Pound for Pound misinterpreted!!

[Dick-Sucker]

Pound for Pound = The best fighters at any division. So basically all round skill and ability in the ring.

Yet Jermain Taylor and Winky Wright Make many peoples top 10. Ahead of Mikkel Kessler. The only reason why i see these two make it ahead of Kessler, is based on previous achievements, such as multiple title world champions etc etc. Jermain is coming off a loss to Kelly. And Winky to Hopkins.

And i just can't see how any of them beat Kessler at any division at the moment. Kessler is a better all round fighter i believe. No disrespect to Taylor and Winky because there great, and its unfair to judge Winky now because hes past his peak. But Pound for pound is best fighters at any division and Kessler is better than Taylor and Winky at the moment.

It seems to me that many people are mixing up there pound for pound list, for achievements such as multiple belts. E.G Just because a fighter has unified a division (could be a weak division), doesn't mean hes better than a fighter that has one belt in a strong division), this is the basis of my pound for pound judgements.

Interested to hear your thoughts everyone?

Cheers. Ult

[squealpiggy]

I think you are misinterpreting what p4p is all about. P4P is about who would be likely to win if weight were not an issue, ie if everyone was the same size. And following that rationale do you think that Kessler would beat the Junior Middleweight version of Winky? Because I don't.

Forget Taylor though, I don't think many people rate Taylor P4P anyway.

[pelonxsoldier28]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pound-for-pound is the term used in boxing, mixed martial arts and other combat sports to describe a fighter's value in relation to fighters of different weight classes.
It is often said to have been created to describe world Welterweight and Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson.[1] Robinson is one of the most accomplished fighters of all time, but his supporters realized that, while he could beat anyone in his own class, as a Middleweight he would not be able to beat a top Heavyweight. Hence, Robinson was called the pound-for-pound best without being expected to beat much larger fighters, under the belief that he as a Middleweight was still a better quality fighter than any fighter fighting at heavier or lighter weights than him.