Gervonta Davis picked up a belt in a 3rd weight division with a powerful win over Mario Barrios on the finish of final month, however he stays solely a one-weight world champion.
The rising US star placed on an exhilarating efficiency and, regardless of being outsized, knocked out his countryman to assert the lesser WBA ‘common’ belt at super-lightweight (140lbs).
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Gervonta is likely one of the largest punchers in world boxing
He beforehand beat Yuriorkis Gamboa to win the lesser WBA ‘common’ belt at light-weight (135lbs).
Most boxing followers do respect these victories, notably the latest overcome Barrios, however don’t recognise the WBA ‘common’ belt as a legit world title.
It is because the WBA ‘tremendous’ title is at present held by Josh Taylor at super-lightweight (140lbs) and Teofimo Lopez at light-weight (135lbs) – these are two names who’ve cracked the pound-for-pound high ten with wins over Jose Ramirez and Vasyl Lomachenko.
In his breakout victory again in 2017, Gervonta knocked out Jose Pedraza to assert the legit IBF world title at super-featherweight (130lbs).
He’s now starting to strengthen his résumé with wins over Barrios and Leo Santa Cruz, however doesn’t but have a file with the calibre of his pound-for-pound rivals.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are earlier pound-for-pound kings
The pound-for-pound argument might be one of the crucial contentious within the sport and each supporter appears to have a singular opinion on it.
Some rank the perfect fighters on the planet primarily based purely on the way of their performances – how they appear.
Some rank them primarily based purely on their résumés and weigh up who has the perfect recorded wins.
Some take different components akin to exercise and official outcomes under consideration, too, that means the entire thing turns into one large complicated mess.
Subsequently, talkSPORT.com goes to put out its standards (primarily based roughly on Ring Journal’s pound-for-pound standards) for this checklist proper now:
CRITERIA
Consequence – The official outcome all the time stands and in the end trumps the opposite components. The opposite three are all equally vital.
Efficiency – The style by which a fighter wins or loses.
Résumé – The opponents overwhelmed/titles received.
Exercise – How usually a fighter is preventing in opposition to high stage opposition
10. Juan Estrada (41-3, 28 KOs)
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Juan Estrada’s distinguished profession has seen him grow to be a two-division world champion at flyweight and super-flyweight. His crowning rematch wins over Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Roman Gonzalez thrust him into the highest ten.
9. Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs)
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After dethroning Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, Tyson Fury’s life and profession famously spiralled uncontrolled. Nevertheless, he’s since remarkably turned all the pieces round and returned to knock out Deontay Wilder, re-establishing himself as the perfect heavyweight on the planet.
8. Errol Spence (27-0, 21 KOs)
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WBC and IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence has now constructed a powerful file since defeating Kell Brook to assert the belt in 2017. Spence stopped Lamont Peterson earlier than additionally dominating Mikey Garcia, Danny Garcia and unifying in opposition to Shawn Porter.
7. Vasyl Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs)
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After an historic 396-1 novice profession, double Olympic gold medallist Vasyl Lomachenko turned professional and jumped straight into world class match-ups. The Ukrainian has since grow to be a three-weight champion, beating the likes of Gary Russell Jr, Nicholas Walters, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Jorge Linares, however was dethroned by Teofimo Lopez.
6. Teofimo Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs)
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Teofimo Lopez has stormed the pound-for-pound rankings along with his choice win over Vasyl Lomachenko. The American teen KOd Richard Commey in two rounds to initially win the IBF light-weight title and is now additionally the WBA, WBC ‘franchise’ and WBO champion.
5. Josh Taylor (18-0, 13 KOs)
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Josh Taylor conquered the WBSS super-lightweight match in spectacular trend, beating Ivan Baranchyk and Regis Prograis unify the WBA and IBF titles. He’s since gone on and beat Jose Ramirez – one other unbeaten champion – for the WBC and WBO belts to be topped undisputed king.
4. Oleksandr Usyk (18-0, 13 KOs)
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Oleksandr Usyk cleaned out his total division, changing into undisputed cruiserweight champion in 16 fights. The Ukrainian got here by all of his largest assessments in his opponents’ hometowns, travelling to beat the likes of Mairis Briedis in Latvia, Murat Gassiev in Russia and Tony Bellew within the UK. He’s now trying to repeat the feat at heavyweight.
3. Terence Crawford (37-0, 28 KOs)
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America’s Terence Crawford has received world titles in three weight courses, together with changing into undisputed super-lightweight king. Nevertheless, he’s but to face elite opposition. The WBO welterweight champion ranks so extremely primarily based on achievements and the way of his victories, however should unify with the opposite welterweights if he needs to grow to be pound-for-pound king.
2. Naoya Inoue (21-0, 18 KOs)
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Japanese three-weight world champion Naoya Inoue has already blasted by the light-flyweight and super-flyweight ranks, and is now a unified king at bantamweight. In his final struggle, the 26-year-old conquered the World Boxing Tremendous Sequence match within the 2019 ‘Combat of the Yr’ with Nonito Donaire.
1. Canelo Alvarez (56-1-2, 36 KOs)
Canelo has numerous spectacular names on his win sheet, together with the likes of Gennady Golovkin, Miguel Cotto, Daniel Jacobs, Billy Joe Saunders Callum Smith, Erislandy Lara, Shane Mosley, Amir Khan and Austin Trout. Whereas a few of these have include controversy, the Mexican’s conclusive knockout of Sergey Kovalev at light-heavyweight cements him as our pound-for-pound king.
