Providing that Pac/Floyd doesn't get made in the next year this is what I feel the P4P list could look like a year from now.
1) Pacquiao
2) Sergio or PBF, you decide.
3) Sergio or PBF, you decide.
4) JMM
5) *Winner of the fight between the Montiel/Donaire winner vs. Bantamweight tournament winner* [1].
6) *Winner of the Super-Middleweight tournament vs. Lucian Bute or Mikkel Kessler* [2].
7) *The dominant Junior-Welterweight* [3]
8) The dominant Featherweight (e.g. Juanma Lopez, Chris John or Gamboa).
9) Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
10) The dominant Light-Heavyweight (e.g. Pascal, Hopkins or Dawson).
Notes:
[1] The Montiel/Donaire winner would be top-10 P4P anyway, but if they were to beat, or be beaten, by the Bantamweight tournament winner, that fighter should be #5 P4P, perhaps even 4th ahead of JMM.
[2] The winner of the SMW tournament would also be top-10 P4P. BTW, I currently have Carl Froch in my P4P list as I think his resume is superb and is also undefeated IMO (I had him drawing against Kessler, not losing). If the winner of this tournament fights Kessler (he is promised a fight with the tournament winner) or Lucian Bute (another top fighter), then the winner of these fights would be #6 P4P IMO.
[3] JWW is one of the best divisions in the sport, and the winners of Khan/Maidana and Bradley/Alexander are probably going to fight each other in the summer. This would determine the lineal championship at JWW and unify the division too. I think that the lineal champ at 140 deserves to be #7 P4P.
** I've purposefully left out all Heavyweights (e.g. Wlad, Vitali and Haye) as I think that Heavyweights shouldn't be in P4P lists.
Your thoughts and predictions? Who do you think will win the above tournaments and match-ups?
1) Pacquiao
2) Sergio or PBF, you decide.
3) Sergio or PBF, you decide.
4) JMM
5) *Winner of the fight between the Montiel/Donaire winner vs. Bantamweight tournament winner* [1].
6) *Winner of the Super-Middleweight tournament vs. Lucian Bute or Mikkel Kessler* [2].
7) *The dominant Junior-Welterweight* [3]
8) The dominant Featherweight (e.g. Juanma Lopez, Chris John or Gamboa).
9) Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
10) The dominant Light-Heavyweight (e.g. Pascal, Hopkins or Dawson).
Notes:
[1] The Montiel/Donaire winner would be top-10 P4P anyway, but if they were to beat, or be beaten, by the Bantamweight tournament winner, that fighter should be #5 P4P, perhaps even 4th ahead of JMM.
[2] The winner of the SMW tournament would also be top-10 P4P. BTW, I currently have Carl Froch in my P4P list as I think his resume is superb and is also undefeated IMO (I had him drawing against Kessler, not losing). If the winner of this tournament fights Kessler (he is promised a fight with the tournament winner) or Lucian Bute (another top fighter), then the winner of these fights would be #6 P4P IMO.
[3] JWW is one of the best divisions in the sport, and the winners of Khan/Maidana and Bradley/Alexander are probably going to fight each other in the summer. This would determine the lineal championship at JWW and unify the division too. I think that the lineal champ at 140 deserves to be #7 P4P.
** I've purposefully left out all Heavyweights (e.g. Wlad, Vitali and Haye) as I think that Heavyweights shouldn't be in P4P lists.
Your thoughts and predictions? Who do you think will win the above tournaments and match-ups?
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