The 12 Fighters In Boxing History Who Made The Ring's #1 PFP Spot

The Ring annointing Gonzalez and Golovkin p4p number 1 sure has shown they're no longer the Bible of Boxing.

 

Hmm I'm a bit concern, there seems to be a dip in quality in the last 3. The first 9 with the exception of Mosley are ATG but the last 3 are arguably HOF. Has boxing regress?

 

Props to DLH, he fought over 50% of those at or near their peak. Best resume in decades.

 

Some of your data is incorrect, Manny wasn't #1 P4P in 05, 06 or 07. All of those were Floyd. Manny was P4P #1 from 2008 to 2012... Then Floyd took over. Also Andre Ward should have a big asterisk next to him. He didn't even beat Kovalev the first fight. And the second fight he was cheating.

 

Ragging on Roman just goes to show Andre was smart to get out now. Get out on your terms otherwise short memoried fans will punish you for it.

No minimumweight fighter has ever won titles in as many classes as Roman did. He ducked nobody. Had an incredible offense that was fun to watch.

I guess winning titles in 4 classes and winning 15 straight title fights doesn't carry the weight it used to. Or maybe getting knocked out vs a terrible styles matchup in your 4th class undoes all that.

 

Looks good to me.

 

Yeah, also another thing I saw that was interesting was BHOP was put at #1 in 2002. I didn't realize he ever rose to #1 that early. Always thought it was in 2004.

Jones first #1 P4P was in 96, he also held #1 spot in 99, and 03. Sort of interesting, as I didn't really start following boxing until 2004. There were really only 3 names until recently that occupied #1 spot: Bhop/Floyd/Pac.

It does feel strange that #1 P4P has changed as much in the past year than it did in a full decade. (Gonzales/Ward*/GGG) vs (Pac/Floyd/BHOP)

*Should have actually been Kovalev if it wasn't for biased judging and cheating.

 

No because the real best fighters in the sport (No disrespect to GGG) are Crawford and Lomachenko, both well on their way to ATG status.

 

I tend to agree that both Loma and Crawford are more talented than GGG. It seems that there is no dominance forces at the moment after pac/ mayweather era.
Let see if Crawford or Lomachenko can rule the roost in the coming years.

 

Where Crawford and Loma exceed in talent, GGG compensates in his chin, power, and straight toughness

 

"Crawford the real best fighter in the sport." Are you kidding me? Who has he beat?
Most fighters that Crawford has beaten were no name fighters.
If he goes up to 147 and beats all tough guys over there then I will recognize him as the best fighter P4P.

 

I don't know. It looks about the same to me. All of those guys with the exception of Shane are great fighters, although Golovkin is probably on the lower side of the scale. I can't decide if he's as good as Kostya Tszyu or a little better. Really, he's not going to be there long since he'll probably retire after the rematch next year and they'll elevate Lomachenko.

Bernard probably wasn't #1 at any time even though he's an ATG. If he was ever top dog it was likely convenient timing because even in his heyday Barrera, Morales, and Calzaghe were probably doing better work. But they'd pick up a loss or something and duck below a few of the other p4pers they were better than. That's a problem with the p4p list, it's volatile nature. Just one loss will send a great fighter tumbling down the charts. It seems to reward not losing more than winning great victories.

That's probably why it had Floyd Mayweather top for about five years when he wasn't doing the best work. From 2012 on Donaire, Ward, Rigondeaux, Gonzalez, and Lomachenko were all better for a period. But everyone is reluctant to move a guy down to make way for new blood if he doesn't have an official loss on his record. It's got a very conservative structure and the list makers really like to place their bets on the well known well established safe commodities in the sport. You often have to win for a long time before they'll add you, and when they finally add you, you are past your best, declining, on the brink of failure, and you tumble right off. That's what happened when they finally put Klitschko, Uchiyama, Yamanaka, and Gonzalez on there just in recent memory. I guess that's better than when they jump the gun and declare the likes of Broner, Guerrero, and Lopez to be p4p quality.

It's such a weird list when you look at it. I mean the times when a guy goes in. I think Ward should have gone in, but probably around the time he won the super six or beat Chad Dawson, not after those two controversial "victories" over Kovalev. It's sort of the same thing for Golovkin. I know he's finally got a great win on his resume, but he was better two and three years ago. It would seem cruel to move Golovkin down for a diminished performance when at the same time it was his greatest achievement to date, but the p4p list is a little cruel anyway the way it treats fighters with controversial losses. Think of how Kovalev got lowered after everyone thought that he beat Ward. And Mosley goes up or stays up, even though everyone thinks he lost the second De La Hoya fight.

I'm puzzled by the thread starters list though. I really didn't think that Hopkins ever hit #1 and I thought Calzaghe was Ring's guy around 2008 after he beat B-Hop and Jones before he retired.

 

He's got 3 marquee wins under his belt. KO'ed an undefeated Gamboa, Destroyed Indongo's liver and dominated an undefeated Postol knocking him down twice. All great wins all dominant performances over seriously good prospects, the latter two were a weight class up. He's going up another weight class soon. If he becomes an undefeated 3 division champ with a 72% KO ratio (so far) how can you possibly argue that GGG has a better resume?