Annual pound for pound challenge
Posted: 03 Jul 2016, 18:15
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Ring magazine have annual ratings, by weight class, going back to 1924, we have Boxrec rankings and fight records for fighters going back to the likes of John L Sullivan, Nonpariel Dack Dempsey and Jack McAuliffe in the 1880s.
The p4p rankings only started, in Ring magazine, in 1989. I have no idea if any other media outlet had a p4p system before then but I thought it might make for interesting discussion, to try our hand at ranking a top 10 p4p, for each year, going back from 88.
We argue all day every day on here about who was the best, but I thought it might add an interesting twist, to consider it by year.
As great fighter fade and new champions emerge.
Taking into consideration specific results and performances and attempting to decide who people at the time would have ranked as the best of that specific year.
I've no doubt we will argue over it as much as we might have at the time.
Mods - Can I have an agreement, the first person who mentions Wilt Chamberlain, gets a 2 month ban!
Ring magazine have annual ratings, by weight class, going back to 1924, we have Boxrec rankings and fight records for fighters going back to the likes of John L Sullivan, Nonpariel Dack Dempsey and Jack McAuliffe in the 1880s.
The p4p rankings only started, in Ring magazine, in 1989. I have no idea if any other media outlet had a p4p system before then but I thought it might make for interesting discussion, to try our hand at ranking a top 10 p4p, for each year, going back from 88.
We argue all day every day on here about who was the best, but I thought it might add an interesting twist, to consider it by year.
As great fighter fade and new champions emerge.
Taking into consideration specific results and performances and attempting to decide who people at the time would have ranked as the best of that specific year.
I've no doubt we will argue over it as much as we might have at the time.
Mods - Can I have an agreement, the first person who mentions Wilt Chamberlain, gets a 2 month ban!