Who you would pick to be the p4p king if ....

Kovalev easy.

 

Well Pacquiao is there to be beaten IMO, Vargas just isn't that good. I was fully expecting Brook to beat Vargas handily so aren't putting too much stock in yesterday's fight as a performance.

I don't really rate Garcia either, I think he's there to be beaten by lesser fighters than Crawford. Thurman could prove a good scalp if he can prove he's above haircut in their fight.

Inoue is an interesting one as I'll be interested to see how he comes back from his latest hand shattering.

Ward is the biggest potential win off that list but I don't think beating up the overhyped, ageing Stevenson is worth any more than the others you've mentioned.

 

Kovalev

 

Gonzalez

 

Kovalev. Ward would be the best win by far.

 

Out of those 3.

1. Kovalev
2. Gonzalez
3. Crawford

 

Chocolatito. Easily

Stevenson is over rated chicken **** garbage

Brook beats all three of those welters

 

golovkin when he beats jacobs saunder and canelo easily

 

Almost certainly Roman, Kovalev, Crawford. Have to see the fights of course to say for sure. But I regard Inoue so highly that Kovalev even beating a guy as great and hard to beat as Ward wouldn't have to make him number 1.

 

I'd have to see how each one did it, but hypothetically I'd have to go with Gonzalez since he's still scaled more divisions than the other guys and already has a much better record. That's already his fourth division and he's undersized for it. Crawford would be normal sized for his third division if he moved up to welterweight and did what the OP describes. Kovalev is normal sized for his first division, so it's hard to give him pound for pound accolades no matter who he fought, especially since Ward is moving up to fight him.

 

I'm one who doesn't give much credence to divisions in the lower weights. It's stupid to get a title when difference is less than 7 pounds. The pound difference in the lower divisions is so small that they should just be rid of them. The UFC gets that right. Someone moving from LHW to CW to HW is a HUGE undertaking.

 

I don't see why we have anything below 126 tbh, Grown men don't weigh less than 126, that is just gimmick midget boxing, it's easy to see why nobody cares for it

 

It's percent of body mass. 3 pounds to a 105 pound guy is like 8 pounds to a 160 pound guy. Now, I'd be fine with only 8 divisions instead of 17 but that's not why the UFC only has 8 divisions. They don't have enough talent to fill 17 weight classes. Especially since the sport is largely drawing it's talent from the US and Brazil which doesn't have a lot of 5'2"-5'4" guys, they couldn't fill a whole division at the lower end. The talent pool for boxing is 7.5 times as big as it is in mma. There are literally thousands more professional boxers than there are mixed martial artists. We've got almost as many people competing at welterweight as there are competing in all eight mixed martial arts divisions. Basically, the reason why mma has such wide gaps between divisions is because their weight classes would have no depth otherwise.

 

Why have weight divisions at all? Why not just watch heavyweights if you don't care about the lower weight classes?