Comments Thread For: BoxingScene Pound-For-Pound: Jan. 2019 Update

[MEXfistology]

This is probably the ******est pound for pound list ive seen in a lobg time. Terrence crawford #1?? Lmao, what p4p fighter has crawfor beaten? Just give me 3 top elite fighters hes fought...his biggest names are a way smaller midget gamboa, a gunshot wounded jose benavidez , and a overrated victor postol lollllll thats the best p4p in the world?????
Lomachenko struggled with gervonta davis leftovers a few weeks ago, and prior to that he got dropped by a class b fighter in linares, the guy is weight bullying lightweights instead of moving up and testing the real monsters at 147, and hes #2 on the list??

[Scipio2009]

Thats why I am not a fan of these types of fights. Mikey has like a 3% chance of winning, if it breaks for him that night and he gets the win he gets all the laurels. If, in all likelihood, Mikey loses he still gets lauded for fighting an opponent where he had little chance of winning. I'd rather see someone 'dare to be great' by consistently fighting at their peak level of greatness (best weight class), as opposed to fighting where they are not their best.

Conversely, with a win, Spence at best gets more name recognition but will get no respect from the boxing community at large. He is the one who is taking the risk here, because he is the one with something to lose (a loss here really stunts his career).

Errol Spence Jr is headlining the first FOX PPV, with the Fox Sports machine pushing him, in a fight from AT&T Stadium that draw sizable business due to having a viable dance partner.

Thurman-Spence isn't happening until Keith is all the way back, but with a win, Spence is still looking at the Porter-Ugas winner to unify the WBC belt, Pacquiao (if he beats Broner), and likely Danny Garcia as viable options for his second fight of the year, will all three matchups viable for PPV.

You add the Thurman fight likely for 20/20, and Spence is at most three events from being a PPV attraction in his own right.

Mikey doesn't step up, and what are we looking at? Thurman on his injury tour, Shawn/Kenny making it absolutely clear that they don't want any of the smoke, Danny Garcia rebuilding some momentum, Manny Pacquiao possibly being willing to take the fight in the Fall, and Terence Crawford floating Bob Arum on ESPN.

It'd be Spence vs Ugas, possibly for Las Vegas (in a perfect world, the fight would be in Dallas, at the home of the Mavericks, but no idea what that relationship is like), on FOX, with Mikey fighting Richard Commey on Showtime.

[Drew Bundini Br]

1. Crawford

2. Canelo

3. Spence

4. Wilder

5. Gg

6. M. Garcia

7. Lomo

8. Joshua

9. ??

10. ??