Updated December 02, 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. Andre Ward (168)
4. Sergio Martinez (160)
5. Nonito Donaire (122)
6. Juan Manuel Marquez (140)
7. Wladimir Klitschko (Heavy)
8. Timothy Bradley (147)
9. Yuriorkis Gamboa (126)
10. Vitali Klitschko (Heavy)
11. Adrien Broner (135)
12. Abner Mares (122)
13. Orlando Salido (126)
14. Saul Alvarez (154)
15. Chris John (126)
16. Carl Froch (168)
17. Chad Dawson (175)
18. Anselmo Moreno (118)
19. Lucian Bute (168)
20. Brandon Rios (140)
21. Danny Garcia (140)
22. Devon Alexander (147)
23. Robert Guerrero (147)
24. Miguel Cotto (154)
25. Amir Khan (140)
26. Joseph Agbeko (118)
27. Mikkel Kessler (168)
28. Miguel Vazquez (135)
29. Ricky Burns (135)
30. Jorge Arce (122)
31. Lamont Peterson (140)
32. Marcos Maidana (140)
33. Guillermo Rigondeaux (122)
34. Brian Viloria (112)
35. Jean Pascal (175)
36. Roman Gonzalez (108)
37. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (160)
38. Tavoris Cloud (175)
39. Andre Berto (147)
40. Antonio DeMarco (135)
41. Hernan Marquez (112)
42. Erislandy Lara (154)
43. Gennady Golovkin (160)
44. Omar Narvaez (115)
45. Mikey Garcia (126)
46. Marco Huck (200)
47. Lucas Matthysse (140)
48. Victor Ortiz (147)
49. Tepparith Kokietgym (115)
50. Josesito Lopez (147)
51. Ulises Solis (108)
52. Daniel Geale (160)
Dropping off the list in recent months: Toshiaki Nishioka (122), Jhonny Gonzalez (126), Felix Sturm (160), 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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