Pound for pound is a WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY award. Otherwise Ali could come out of retirement and be number 1. PAC HAS DONE ALOT MORE LATELY THAN MAYWEATHER. All Mayweather did was beat a 38 year old Mosely who hadn't fought in 15 months. And who was also beaten by COTTO who Pacquaio absolutely DESTROYED.
Pac has had many impressive performances since that fight. His performances against ODLH and Hatton were better than Floyd's. Plus he recently dominated Cotto and Clottey, who are both arguably better than a past his prime Mosley.
In my mind i have to put Floyd in number one because i see him beating pac and is also the most skilled boxer of my era. I dont care if you hate him, its hard to disagree that he has the best all round tools in the game in most departments. All the haters should give him credit. He is a one in a million fighter with god given skills. He is in the same freak category as a prime RJJ
ok pac beat the biggest welter weight but floyd beat the best welter weight. Floyd went after the top 3 on the p4p list who was pac fighting?
no. manny has done nothing wrong, his destruction of cotto is on a par with floyds of mosley and he got the stoppage. mayweathers win over marquez is fairly worthless, everyone could see that JMM was a poor incarnation of the fighter who plies his trade further down the weight classes. a win over a 147 clottey is worth more. any doubts must be put to bed by a meeting between the two this year.
I like the poll, even with all the Floyd hate we clearly know who the best fighter is. He is p4p #1 b/c he is just ****ing better than Pac. Everybody knows it. Pac knows it. Roach knows it.