P4P: Which has more Weight to you, Accomplishment or Who would beat Who?

There was Oscar - Pacman, that was down to the alleged massive size difference.

Pavlik - Hopkins - The lower ranked fighter actually moved up two weight divisions and found himself a big favorite.
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I also have to go with recent accomplishments. The Donaire/Darchinyan example was a great one. Up until recently, people were seriously considering Margarito near the top of the P4P rankings - but would you consider the nobodies to whom he had unavenged losses earlier in his career to be better P4P fighters? The same goes for Caballero, who has been a beast at super bantamweight but lost to Cordoba back in the day. He has accomplished much more than Cordoba since then, but Cordoba is nowhere near Caballero in P4P consideration. There are more examples, but those are off the top of my head.

 

Agreed.

Let's say, for example, on this dude's list from a site about boxing, he rates Taylor P4P over Kessler at 168. I'd take Kessler in that match in a heartbeat. He also rates Mosley over Cotto at 147, and I'd take Cotto again in that match-up. Same goes for Pavlik being rated over Abraham at 160, and I'd take Abraham there, too.

 

fame.

 

Accomplishment.