Fights where two pound for pounders have met and one drops only 1 or 2 rounds?

Hopkins/Pavlik
Mayweather/Marquez
Hopkins/Tarver
Jones/Toney

 

Whitaker/Chavez ... lol
Whitaker/Nelson

 

These are just from scrolling through the Ring P4P rankings on Boxrec and picking out fighters that fought each-other with the above result - nothing particularly romantic, sorry

 

Also, perhaps one should consider taking fighters off the list for inactivity more readily. I'm not trying to take anything away from PBF (and I think he beats Mosley at any stage of their respective careers at 147) but Mosley was clearly not in spectacular condition last night, and wouldn't make my Top 10 P4P now. I don't think that's an over-reaction. With that long lay-off, there was a clear effect.

 

Oh yeah, and I presume you mean they were winning a decision - it wouldn't be as relevant if it were a first round KO, for instance.

 

Modern Day

Jones - Toney

Mayweather - Mosley, Hatton (I'd prob give Ricky 3 rounds), Marquez, Corrales.

Pacman - MAB (Pac wasnt P4P before), Hatton (not sure he was P4P then), Cotto (Cotto prob shouldnt have been but might have been), Morales 3 (Morales shouldnt be P4P at this time but may have been)

Hopkins - Tito (Hops prob wasnt P4P), Pavlik, Tarver, Delahoya (DLH prob won more than 2 rounds)

Calzaghe - Lacy -a big push but people forget Lacy was on some P4P lists, Joe probably wasnt

MAB - Hamed (Hamed won more than 2 rounds though)

Whitaker - Chavez (Chavez won more than 2), Nelson

Tyson - Spinks

Trying to figure out P4P lists going back in history is hard

 

Retrospectively P4P lists are never a case whos the best at that moment in time.

 

One round of it is? Mosley was fading that early.

Although he faded early against Cotto too. But not as much.

 

Indeed - a more interesting thread topic might be: When has a P4Per lost decisively but not taken a heavy drop in the rankings?

 

He was successful in Round 2. In Round 3, he looked worse. I'll watch the fight again at some point today, but it seemed that he was gradually losing sharpness throughout the first 4, 5 rounds. In the first he was slipping a HUGE amount of Mayweather's shots, it was really surprising how slick he was. I don't think anyone landed anything clean that round. After a few rounds ticked by, he was a sitting duck for every lead Mayweather threw. It may sound like I'm clutching at straws, but that's the impression I got.

Gasping for air in the corner also wasn't a good sign.

No doubt, it was a great performance. I'll say it again: I'm not trying to discredit Mayweather. Actually, I think he showed clear evidence of being past-prime, although maybe not to the same extent as Mosley. It's never been as clear to me as it is now that Mayweather's best weight is not 147. He looked slower to me than he's ever been, and very flat-footed, even more so than usual at this weight. On the other hand, this was the strongest I've ever seen him; he was the one getting the better of the mauling and brawling, and I thought that was the best chance Mosley had of getting anything over.

But yeah, great showing from Mayweather, his second-best win and perhaps his best performance. He's a level above SSM as a fighter now and always.

 

By the way McGrain, Mayweather looks a bit like Hopkins in that picture!