Does anyone know the timeline of pound for pound #1 over the years? I know Ray Robinson was the first and guys like Mayweather and Pac are the present but what about the rest of them. i can never find anything on line about this
What's with all these PFP **** today.. Is it a flavor of the day??? As if it's cool to make threads about P4P..
Ray Robinson was most definitely NOT the first. I'm pretty sure the Ring only officially started printing P4P lists in the 70's. I might be wrong, but Ray Robinson is of course considered the P4P no.1 of all time now, but back then I'm not sure whether there was a genuine 'Ring P4P Top Ten'. I might be wrong, this is probably selective memory :good
1980 KO Magazine (January) 1 - Roberto Duran 2 - Sugar Ray Leonard 3 - Wilfredo Gomez 4 - Danny Lopez 5 - Pipino Cuevas 6 - Alexis Arguello 7 - Larry Holmes 8 - Wilfred Benitez 9 - Vito Antuofermo/Matt Saad Muhammad (tie) 1981 KO Magazine (January) 1 - Thomas Hearns 2 - Sugar Ray Leonard 3 - Marvin Hagler 4 - Larry Holmes 5 - Alexis Arguello 6 - Wilfredo Gomez 7 - Eddie Mustafa Muhammad 8 - Matt Saad Muhammmad 9 - Wilfred Benitez 10 - Roberto Duran/Aaron Pryor (tie) 1982 KO Magazine 1. Sugar Ray Leonard 2. Alexis Arguello 3. Marvin Hagler 4. Salvador Sanchez 5. Wilfred Benitez 6. Larry Holmes 7. Jeff Chandler 8. Eusebio Pedroza 9. Aaron Pryor 10. Thomas Hearns/Dwight Braxton* (tie) *Dwight Muhammad Qawi 1983 KO Magazine 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Aaron Pryor 3. Larry Holmes 4. Michael Spinks 5. Jeff Chandler 6. Thomas Hearns 7. Alexis Arguello 8. Wilfredo Gomez 9. Hector Camacho 10. Eusebio Pedroza 1984 KO Magazine 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Aaron Pryor 3. Larry Holmes 4. Eusebio Pedroza 5. Hector Camacho 6. Ray Leonard 6. Jeff Chandler 8. Michael Spinks 9. Thomas Hearns 10. Donald Curry 1985 KO Magazine 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Hector Camacho 3. Michael Spinks 4. Donald Curry 5. Thomas Hearns 6. Barry McGuigan 7. Milton McCrory 8. Julio Cesar Chavez 8. Pinklon Thomas 10. Larry Holmes 1986 KO Magazine 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Mike Tyson 3. Donald Curry 4. Thomas Hearns 5. Edwin Rosario 6. Azumah Nelson 6. Michael Spinks 8. Evander Holyfield 9. Julio Cesar Chavez 10. Hector Camacho
1988 KO Magazine 1. Mike Tyson 2. Julio Cesar Chavez 3. Evander Holyfield 4. Ray Leonard 5. Jeff Fenech 6. Michael Nunn 7. Azumah Nelson 8. Jung Koo Chang 9. Buddy McGirt 10. Sumbu Kalambay 1989 1. Mike Tyson 2. Julio Cesar Chavez 3. Pernell Whitaker 4. Michael Nunn 5. Antonio Esparragoza 6. Meldrick Taylor 7. Azumah Nelson 8. Raul Perez 9. Virgil Hill 10. Marlon Starling 1990 1. Julio Cesar Chavez 2. Pernell Whitaker 3. Michael Nunn 4. Antonio Esparragoza 5. Meldrick Taylor 6. Evander Holyfield 7. Mike Tyson 8. Raul Perez 9. Myung-Woo Yuh 10. Khaosai Galaxy 1992 1. Julio Cesar Chavez 2. Pernell Whitaker 3. Terry Norris 4. Orlando Canizales 5. James (Buddy) McGirt 6. Riddick Bowe 7. Azumah Nelson 8. Sung-Kil Moon 9. Julian Jackson 10. James Toney 1993 1. Pernell Whitaker 2. Julio Cesar Chavez 3. James Toney 4. Michael Carbajal 5. Orlando Canizales 6. Evander Holyfield 7. Ricardo Lopez 8. Roy Jones Jr. 9. Kennedy McKinney 10. Yuri Arbachakov 1994 1. Pernell Whitaker 2. Roy Jones Jr. 3. Orlando Canizales 4. Ricardo Lopez 5. Humberto Gonzalez 6. Frankie Randall 7. Felix Trinidad 8. Gerald McClellan 9. Miguel Angel Gonzalez 10. Kevin Kelley 1995 1. Pernell Whitaker 2. Roy Jones Jr. 3. Ricardo Lopez 4. Oscar De La Hoya 5. Felix Trinidad 6. Yuri Arbachakov 7. Kostya Tszyu 8. Riddick Bowe 9. Marco Antonio Barrera 10. Terry Norris 1996 1. Roy Jones Jr. 2. Oscar De La Hoya 3. Pernell Whitaker 4. Felix Trinidad 5. Ricardo Lopez 6. Junior Jones 7. Kostya Tszyu 8. Terry Norris 9. Evander Holyfield 10. Mark Johnson
i'll stop there...the rest can be found in the ring almanac i hope people would give hagler some respect for being the p4p king for almost 5 years
Which is exactly what I said earlier :good I said they didn't start til late. That is the P4P list we are talking about Asero. The guy wants a timeline of what has led to Pac being no.1 P4P based on the Ring Rankings, Pac, To Floyd, To Roy, To Hopkins (I assume that is how it goes)
the ring ratings is not boxrec encyclopedia and wiki. why make a thread when the answer is all over the net. you can even find the top 100 since 1996 what i posted concerning the p4p list by KO magazine and i think it would still put some essence to the thread..