Mikey Garcia hasn't fought since January of 2014 and doesn't yet have his next fight scheduled. Given his inactivity, he has been removed from the Saturday Night Boxing pound-for-pound list. For Garcia's replacement in the Rankings (he had previously been ranked at #19), I arrived at two candidates: Nicholas Walters, the featherweight titlist from Jamaica, and Donnie Nietes, the junior flyweight champ from the Philippines.
Although Walters has the higher profile victory of the two, with his knockout win over Nonito Donaire, I believe that Nietes, who has also won a title at strawweight, has the stronger resume. Nietes is 10-0-1 in title fights and has made five defenses of his current light flyweight title. His resume includes good wins over Pornsawan Porpramook, Moises Fuentes (he also had a draw with him) and Ramon Hirales. Walters has impressive wins against Donaire and Vic Darchinyan but in my estimation Darchinyan was already on the downside of his career when they met and he was well above his best weight class. Thus, Nietes enters the Rankings at #20. The complete Saturday Night Boxing pound-for-pound list is below:
- Floyd Mayweather
- Roman Gonzalez
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Manny Pacquiao
- Juan Manuel Marquez
- Tim Bradley
- Guillermo Rigondeaux
- Carl Froch
- Sergey Kovalev
- Juan Estrada
- Naoya Inoue
- Adonis Stevenson
- Miguel Cotto
- Danny Garcia
- Gennady Golovkin
- Saul Alvarez
- Takashi Uchiyama
- Shinsuke Yamanaka
- Terence Crawford
- Donnie Nietes
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