If you look at the sport of boxing at the moment at its highest level, professional boxing, competition has never been so high.
Both at the very top of the sport at world championship level right the way through to prospect and novice pro boxers’ level.
Take the top ten pound for pound rankings, a list that maybe mythical but in another way very real, in terms of who the best boxers in the world are regardless of the weight classes they compete in.
In that there is no widely agreed upon criteria in how to get into them.
For us, it is level of opposition faced, how regularly the boxers competes against this opposition, how they win and the number of divisions this is done in usually.
Hence on the term ‘pound for pound’ — those who go through the weights and batter the best boxers in the world, bigger then them, all around the world, in countries all around the world, get the most respect by us.
Why The Pound For Pound Rankings Have Never Been So Difficult To Make In Boxing As They Are Now
You are talking nowadays the likes of course of Mr. Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk.
But the competition is fierce and we’ve honestly never found it more challenging to develop and compile a top ten.
So much so, the likes of Devin Haney misses out for us at the moment despite his win over Brian Norman Jr for the WBO welterweight title just gone.
This list is going to change a bit in the time ahead as well.
You have the likes of Junto Nakatani and Naoya Inoue competing next month as well.
These are all great problems to have in the sweet science of course, really, this is an excellent problem to have.
Credit must gp to the fighters first, their trainers and teams and as well, a huge shout out to the matchmaking in boxing by promoters and organizers, and networks, in the last year or so in particular.
This is what we, and fans, and all those in boxing, wish to see.
The best fighting the best on a regular basis.
Simple.
Checkmate.
