Pacquiao leads nine others in the latest list of Top 10 pound for pound fighters with 635 weeks followed by Cuban Olympic gold medalist and The Ring and lineal super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux with 127 weeks on the list.
The Ring’s current pound for pound king Roman Gonzalez, who has been on the list for 86 weeks, is the third longest-staying fighter in the Top 10 p4p list.
The seven others comprising the Top 10 list include: Gennady Golovkin (50 weeks), Sergey Kovalev (46 weeks), Terence Crawford (39 weeks), Shinsuke Yamanaka (37 weeks), Andre Ward (20 weeks), Canelo Alvarez (10 weeks) and Timothy Bradley (5 weeks).
Pacquiao, who is set to face Bradley on April 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, held the top spot of the pound for pound list before facing Floyd Mayweather in their “Fight of the Century” in May last year.
After his stunning loss to Marquez, Pacquiao has managed to stay in the pound for pound list despite his loss to Mayweather last year. He is now ranked No.7 in the latest list.
The pound for pound rating is compiled by Ring Magazine‘s Editorial Board and updated periodically to reflect the result of each boxer’s latest fight result, performance and track record.
The Editorial Board works with the Ring Ratings Panel which is made of boxing journalists from around the world.
