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I am gonne list 2, since there are so many record lovers, who mostly only rank by resume and than i am going to list the real deal, they way a p4p list is meant to be ranked, by who beats who, who is better than the other p4p.

todays best active boxers based on record

1. manny pacquiao
2. bernard hopkins
3. roy jones jr
4. floyd mayweather jr
5. juan manuel marquez
7. miguel cotto
8. canelo alvarez
9. carl froch
10. roman gonzales

todays best avtive boxers based on skill & athletic

1. guillermo rigondeaux
2. gennady golovkin
3. manny pacquiao
4. floyd mayweather jr
5. erislandy lara
6. adonis stevenson
7. serguy kovalev
8. roman gonzales
9. canelo alvarez
10. nicholas walthers

Rigondeaux is no way number one P4P in any way shape or form. Best current, active fighter P4P is Gennady Golovkin. Also no way is Stephenson above Kovalev.

1 Golovkin
2 Mayweather
3 Klitschko
4 Ward
5 Pacquiao
6 Kovalev
7 Gonzalez
8 Rigondeaux
9 Froch
10 Crawford

Chepppaaa wrote:I am gonne list 2, since there are so many record lovers, who mostly only rank by resume and than i am going to list the real deal, they way a p4p list is meant to be ranked, by who beats who, who is better than the other p4p.

todays best active boxers based on record

1. manny pacquiao
2. bernard hopkins
3. roy jones jr
4. floyd mayweather jr
5. juan manuel marquez
7. miguel cotto
8. canelo alvarez
9. carl froch
10. roman gonzales

todays best avtive boxers based on skill & athletic

1. guillermo rigondeaux
2. gennady golovkin
3. manny pacquiao
4. floyd mayweather jr
5. erislandy lara
6. adonis stevenson
7. serguy kovalev
8. roman gonzales
9. canelo alvarez
10. nicholas walthers

that has to be a joke dude stevenson above kovlev no klitschko too

okay, 2 guys that have no clue. lets see how the next guys do.

If we forget about old fights and base only on recent results and impressions:

1. Roman Gonzalez
2. Golovkin
3. Crawford
4. Kovalev
5. Klitchko
6. Mayweather
7. Pacquiao
8. Rigondeaux
9. Inoue
10. Lomachenko

ikorolev wrote:If we forget about old fights and base only on recent results and impressions:

1. Roman Gonzalez
2. Golovkin
3. Crawford
4. Kovalev
5. Klitchko
6. Mayweather
7. Pacquiao
8. Rigondeaux
9. Inoue
10. Lomachenko

finaly somebody makes sense

I think a good P4P list is a blend of the two lists you've proposed, though putting a greater weight on more recent performances. I still think 'who beats who' is irrelevant in ranking boxers, unless you're talking about fighters who have actually fought or at least fighters in the same division. 'If they were the same size' is a silly notion because fighting styles change with size.

Active boxers based on records:

1. Pacquiao
2. Mayweather
3. Hopkins
4. RJJ
5. Marquez
6. Cotto
7. Martinez
8. Bradley
9. Froch
10. Wlad
* Mosley would be #5 if he was still active.


My actual P4P rankings:
1. Mayweather
2. Pacquiao
3. Gonzalez
4. Marquez
5. Rigondeaux
6. Froch
7. Wlad
8. Alvarez
9. Kovalev
10. Bradley
* Ward would be #4 if he were still active


I tried doing one based purely on ability, skills etc but found it a very frustrating exercise and gave up! For instance, GGG would rate highly, but I couldn't decide how highly because we've yet to see him in the ring with a genuine p4p fighter so it's hard to gauge how good he really is.