By: Erick Garcia | Jan 4, 2019
The time has come for Erick’s pound-for-pound boxing rankings. Now, I know you’re all asking why, and I agree. You see I’m really not a fan of pound for pound lists, but like most of us, I definitely enjoy talking shit about everyone else’s lists. If I want to keep things fair and critique other people’s lists, I figured I need to drop my own list so others can shit on it too. Moving forward I will be dropping my Top 10 rankings for each weight class as well and will be giving more of an opinion about how I feel about those fighters individually. Back to my pound for pound list, I am only including fighters from the featherweight to the heavyweight division. That is because I wanted to avoid talking about the weight classes that I don’t really watch, but who knows someday I might open it up a bit more.
Now when it comes to what my criteria for making it on the list are, I tried to keep it simple. I tried to look at the fighters that I felt most confident in when it comes out to cleaning out their current division. Of course, I also included other things such as if they have moved up to other divisions, and or if I would be confident in them moving up to the next weight class and challenging for a belt. So now that you know why I have a pound for pound list and know what my criteria is please check it out. Most importantly please make sure to comment, and let me know how wrong I am.
1. Canelo Álvarez
Record: 51-1-2, 35 KOs (65% KO)
Country: 🇲🇽
Age: 28
Ring P4P Rating: 3
Current Belts: WBC, WBA, Ring Middleweight Champion
Next Fight: TBD
Recent Results
| Opponent (Record) | Date | Result |
| Rocky Fielding (27-1-0) | Dec 15, 2018 | W, TKO |
| Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1) | Sep 15, 2018 | W, MD |
| Gennady Golovkin (38-0-0) | Sep 16, 2017 | D, SD |
2. Oleksandr Usyk
Record: 16-0, 12 KO (75% KO)
Country: 🇺🇦
Age: 31
Ring P4P Rating: 4
Current Belts: WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, Ring Cruiserweight Champion
Next Fight: Not Yet Announced
Recent Results
| Opponent (Record) | Date | Result |
| Tony Bellew (30-2-1) | Nov 10, 2018 | W, TKO |
| Murat Gassiev (26-0-0) | July 21, 2018 | W, UD |
| Mairis Briedis (23-0-0) | Jan 27, 2018 | W, MD |
3. Errol Spence Jr.
Record: 24-0-0, 21 KOs (88% KO)
Country: 🇺🇸
Age: 28
Ring P4P Rating: 9
Current Belt: IBF Welterweight Champion
Next fight: Mikey Garcia (39-0-0), Mar 16, 2019, AT&T Stadium
Recent Results
| Opponent (Record) | Date | Result |
| Carlos Ocampo (22-0-0) | Jun 16, 2018 | W, KO |
| Lamont Peterson (35-3-1) | Jan 20, 2018 | W, RTD |
| Kell Brook (36-1-0) | May 27, 2017 | W, KO |
4. Terence Crawford
Record: 34-0-0, 25 KO (74% KO)
Country: 🇺🇸
Age: 31
Ring P4P Rating: 2
Current Belt: WBO Welterweight Champion
Next fight: Luis Collazo, Mar 23, 2019, MSG (Defending WBO welterweight title)
Recent Results
| Opponent (Record) | Date | Result |
| Jose Benavidez Jr (27-0-0) | Oct 13, 2018 | W, TKO |
| Jeff Horn (18-0-1) | Jun 9, 2018 | W, TKO |
| Julius Indongo (22-0-0) | Aug 19, 2017 | W, KO |
5. Mikey Garcia
Record: 39-0-0, 30 KO (77% KO)
Country: 🇺🇸
Age: 31
Ring P4P Rating: 7
Current Belt: WBC Lightweight Champion
Next fight: Errol Spence Jr, Mar 16, 2019, AT&T Stadium (For IBF welterweight title)
Recent Results
| Opponent (Record) | Date | Result |
| Robert Easter Jr (21-0-0) | Jul 28, 2018 | W, UD |
| Sergey Lipinets (13-0-0) | Mar 10, 2018 | W, UD |
| Adrien Broner (33-2-0) | Jul 29, 2018 | W, UD |
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