Welterweight ring rankings may 2009, must read

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done and dusted

all of the top defeated, what a guy

haters can hate but pac beats the best

[Khalid X]

People say this list is old etc., but these were these were the WW rankings a month or so before Manny decided to move to WW full-time.

He went through every guy listed in the top 5, so how anyone can hate on Manny is beyond me.

I mean if you looked at the SMW rankings from Oct 2009 it would look something like this:

1. Mikkel Kessler
2. Lucian Bute
3. Carl Froch
4. Jermain Taylor
5. Robert Stielglitz
6. Arthur Abraham
7. Andre Ward
8. Andre Dirrell
9. Edison Miranda
10. Karoly Balzay

With Bute, Froch, Ward, Dirrell, Abraham being undefeated, Kessler having one loss, and Jermaine Taylor having 3 losses.

If Ward or Froch wins the super six tourney and beat Bute, which will have happened two years after those rankings, are you gonna cry/complain that some of there wins came after another fighter got a win over an opponent before they did?

I mean the average elite fighter fights on average two times a year, and seeing how you can't fight everyone at once, someone is bound to beat a guy before you get to him, especially when it's the best fighting the best.

Lastly, most of those elite SMW's were undefeated but once they entered the supersix tourney against other elite fighters in their weight class, some of those guys lost here and there.

In similar fashion, margarito lost to elite WW's in Williams and Mosley, Mosley lost to Floyd, Cotto lost to Margarito, and Clottey lost controversy decisions to Margarito and Cotto that manny could argue that he was on his way to winning. When elite fighters fight each other, that's what happens but atleast they are fighting each other.