Boxing: What's Hot Now: Pound-for-Pound Top Fifty

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Pound-for-Pound Top Fifty Nov 19th 2011, 10:05 Nov 13 2011 One of the easiest ways to get into a debate on boxing is to try and rank the sport’s top practitioners on a pound-for-pound basis. Everyone’s got an opinion and there’s no way to definitely determine who’s right and who’s wrong. Sure Wladimir Klitschko would defeat Manny Pacquiao if they fought each other -- Klitschko outweighs Pac Man by 100 pounds! But if - and this is the big if â€" Klitschko and Pacquiao were in the same weight class and were to match their skills against one another in the ring, which fighter would emerge victorious? Every boxing enthusiast has seen pound-for-pound rankings in various magazines, on the Net and perhaps even on TV. Most of these lists include only ten fighters. Occasionally, you’ll see a pound-for-pound top twenty. So why stop at twenty? In order to provide even more fodder for conversation and debate, here is a pound-for-pound ranking of the top fifty fighters in the world today. 1. Manny Pacquiao (147) 2. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (147) 3. Sergio Martinez (160) 4. Nonito Donaire (118) 5. Juan Manuel Marquez (135) 6. Andre Ward (168) 7. Timothy Bradley (140) 8. Wladimir Klitschko (Heavy) 9. Yuriorkis Gamboa (126) 10. Miguel Cotto (154) 11. Lucian Bute (168) 12. Vitali Klitschko (Heavy) 13. Amir Khan (140) 14. Chris John (126) 15. Orlando Salido (126) 16. Juan Manuel Lopez (126) 17. Fernando Montiel (118) 18. Carl Froch (168) 19. Bernard Hopkins (175) 20. Humberto Soto (135) 21. Giovani Segura (108) 22. Brandon Rios (135) 23. Victor Ortiz (147) 24. Chad Dawson (175) 25. Abner Mares (118) 26. Joseph Agbeko (118) 27. Andre Berto (147) 28. Devon Alexander (140) 29. Shane Mosley (147) 30. Tomasz Adamek (Heavy) 31. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (112) 32. Hugo Cazares (115) 33. Robert Guerrero (135) 34. Ricky Burns (135) 35. Mikkel Kessler (168) 36. Marcos Maidana (140) 37. Tavoris Cloud (175) 38. Toshiaki Nishioka (122) 39. Paul Williams (154) 40. Felix Sturm (160) 41. Yonnhy Perez (118) 42. Sergei Dzindziruk (154) 43. Jean Pascal (175) 44. Vic Darchinyan (118) 45. Glen Johnson (168) 46. Kelly Pavlik (160) 47. Arthur Abraham (168) 48. Omar Narvaez (115) 49. David Haye (Heavy) 50. Steve Cunningham (200) Dropping off the list in recent months: Andre Dirrell (168), Antonio Margarito (154), Marco Antonio Barrera (135), Takashi Uchiyama (130), Rafael Marquez (126), Jhonny Gonzalez (126), Roman Gonzalez (108), Hozumi Hasegawa (126), Ivan Calderon (108). No doubt your top fifty would look much different. Maybe entirely different! Share your thoughts on the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world today on the boxing bulletin board.

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