Sower, Spong, Bonjasky, Le Banner, Buakaw, Zambidis, JWP, Kraus, Masato
KB'90: Dekkers, Hoost, Hug, Longinidis, Cikatic, Roufus, Aerts, Manson Gibson, Kaman, Ballantine, Petridis,
KB'80: Don Wilson, Alexio, Joe Lewis, Benny Urquidez, Maurice Smith, Jean-Yves Theriault, Rob Kaman, Pete Cunningham, William Blinky Rodriguez
KB'70: Tadashi Sawamura, Noboru Osawa, Toshio Fujiwara,
What do you guys think? Do you ever do this to get a picture of an era in your mind or compare different eras?