The guys I view as top tier WW’s are Thurman, Spence, and Brook (although he appears to be done now). Let’s take a wait and see approach with a guy like Crawford.
I don’t view Garcia as a top tier WW. In fact, I think Porter would beat him comfortably. Garcia has a punchers’ chance though. For me, Porter beating Garcia is the equivalent of Josh Clottey beating up smaller guys like Judah & Corrales. You need a real WW to beat a guy like Porter. Garcia’s high status is due to great matchmaking.
He has a great formula of fighting washed up “names.” You already know they were scouting Ortiz and Alexander. He will occasionally take a 50/50 fight if the risk is worth it.
Lets not single Swift out when damn near the majority of boxers are like this nowadays with this era of businessmen.
Danny to his credit fought as the underdog in 2 of his biggest wins in addition to having other tough fights throughout his career.
There's this undefeated multi division champion nikka in a lot of people's top 5 p4p lists right now, that has never been in anything close to a 50/50 fight.
Canelo played UK career mode and Son of a Legend mode in the span of 2 years before fighting GGG.
Lara for all his skill and elite status been fighting scrubs and fringe contenders for a hot minute before this Hurd fight popped up.
Swift doesn't have some type of special cheat code or formula. Most boxers got it and some are using it even better than Swift.