Monday, November 21, 2011

The Ring Magazine Ranks Manny Pacquiao as World�s Pound-for-Pound King

The Ring Magazine Ranks Manny Pacquiao as World�s Pound-for-Pound King


Despite being replaced by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. as the number 1 Pound-for-Pound King in the recent rankings made by ESPN and Sports Illustrated, Manny Pacquiao remains to be the best boxer in the world in the world rankings made by The Ring Magazine.

In the latest world rankings released by ESPN and Sports Illustrated on November 14 and November 17 via their websites, Pacquiao has dropped to 2nd place while Floyd Mayweather, Jr. moved up to top place as their new Pound-for-Pound King.


Here�s the Top 10 rankings according to The Ring Magazine:

1. Manny Pacquiao 54-3-2 (38 KO) Welterweight
WBO Welterweight Champion, WBO Super Champion,
WBC Emeritus Champion, WBC Diamond Champion

2. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 42-0 (26 KO) Welterweight
WBC Welterweight Champion, WBC Emeritus Champion

3. Sergio Gabriel Mart�nez 48-2-2 (27 KO) Middleweight
The Ring Middleweight Champion, WBC Diamond Champion

4. Nonito Donaire 27-1 (18 KO) Bantamweight
WBO Bantamweight Champion

5. Juan Manuel M�rquez 53-6-1 (39 KO) Lightweight
Unified WBA and Super WBO Lightweight Champion, The Ring Lightweight Champion

6. Wladimir Klitschko 56-3 (49 KO) Heavyweight
Unified WBA, Super WBO and IBF Heavyweight Champion, The Ring Heavyweight Champion

7. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam 83-3-1 (45 KO) Flyweight
WBC Flyweight Champion, The Ring Flyweight Champion

8. Timothy Bradley 28-0-0-1 (12 KO) Junior welterweight
WBC (in recess) and WBO Junior welterweight Champion

9. Giovani Segura 28-1-1 (24 KO)

10. Andre Ward 24-0 (13 KO)
Super middleweight, Super WBA Super middleweight Champion

The �Pound for pound� rankings were developed by boxing writers during the era of Sugar Ray Robinson to rank the world�s greatest fighters irrespective of their weight division.

The nature of these rankings is subjective and raises an interesting question: How do you compensate for differences in size, power and historical time periods when evaluating boxers?

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