Comments Thread For: Out with the Old (Man): BScene’s Pound for Pound Top Ten

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What have you done versus what have you done lately?

In deciding how to weigh the various fighters across boxing’s seventeen weight classes there are all sorts of variables taken into account. Ultimately, they often come down to that simple question in determining who should be there at all.
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[HaglerSteelChin]

The list is pretty good but i think Mosley should be lower since he has been inactive for 15 months. I know guys ducked him but he should have taken fights.

[Check_hooks]

so JMM is better than both of the klitchskos? and wtf isnt hopkins in the list, he hasnt aged muched at all and is coming off one of his biggest fights in his career....

[Doctor_Tenma]

Pretty good list.

[Dambala]

Good, good list. Finally B-Hop is out, and Bradley, Dawson and Williams got well deserved spots. I would've put the Klitcshkos there but the list still good.

[-EX-]

Calderon has been quiet lately IMO...idk if he should be on there instead of Bernard...

[AC-Voltage]

Cotto isnt even in your picture of top ten? Not getting that.... I think Dirrel should be on the short list also. Not really liking Calderon in there, and I agree Hopkins is out.

[Steelhammer2011]

Terrible list.

Both Klitschkos should be in the Top 10 P4P.

Ring Magazine's Doug Fischer: "The Klitschko Brothers are both in my Top 10 P4P list."

http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1755/dougies_monday_mailbag/

I agree with your reasoning. I used to keep heavyweights off my personal P4P but then I thought “Why not include them if they’re worthy?” I think both Klitschko brothers deserve pound-for-pound top-10 inclusion. They’ve got the accomplishments, skill and talent to merit it. I’m not part of the magazine’s decision making process on the ratings, but I do occasionally compile my own P4P top 10 list for the Yahoo! Sports rankings poll that Kevin Iole puts together every few weeks. I missed the deadline for the most recent poll but here’s my list, which I put together before Wladimir beat Chambers (hey, why let it go to waste?):

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Shane Mosley
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. Chad Dawson
6. Juan Manuel Marquez
7. (tie) Wladimir & Vitali Klitschko
9. Paul Williams
10. Hozumi Hasegawa

So there you have it. I think the K Brothers are in the mix with JM Marquez and P-Will. And note that Cotto and Donaire aren‘t in the top 10.

[Earl-Hickey]

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Shane Mosley
4. Hozumi Hasegawa
5. Wladimir Klitschko
6. Vitali Klitschko
7. Timothy Bradley
9. David Haye
10. Thomasz Adamek

My personal top 10

[Motofan]

Berto could be in the top 10 shortly? Really?