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Wlad deserves to be p4p #1 with Floyd gone, especially if he beats Fury, but:
1. Old school US/UK boxing journalists would never let that happen.
2. He's a heavyweight and when a heavyweight is p4p #1 we start to ask what the point of the list even is.
So the consensus will likely be Roman short term, then Kovalev/Ward will build up a p4p rivalry and make the list relevant again.
147 is a house of cards waiting to topple. So many of these guys are not that special but were prematurely hyped as "the anti-Floyd". Without Floyd around people will take a more honest look at 147 and be fairly underwhelmed.
154 is likewise a vacuum. Floyd was never really the man there - the best fighter perhaps but you can't call a guy who took 2 catchweight bouts the man in a division without extrapolating. Canelo needs to drop the gimmick and admit he's a middleweight, he usually fights heavier than Golovkin.
Not sure if there will be a new public enemy on that level. It will be hard to find that delicate recipe of an extremely talented boxer who is also extremely boring, beats his family members, films his own racial rants, collects tacky $2,000,000 cars and wears women's horse jockey pants. Most of those flamboyant guys are Broner types who flash in the pan then lose focus and get KTFO. They rarely stick around as long as Floyd. He was a very different, highly disciplined person as soon as he laced up.
New face of the sport?? It will split geographically and ethnically like it always does. Let's not forget, pre-fight, Floyd spend his best days as "that other guy" while Pacquaio was the face of the sport, always being interviewed on latenight TV and namedropped in MMA.
Canelo recovers a lot of fans who abandoned him without Floyd in the picture. Crawford gets Floyd's fans and any potential Crawford opponents are immediately hyped until the division seems stacked (147 effect). GGG remains about where he is. Dark horse: Tyson Fury could become very popular in the UK if he does the impossible. They have a strong fanbase but are going through a bit of a dryspell lately, having to choose between the likes of Khan and bumbeater Brook.
1. Old school US/UK boxing journalists would never let that happen.
2. He's a heavyweight and when a heavyweight is p4p #1 we start to ask what the point of the list even is.
So the consensus will likely be Roman short term, then Kovalev/Ward will build up a p4p rivalry and make the list relevant again.
147 is a house of cards waiting to topple. So many of these guys are not that special but were prematurely hyped as "the anti-Floyd". Without Floyd around people will take a more honest look at 147 and be fairly underwhelmed.
154 is likewise a vacuum. Floyd was never really the man there - the best fighter perhaps but you can't call a guy who took 2 catchweight bouts the man in a division without extrapolating. Canelo needs to drop the gimmick and admit he's a middleweight, he usually fights heavier than Golovkin.
Not sure if there will be a new public enemy on that level. It will be hard to find that delicate recipe of an extremely talented boxer who is also extremely boring, beats his family members, films his own racial rants, collects tacky $2,000,000 cars and wears women's horse jockey pants. Most of those flamboyant guys are Broner types who flash in the pan then lose focus and get KTFO. They rarely stick around as long as Floyd. He was a very different, highly disciplined person as soon as he laced up.
New face of the sport?? It will split geographically and ethnically like it always does. Let's not forget, pre-fight, Floyd spend his best days as "that other guy" while Pacquaio was the face of the sport, always being interviewed on latenight TV and namedropped in MMA.
Canelo recovers a lot of fans who abandoned him without Floyd in the picture. Crawford gets Floyd's fans and any potential Crawford opponents are immediately hyped until the division seems stacked (147 effect). GGG remains about where he is. Dark horse: Tyson Fury could become very popular in the UK if he does the impossible. They have a strong fanbase but are going through a bit of a dryspell lately, having to choose between the likes of Khan and bumbeater Brook.
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