Comments Thread For: Why Atlas Leaving Golovkin Off His P4P List is Deeply Flawed

[Motorcity Cobra]

An article just about Atlas P4P list? Everybody knows that list was BS but what's the point of writing an article about it? Rafael and ESPN have put out some shit lists but nobody writes an article about it. Especially that list that put GGG on as one of the best fighters of the past 25 years. This guy DKSAB. After the GGG fight he said Kell Brook would be the best fighter at 154. It's obvious what his agenda is. And he also writes for Ring. And he's black. But he didn't feel a need to address those racist emails.

[dan_cov]

All p4p lists are flawed its just something people pull out of their ar5e5!

[StrangerInTown]

Just another ludicrous Atlas effort to get his name in the sporting pages. Without Friday Night Fights or a high profile training gig, Teddy has to battle for relevance in any way possible.

[Shadoww702]

An article just about Atlas P4P list? Everybody knows that list was BS but what's the point of writing an article about it? Rafael and ESPN have put out some shit lists but nobody writes an article about it. Especially that list that put GGG on as one of the best fighters of the past 25 years. This guy DKSAB. After the GGG fight he said Kell Brook would be the best fighter at 154. It's obvious what his agenda is. And he also writes for Ring. And he's black. But he didn't feel a need to address those racist emails.

Yeah they want to make fun of this list but NOT NARVAEZ P4P List???

Who has

Canyellow #2
Kovalov 4 spots higher than Ward
Crawford #7
#8 Ward
WILDER #9???

or

Collins list with

#6 Inoue???

Platti with

#9 Oscar Valdez

And three of the 10 have Kovalov over Ward??? I get it if they think it was a gift?? But that's like saying Atlanta won the Superbowl because they blew out the Pats the 1st 3 QTRS? Or Manny Pac was kicking JMM ass until the "lucky punch"??? End of the day they can cry about it but NOT ANY boxing sites have Ward with a loss and Kovalov still undefeated...

But they sht on Atlas list??? I don't agree with some of the spots but it's a VERY solid list!

[Shadoww702]

All p4p lists are flawed its just something people pull out of their ar5e5!

EXACTLY??? We all tend to pick our favorite over another one even when they're very close to each other.

Atlas I GURANTEE will jump GGG up to at LEAST #7 if he blows out Jacobs or looks really good? He's getting blasted for WHAT??? Not putting GGG in the Top #10 P4P because he beat a WW in Brook??? Whats that say when a WW is your TOUGHEST fight at MW??? FK Broner looked AWESOME until he stepped up his competition. He was on MANY P4P list also. Now look where he's at??? Still VERY, VERY talented but not like we used to remember him??? Everyone was calling him the NEXT Mayweather for Christ SAKE???

[LoadedWraps]

If pacquiao is too high at #9 and bradley is missing from the list, doesnt that mean that bradley would be ahead of pacquiao on your p4p? In what universe should bradley be ahead of pacquiao on anyones p4p?

In my universe.

Pacquiao is the only ww able to beat Bradley and Pacquiao is on his way out.

Considering the fact that no current ww can beat Bradley when Pac is gone, I rate him both highly, and higher.

You're on crack. You want Bradley to be included who Pacquiao used him to mop the floor and you said Pacquiao is too high? Pacquiao should be number one. He bulldozed Vargas easily and no one will do. All the fighters mentioned by Atlas on his list are overrated except of course Pacquiao.

See the explanation above.

And LOL @ you considering a win over Vargas truly significant.

The fact that you call all the other fighters on that list overrated tells us all we need to know about your knowledge of boxing. The only truly overrated fighter on there is Canelo.

[steeve steel]

A respected voice in boxing? LOL The guy is a senile old fart always looking for a good location, location, location to take a dump!

[BostonGuy]

Can't stand Teddy Atlas. He's incredibly biased, pompous, self absorbed prick. There was a stretch back when Wladimir Klitschko was ruling the HW division where Atlas would pick against him in every fight. It so unprofessional of him to make such absurd and biased predictions. I think he even picked Mormeck over Klitschko, that's how unhinged the guy is.

[wildcoqui]

No Danny García in that p4p list hmmm

Atlas has Errol Spence on the list but not Danny García, very interesting... Atlas has Manny Pacquiao on the list but does not have Triple GGG? How come Atlas does not have Paulie Malignaggi on that list? LMAO

Teddy

[aboutfkntime]

By Andreas Hale - Teddy Atlas will always be known as a respected voice in the sport of boxing. However, his recent ESPN column explaining why he left Gennady Golovkin off of his personal pound for pound list is a bit of a head-scratcher. Granted, these lists are wholly subjective and can be entirely nonsensical but it is about as close as we can come to ranking the best fighters regardless of division.
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I got Golovkin at 8 and Lomachenko at 4..... but the writer of this article really is whining, and he totally missed the point

P4P is subjective/opinion, therefore it is subject to the "eye test" and also to "educated instinct"..... which the average boxing fan simply does not possess..... NOBODY has the right to question/correct Teddy's list..... because, it is Teddy's list

Atlas possesses instincts/knowledge that the writer does not know exist