Comments Thread For: A New Number One: BoxingScene Pound-for-Pound Update

[USMCer]

Rank - Name - Nationality - Record - Division
1 - Terence Crawford - USA - 32-0-0 (23) - Jr. Welterweight
2 - Gennady Golovkin - KAZ - 36-0-1 (33) - Middleweight
3 - Vasyl Lomachenko - UKR - 9-1-0 (7) - Jr. Lightweight
4 - Saul Alvarez - MEX - 49-1-2 (34) - Middleweight
5 - Naoya Inoue - JPN - 13-0-0 (11) - Jr. Bantamweight
6 - Leo Santa Cruz - USA - 33-1-1- (18) - Featherweight
7 - Mikey Garcia - USA - 37-0-0 (30) - Lightweight/ Jr. Welterweight
8 - Guillermo Rigondeaux - CUB - 17-0-0 (11) - Jr. Featherweight
9 - Srisaket Sor Rungvisai - THA - 44-4-1 (40) - Jr. Bantamweight
10 - Keith Thurman - USA - 28-0-0 (22) - Welterweight

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[Combat Talk Radio]

Again, to be P4P it helps a lot if you beat other P4P or elite guys.

And in my book, the better the guy you beat, the higher you get ranked.

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With all that said (and probably criteria I am leaving out) here is my current P4P top 10.

1) Crawford
2) Spence
3) M. Garcia
4) S. Alvarez
5) K. Thurman
6) Kovalev
7) Golovkin
8) Usyk
9) Lomachenko
10) Rigondeaux

In one breath, you say a guy needs to beat a P4P.

You then post a list that excludes the ONE guy who beat a P4P in everyone else's eyes.

Explain that.

[1hourRun]

Glad to see the American on top ( as it should be ) but Canelo beat Triple-Duck and really is #1.

[kingstip9]

If they correctly scored the Canelo fight then Golovkin would be P4P number one

[TheCell8]

1-8 is solid.

But I don't agree with the last two at all. Sor needs more fights, and wins, at the top level to be considered P4P. If he beats Estrada then fine. But beating Chocolatito shouldn't catapult him up there.

Also, LSC needs more high level wins.

[H.B.Viper]

Could a man be crowned P4P but not be the best in his own division?
Or never fought the best in his weight class?
Does that make any sense?
When he beats Horn does that make Bud the best Welter on the planet?

[Chuckguy]

Ok refresh my memory
Why should Spence be ranked who has he beat? Why are ggg and canelo even in the top 5? How is mikey on the list?

[Bronx2245]

Exactly what I was thinking... I like Mikey, but with such inactivity in recent years, I find it hard to put him in the top 10, much less the top 5 when a clearly deserving Spence gets left off the list.

Mikey is 37-0, w/ 30 KOs! He beat Zlaticanin @ 135, with one of the top KOs of 2017, and then beat Broner @ 140 in the same year! He's not going anywhere on my list! I'd take Loma off before Mikey, becuase Mikey has put in work in the past and this year! Marriaga and Sosa is not getting it done for me!

[P4Pdunny]

Spence is my man but he can't be put on here till he beats another 1/2 top ww's. I feel the Brook fight was a good win, Brook was on top early on he managed to weather storms and break him mentally.

[TBear]

Realize ratings can be subjective, especially p4p ratings, but I have little to no problems with these choices.