If he beat Froch, Groves, DeGale, or Dirrell in impressive fashion and showed he hadn't lost a step, he should be back in the mix the same as Floyd was beating a much smaller Marquez after his layoff in 2009. Ring put Floyd back at #2 for that. As far as Rodriguez goes, he's probably no worse than Victor Ortiz, Guerrero, or Berto. He was ranked #8 or #10 or something at super middle when Ward fought him. Now he's ranked #13 (boxrec) at cruiserweight. It's also the impressive way that Ward handled his opponent that doesn't make the victory meaningless.
Some peeps tend to forget Mayweather lost his first fight to Castillo and almost lost to C level Maidana in there first fight and yall say he's p4p lol Meanwhile sergey has fought and dominated Hopkins one of the best defensive fighters alive and B+ level Pascal in less than a year
Hopkins moves from one corpse division to another bypassing all the hardest challengers. He hid from Jones, Toney, and Calzaghe at middleweight, then moved to light-heavyweight as soon as that division emptied out and super middle heated up. Father time finally caught up with that old man and he ran into a real opponent named Sergey Kovalev. The miracle is that he didn't break a hip running from Kovalev all night. Beating Hopkins fifteen years ago was an accomplishment. Now, it should just be a given.
Mayweather just completely shutout Canelo and Pac just very convincingly beat a p4p #3 in Bradley very recent. Again, either of those wins are much better than what Golovkin has ever done. In fact, Golovkin wont even go up 1 division to fight current p4p #3 Andre Ward, Pac just beat p4p #3 on his 10th weight division as World Champion.
Bernard is still very very good defensively even Kovalev said that and he don't strike me as a guy that lies
I'll give Mayweather credit for his win against Canelo. That was one of if not actually his best win ever. But maybe we were just overestimating Canelo. Or maybe Mayweather only really started showing his age against Maidana. I really can't see 2007 Mayweather having any difficulty against a fighter of Maidana's caliber. Only a fool would place Bradley at #3. I have him in my top 20, but he doesn't belong in the top 10. He's good, not great, and he was better at 140. The only people who put him that high are the one's who don't watch his fights and see he was gifted a series of robberies by incompetent women judges.
It doesn't matter if his technique is perfect. He doesn't have the physical tools to execute anymore. That's why Chad Dawson made a meal out of him.
Here's another thing Floyd and Manny GGG and Rigo Two pairs of fighters with diametrically opposing situations EVERYONE wants to fight the first two They've continually taken the easiest challengers, and made at times completely debilitating demands on their opponents NO ONE wants to fight the second two Constantly ducked They've made no such debilitating demands, and therefore as such always fight the best version of whoever they fight This is a massive factor that seems at times to get completely overlooked when discussing P4P
Klitschko fights a string of undefeated, top 3 rated fighters, such as olympic gold champ and wba champ Povetkin, undefeated highly rated Pulev, and now fighting undefeated top rated Jennings - DSG says "Klit hasn't fought anyone decent in a while"