Pound for pound boxing rankings are difficult enough at the best of times to make, no doubt about it, they are never agreed on and everyone has different criteria.
These days most fans would have consensus that the best pound for pound boxers of this era would be the likes of Terence Crawford, Mayweather, Pacquiao and so on when it comes to the 21st century.
But all time is even more difficult.
There is no official pound for pound criteria and that is why it is such a special, rare list as boxing fans love the debate of who the best fighters are in these times and of all times irrespective or weight division.
Greatest Pound-for-Pound Lists, The Unequivocal Challenge Of Them
It gets into that main thing that boxing fans and maybe all sports fans want to see in their sport at the highest level — that’s the best competing against the best.
To see really who the number one champion and best is.
That’s the idea what pound for pound represents.
It is bigger even than the heavyweight champion of the world in some ways.
For us things like how many weights a boxer won titles in, his caliber of opposition he beat, how he fought in his wins, how active he was in a given year or two year period, are all crucial variables to this sweet science equation.
Formulating these lists is not easy but that is the best we have been able to come up with over the years. We stand on it.
While the heavyweight division is buzzing again, internationally in all weights, pound for pound has never been so difficult as it is now to come up with.
The standard of professional boxing worldwide now is at an all time high.
Thus making pound for pound more difficult than ever to come up with.
Check out our top 10 pound for pound rankings here and at the top menu of the site.
