This just shows you how silly these p4p lists are. The No 1 p4p has a close fight and, "Ugh, he's no longer p4p, now some other guy is p4p." And the next week, it's someone else. The whole P4P idea was created for Ray Robinson, when it made sense. It should have been retired with him.
No it wasn't brainwashing, Floyd and Pac rightfully were both number 1 and number 2, but both would be massacred by Jacobs and Golovkin, Kovalev and Ward are rightfully ranked Top 3 (Top 2 IMO), but would most likely lose to Usyk and Gassiev. Weight divisions exist.... eh you know the rest.