Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Top Ten Pound-For-Pound

Here's my pound-for-pound list. I take into account ability and accomplishment. The previous list was posted on December 31, 2018.

1. Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) [1]
2. Saul Alvarez (51-1-2, 35 KOs) [2]
3. Gennady Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs) [3]
4. Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) [4]
5. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (47-4-1, 41 KOs) [5]
6. Naoya Inoue (17-0, 16 KOs) [6]
7. Leo Santa Cruz (36-1-1, 19 KOs) [7]
8. Olexandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) [8]
9. Errol Spence (25-0, 21 KOs) [9]
10. Mikey Garcia (38-1, 30 KOs) [10]

1. Lomachenko has a fight with Anthony Crolla in 10 days. Though Crolla is better than his record Lomachenko does need an impressive win to keep his top spot.

2. Canelo fights the best and he's doing it again with the Jacobs fight on May 4.

4. Crawford fights Amir Khan on April 20. This is his best opponent since 2016 when he beat Viktor Postol. Since then, Crawford has fought second rate guys. He potentially has the skills, but he doesn't have the resume of the guys ahead of him.

5. SSR faces Juan Francisco Estrada again on April 26.

6. Inoue faces Emmanuel Rodriguez on May 18 in the World Boxing Super Series.

9. Spence just dominated a small Mikey Garcia. He showed the skills to vault up the list, but doesn't have the resume. Hopefully, he fights the Crawford-Khan winner next.

10. Despite Garcia's embarrassing loss to Spence, he stays at 10. Garcia was the naturally smaller man. The other fighters in contention for a top ten spot don't yet have the resume. There are a lot of candidates: Anthony Joshua, Olexandr Gvozdyk, Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia, Luis Nery, Daniel Jacobs, Dmitry Bivol, Regis Prograis, Josh Taylor, and Gervonta Davis just to name a few contenders.

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