With the conclusion of November's fight action, there have been a number of changes to the Saturday Night Boxing pound-for-pound list. The fighters mentioned below have their current rank listed with their previous placement in parenthesis.
Sergey Kovalev: 10 (20) Kovalev dominated unified beltholder Bernard Hopkins earlier this month. He scored a knockdown in the first round and almost ended things in the 12th. With that win, he now has the best victory in the division and has yet to face a competitive challenge on the world level. He moves up 10 spots to #10.
Terence Crawford: 20 (unranked) After scoring a near-shutout of lightweight contender Ray Beltran, Crawford enters the pound-for-pound list at #20. In 2014, Crawford has defeated titlist Ricky Burns, tough power puncher Yuriorkis Gamboa and now Beltran. After the Beltran fight, Crawford announced that he would move up to 140-lbs., a division that features a number of excellent fighters. Crawford could be in position to rise in the Rankings rapidly over the next 12-18 months.
Bernard Hopkins: Unranked (10) Hopkins failed to be competitive against fellow titleholder Kovalev and drops out of the Rankings. Ultimately, a fighter can't be regarded as one of the best in the sport if he can't win more than a round or so against another top fighter in the division.
Here is the complete Saturday Night Boxing pound-for-pound list:
- Floyd Mayweather
- Andre Ward
- Roman Gonzalez
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Manny Pacquiao
- Juan Manuel Marquez
- Tim Bradley
- Guillermo Rigondeaux
- Carl Froch
- Sergey Kovalev
- Juan Estrada
- Adonis Stevenson
- Miguel Cotto
- Danny Garcia
- Gennady Golovkin
- Saul Alvarez
- Takashi Uchiyama
- Shinsuke Yamanaka
- Mikey Garcia
- Terence Crawford
Adam Abramowitz is the head writer and founder of saturdaynightboxing.com.
He is also a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
He is also a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Contact Adam at saturdaynightboxing@hotmail.com
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