Gennady Golovkin is now ranked #1 P4P by ESPN

[Mr.Fantastic]

Just great! Now people are going to start kneeling at boxing events cause of this. The oppression of Crawford not being #1 with a weaker resume.

[The Hammer]

Where does the fair and objective Boxrec computer have him ranked?

Edit: Just looked it up myself. Seems GGG is 3rd behind Terence Crawford and the new #1 Saul Canelo Alvarez

Well so much for espn's rankings. If Freedom has taught me anything it's that we all must bow to the will of the Boxrec computer. It has spoken!

BoxRec may be computer-generated and so fair and objective, but they go by "official" decisions.

So although GGG should have won a decision over Canelo, the computer accepts the draw as reality.

Similarly, although Mayweather lost to Castillo in their first fight, the BoxRec computer goes by the "official" decision and so ranks Floyd higher than he actually deserves.

[JK1700]

Yo me they're doing the same thing they did with Roman Gonzalez. Neither him or Golovkin have looked good in a LOOOOOONG time. So I don't see any justification for it when you have guys fighting similar levels of talent and completely dominating them.

Yeah people thought Roman being p4p#1 was wrong but he actually beat several top guys across 4 weight divisions. Yutaka Niida, Katsunari Takayama, Juan Estrada, Akira Yaegashi, Edgar Sosa, Brian Viloria, Carlos Cuadras. That's a FAR better resume than GGG's. If you take away his controversial fights with Canelo and Jacobs, what's his best win? David Lemieux or Daniel Geale? p4p#1? Please! His resume is a joke. Exciting to watch yes but he's ridiculously overrated.

You can't be p4p#1 with no convincing wins over top guys.

[future hendrixx]

hey fat dan ^^

[T-1000]

Well deserved.

[JK1700]

Good news for Canelo this means he'll be p4p#1 after he wins the rematch.

GGG better than Ali with zero convincing wins against top guys?

[Raonic]

It's a ballot of like 9 writers and many had GGG right behind Ward, who just retired.

[_original_]

I guess so, nobody else has a strong claim right now. It feel weird though having a guy who looked sensational fighting bums then stepped up in class and had could've-gone-either-way type fights as number 1.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Since Roy Jones left the number 1 spot, the pound for pound rankings is just a popularity contest.

[ELPacman]

lol, just let the man have it, even if it's only by 1 publication. He's what? 35? 36? He won't have it much longer or ever again.

I really hate to say it, but GGG truly missed the super stardom train by about 7 years. If you think he's slipping, yeah, most likely he is. He's out of his prime already and only got great conditioning that makes up for his age. Don't be surprised at all if GGG's next fight is against a lesser known opponent and he takes a "L".