Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Boxing: Most Popular Articles: Pound-for-Pound Top Fifty

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Pound-for-Pound Top Fifty
Aug 22nd 2012, 11:11

Updated August 20, 2012

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. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (154)
2. Manny Pacquiao (147)
3. Sergio Martinez (160)
4. Nonito Donaire (122)
5. Juan Manuel Marquez (140)
6. Andre Ward (168)
7. Wladimir Klitschko (Heavy)
8. Timothy Bradley (147)
9. Yuriorkis Gamboa (126)
10. Miguel Cotto (154)
11. Vitali Klitschko (Heavy)
12. Orlando Salido (126)
13. Chris John (126)
14. Abner Mares (122)
15. Saul Alvarez (154)
16. Carl Froch (168)
17. Chad Dawson (175)
18. Anselmo Moreno (118)
19. Adrien Broner (135)
20. Lucian Bute (168)
21. Devon Alexander (147)
22. Danny Garcia (140
23. Amir Khan (140)
24. Joseph Agbeko (118)
25. Andre Berto (147)
26. Miguel Vazquez (135)
27. Mikkel Kessler (168)
28. Toshiaki Nishioka (122)
29. Ricky Burns (135)
30. Jorge Arce (122)
31. Lamont Peterson (140)
32. Brandon Rios (147)
33. Marcos Maidana (140)
34. Jean Pascal (175)
35. Hernan Marquez (112)
36. Guillermo Rigondeaux (122)
37. Brian Viloria (112)
38. Roman Gonzalez (108)
39. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (160)
40. Tavoris Cloud (175)
41. Erislandy Lara (154)
42. Marco Huck (200)
43. Antonio DeMarco (135)
44. Felix Sturm (160)
45. Erislandy Lara (154)
46. Robert Guerrero (147)
47. Jhonny Gonzalez (126)
48. Omar Narvaez (115)
49. Mikey Garcia (126)
50. Victor Ortiz (147)
51. Tepparith Singwancha (115)
52. Josesito Lopez (147)
53. Lucas Matthysse (140)
54. Ulises Solis (108)

Dropping off the list in recent months: Shane Mosley (154), Bernard Hopkins (175), Humberto Soto (140), Sergei Dzindziruk (154), Paul Williams (154), Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (112), Hugo Cazares (115), Juan Manuel Lopez (126), Yonnhy Perez (118), Tomasz Adamek (Heavy), Giovani Segura (112), Fernando Montiel (118), Vic Darchinyan (118), Glen Johnson (168), Kelly Pavlik (168), Arthur Abraham (168), Steve Cunningham (200), David Haye (Heavy), Andre Dirrell (168), Antonio Margarito (154), Marco Antonio Barrera (135).

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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