New ESPN P4P is out ---> GGG #1 after Canelo 1 fight

ESPN updated their pound-for-pound list last night:
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/20775716/pound-pound-rankings-andre-ward-retires-new-no-1

Their top 3 is the same as my own top trio in a post I wrote yesterday in another thread on this subject:
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/whos-the-new-p4p-1.594255/page-2#post-18782023

There are currently 9 ESPN voters. The most total points a fighter can get in the poll is 90 (10 points for each first-place vote).

#1 ----> GGG ------------> 83 points ----> 6 first-place votes
#2 ----> Lomachenko ---> 78 points ----> 3 first-place votes
#3 ----> Crawford -------> 74 points ----> 0 first-place votes
#4 -----> Canelo ---------> 60 points ----> 0 first-place votes
#5 -----> Thurman -------> 36 points
#6 -----> Spence
#7 -----> Rigo
#8 -----> Garcia
#9 -----> Kovalev
#0 -----> Inoue

GGG went from not being in Teddy Atlas' Top 10 P4P to #5 on his list. Canelo fell from #6 on Atlas' list to #7. Atlas scored their bout 118-110 for GGG.

Around 80% or so of Media/Fighters/Trainers/Boxing Officials scored the GGG-Canelo 1 bout for GGG. You can see a long list of those people here:
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/ggg-canelo-media-scorecards-compubox.593770/

 

My guess is that Lomachenko is regarded so highly because of his style/skills and kind-of "prodigy" aura.

These three writers have Lomachenko as their #1:

Teddy Atlas
Eric Raskin
Carlos Nava

 

It's only a matter of time before Usyk gets his due. If he keeps winning, the accolades will soon follow. He's too good.

 

It was ridiculous that Teddy did not have GGG in his Top 10 before the Canelo bout. Truly appalling.

But, credit to Teddy, he had GGG winning big over Canelo in that fight. So whatever he thought about GGG before the fight, he didn't let it affect what he saw in the bout.

 

Teddy wrote a piece on it before:
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/18593385/why-left-gennady-golovkin-my-pound-pound-list

I can't really get behind anything he says. There's no justifiable reason, to me, to have not had GGG on that list prior to the Canelo 1 fight. Even if you thought GGG was slipping (as Atlas says he felt may have been the case).

You can't have an unbeaten fighter with 18 consecutive title defenses in the division off the list. That's not going to work. It won't pass the laughter test.

To be fair to ESPN, as a whole, they had GGG at #1 before Ward-Kovalev 2, I think. So they had it right, even if Atlas was off on his own island prior to GGG-Canelo 1.

 

Yeah, just checked. ESPN did have GGG #1 before Ward-Kovalev 2. This list from March 23, 2017:
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/18968693/gennady-golovkin-new-no-1