Boxing P4P List on Tns #62 – The edition of the TalknShoot Boxing podcast delves into the current top 10 pound for pound boxers in the world today. The best P4P boxers is always a great source for discussion and 2018 has been a year where the list has really solidified in the post Floyd Mayweather Jr world.
TalknShoot’s Top 10 pound for pound boxers (May 2018):
#1 Terence Crawford
#2 Vasyl Lomachenko
#3 Mikey Garcia
#4 Sor Rungvisai
#5 Gennady Golovkin
#6 Jorge Linares
#7 Leo Santa Cruz
#8 Gary Russell Jr
#9 Carl Frampton
#10 Errol Spence Jr
Boxing P4P List
The number one and two spots on the pound for pound list have not changed since the last edition, as welterweight stud Terence Crawford owns the top spot and Ukranian hitman Vasyl Lomachenko sits at number two.
Many of the lists out there are going to have the 12-1 Lomachenko in the #1 spot. Loma has dispatched Guillermo Rigoneaux and Jorge Linares in the past six months. A look back at the TnS list that closed out 2017 sees Linares at #3 and Rigondeaux at #4 so it is hard to argue with Lomachenko’s level of competition.
Lomachenko won a world title at lightweight just this past week when he got off the canvas in the seventh round to stop Linares with a liver shot in the tenth. Lomachenko had to show a lot in that fight, including fighting after being dropped and facing an opponent who is longer and taller. The win gave him a world title in a third weight class.
Some people had elevated Loma in their P4P lists four or five fights ago, and with under ten fights that is too soon. But his hit list in his last 6 fights starting with his knock out of Roman Martinez have all been world champions.
But Crawford (32-0) was the #1 guy and he has not lost. What is more, Crawford united the world titles at 140 pounds by humiliating high level fighters, similar to the way Lomachenko has. After grabbing the world titles at light welterweight he vacated the belts and announced he is moving up to welterweight, where the competition is wide open. In early June he faces Australia’s Jeff Horn for the Aussie’s WBO world title as he starts his collection at 147 pounds. Horn figures to be easier than Keith Thurman, Errol Spence Jr and some of the other top guns in the weight class.
Mikey Garcia (38-0) is firmly in the #3 spot and moving up to #4 is Thailand’s Sor Rungvisai. Rungvisai broke into the top 10 list with his back to back wins over Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Gonzalez once held the #1 spot on this list but the rugged Rungvisai roughed him up and then he improved on the pounding in their rematch. In what seems like a never ending fight for respect by Rungvisai, it took his win over Juan Francisco Estrada to convince people he was more than Gonzalez nemesis.
Who graces the rest of the list? Take a listen to TalknShoot Podcast #62 as we get into the best pound for pound fighters in the world today.
December of 2017 TnS Top 10 P4P Boxers
#1 Terence Crawford
#2 Vasyl Lomachenko
#3 Jorge Linares
#4 Guillermo Rigondeaux
#5 Mikey Garcia
#6 Leo Santa Cruz
#7 Gary Russell Jr
#8 Carl Frampton
#9 Sor Rungvisai
#10 Gennady Golovkin
Talking the Boxing P4P List on Tns #62 / Check out more boxing news and features at The Sweet Science.
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