ESPN Selects Ward As P4P #1 In The Sport

As expected.

My guess is that they will put GGG back on top at #1 PFP if he beats Canelo convincingly.

Golovkin was #1 on the list for ESPN before Ward-Kovalev 2.

 

Well yeah, going by results he is very clearly better than everyone else. I just think those results are bull****, but you pretty much have to go by them.

 

Just look at Lomachenko and compare................Lomachenko is, by far, the most skilled fighter in boxing history...................SOB needs to cheat to win a fight if he is facing anyone who can punch back, in fact, SOB lost the first fight and would have lost the rematch if not for the low blows, esp. the last one and his personal referee Weeks, not to mention the criminal boxing commission and judges..........

 

Ward

His fake ass PFP

 

did anyone happen to catch Ward during the immediately post-fight interview, actively lobbying for P4P #1?

i can't remember a fighter doing this.

made me cringe listening to him, like he's saying "please vote for me so i can become 'most popular boxer'"

 

As he should be..Bigger, and better fighter all around in my opinion.. But fight will be much closer than a lot of people think.. the red head has shown he does have some stones and has gotten better with time. I think the fight with Floyd made him grow up a lot in the ring.. He will take some leather and land some as well.. This is the fight to watch!! I expect GGG to win in he can KO him.. If it goes to the cards and its close I see the mexican winning unless its a very clear win for GGG.. Well see..

 

You guess wrong.

Wards win over Koalev will be more deserving because he moved as the smaller guy.. Golovkin will have beaten a smaller guy moving up.

If GGG wants the top spot he can move up and fight Ward for it.

 

This.

 

And rightfully so. He moved up and took on the man no one thought he'd fight, TWICE, and knocked him out. Golovkin beating Canelo shouldn't make him #1 but it's a damn good win.

 

Except Canelo is bigger than GGG. lol

 

Negative Plague Rat. All GGG has to do is LEGITIMATELY beat Canelo without needing a GIFT decision or nut shots to force a stoppage and he'll be top PFP.

 

The most skilled fighter in boxing history got beat up and bullied by Orlando f*cking Salido?

 

My stance on this fight is softening somewhat.

The ending was bs, no mistake about it, Kovalev should have been given 5 minutes.

But the performance to that point was masterful by Ward. How many today can perform at that level against an opponent of that calibre?

Golovkin has a chance to prove it against Canelo and vice versa.

Gonzalez probably can't do it at that level any more given his jump in weight.

We assume Rigo, Garcia and Loma can perform at that level but none have recently.

I personally think Crawford can perform like that as well.

So personally for me right now and this changes all the time as I digest the fight more and more, it's a choice between Ward and Golovkin and right now Ward has proven that level whereas Golovkin is yet to, but he is odds on to do it.

If and when Golovkin wins he should be everyone's number 1 p4p and maybe ATG MW. Yeah I said it. If he doesn't lose at MW I'll probably class him TBE at 160.

 

Ward number 1 by a major media organisation should be a nice accolade, but did you guys see the lists of the 11 writers that made up the poll? Most of them are total jokes. Joe Cortez has Golovkin and Canelo above Ward, and Wilder above Lomachenko. Teddy Atlas is the only guy with a good top 3, but he has Keith Thurman number 4, who should at best just make a top 10. Narvaez is out to lunch to rate Canelo above Ward and Kovalev above Loma and Crawford. Pillatti has Crawford and Loma in better spots, but Ward only number 6, below Thurman. Dan's isn't the worst of the lot, but Pac and Canelo above Crawford doesn't make it a pass.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me that Rigo is number 2, that Mikey Garcia and Inoue should be very high, that GGG and Canelo can't be top 5, even that Pacquiao can't be top 10, but there are certain placements on a p4p list that are just wrong, and most of these have them.

The poll results are actually not too unreasonable compared to the individual lists, because the extreme picks are lessened. But if nothing else we should have to say that ESPN badly overrates Golovkin and badly underrates Crawford.