BoxRec

Has Alvarez at #1 and GGG #2 (Also has listed Alvarez as the Middleweight champ). This is pretty silly. Thoughts?

It's obviously flawed, and I wish I could take exception to it on a larger scale, but the fact is, boxing lost a huge crop of its top pound-for-pound fighters in a short period of time. Mayweather retired, JMM retired, Pacquiao became mortal, Wladimir got schooled, Hopkins is finished, Gamboa got knocked out, Andre Ward dropped out due to inactivity, Froch retired, Vitali retired, Sergio Martinez became hobbled and then retired, Edwin Valero hung himself, Nonito Donaire got knocked out, Abner Mares got knocked out, Cotto got beat, etc.. So right now, the true p4p top 10 is a more pathetic list than we're used to, and wouldn't appear like it's a real top 10 p4p list. Also, there is an understood bias in the rankings for heavier fighters.

I think an accurate top 10 p4p list would contain Ward, Kovalev, Gonzalez, Pacquiao, Alvarez, Crawford, Walters, Golovkin, Bradley, and Rigondeaux.