Two changes have been made to the Saturday Night Boxing Pound-for-Pound list. After stopping fellow middleweight titleholder David Lemieux, Gennady Golovkin moves up three spots to #8. Also, junior flyweight titlist Donnie Nietes switches places in the Rankings with bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka. Nietes soundly defeated Juan Alejo this weekend and has amassed a solid body of work at 108 pounds over his nine title defenses (formerly, he had also been a strawweight titleholder). However, the switch in the Rankings has more to do with Yamanaka, who won a controversial split decision over Anselmo Moreno in his last fight. I (and practically all other observers) scored the match for Moreno. It was a competitive fight but Moreno deserved the nod. Yamanaka has had a quality reign as a titleholder but based on present form, Nietes moves ahead of him. Nietes rises to #17 and Yamanaka drops one spot to #18.
The complete Saturday Night Boxing Pound-for-Pound list is below:
- Roman Gonzalez
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Andre Ward
- Manny Pacquiao
- Tim Bradley
- Sergey Kovalev
- Juan Estrada
- Gennady Golovkin
- Guillermo Rigondeaux
- Naoya Inoue
- Adonis Stevenson
- Miguel Cotto
- Saul Alvarez
- Danny Garcia
- Takashi Uchiyama
- Terence Crawford
- Donnie Nietes
- Shinsuke Yamanaka
- Nicholas Walters
- Leo Santa Cruz
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