The sport of boxing is really taking off at the moment in popularity and blue chip corporation commercial interest, but it is based on one thing.
Fights.
It always has been.
It is always about the fights.
The best fighters in the world fighting one another.
We live in a time now where the pound for pound list in boxing is maybe the strongest it has been in decades.
It is a very hard list to get into.
UK Boxing Analyst Reveals Current Top Top Pound For Pound List
Gareth A Davies of Talk Sport earlier on gave his current top 10 (as of August 31 2025) today:
“1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Naoya Inoue
3. Terence Crawford
4. Dmitry Bivol
5. Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez
6. Artur Beterbiev
7. Junto Nakatani
8. Canelo Alvarez
9. Teofimo Lopez
10. Shakur Stevenson”
A strong list from Mr. Davies in the UK.
Always a knowledgeable individual on the sport and where it often nowadays, frequently does, crosses over into MMA and UFC.
Usyk is the King of boxing for now but Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez soon will have something to say about that.
