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PACQUIAO POUND FOR POUND KING, GUESS WHO IS #2?
11 July, 2006 by Cliff Rold
FIRST EVER “24-KARAT” POUND FOR POUND LIST!
I have to be honest. I hate the whole concept of a pound for pound list. Under the modern standard the man who the concept originated with, Sugar Ray Robinson, would have been moved in and out of the list for years because he had the audacity to fight top competition and lose occasionally. In my opinion, no one should carry the label ‘pound for pound” until they retire. After all, look at where Azumah Nelson was ranked most of his career versus how he is regarded in retrospect. That, however, is not the state of modern boxing. Let’s face it; fans like lists and as part of the growing debate over Floyd Mayweather, I shouldn’t criticize without a list of my own.
THE TEN BEST FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD REGARDLESS OF WEIGHT!
It’s going to take until about number two for the questions of “Are you kidding?” to start rolling in, but this is why I’m right: I’ve actually seen every fighter on my list and every active titlist in the game at least once which is more than almost any journalist in the United States can say….and that ain’t bragging. It’s gospel. My criteria is simple: if you fight the best guys around, win most of the time, and are always in the fight by a point or two, you get props because that will be a reflection of your total and recent career. I don’t reward highlight reels, hip-hop credibility or exhibition bouts but I will reward my own opinions and hunches. If you’re the best, you’ve been proving it.
1.
Manny Pacquiao (42-3-2, 33 KO’S)
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11 July, 2006 by Cliff Rold
FIRST EVER “24-KARAT” POUND FOR POUND LIST!
I have to be honest. I hate the whole concept of a pound for pound list. Under the modern standard the man who the concept originated with, Sugar Ray Robinson, would have been moved in and out of the list for years because he had the audacity to fight top competition and lose occasionally. In my opinion, no one should carry the label ‘pound for pound” until they retire. After all, look at where Azumah Nelson was ranked most of his career versus how he is regarded in retrospect. That, however, is not the state of modern boxing. Let’s face it; fans like lists and as part of the growing debate over Floyd Mayweather, I shouldn’t criticize without a list of my own.
THE TEN BEST FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD REGARDLESS OF WEIGHT!
It’s going to take until about number two for the questions of “Are you kidding?” to start rolling in, but this is why I’m right: I’ve actually seen every fighter on my list and every active titlist in the game at least once which is more than almost any journalist in the United States can say….and that ain’t bragging. It’s gospel. My criteria is simple: if you fight the best guys around, win most of the time, and are always in the fight by a point or two, you get props because that will be a reflection of your total and recent career. I don’t reward highlight reels, hip-hop credibility or exhibition bouts but I will reward my own opinions and hunches. If you’re the best, you’ve been proving it.
1.
Manny Pacquiao (42-3-2, 33 KO’S)
Read the Rest Here...
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