There have been several changes to Saturday Night Boxing
Pound-for-Pound List, mostly centered on activity. Although Juan Estrada
returned to the ring earlier this month against whatever a Raymond Tabugon is, the bout was his first in over a year and it has been over 24 months since he's fought a
decent opponent. Now, much of Estrada's 2016 campaign has been curtailed because of
injury; however, without much activity or quality opponents, it's tough for
Estrada to maintain his lofty position in the top portion of the Rankings. For
now, Estrada drops from #6 to #8. Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez both move
up one spot as a result of Estrada's slide.
Former two-weight champion
Donnie Nietes dominated ex-titlist
Edgar Sosa last month. (Nietes officially left junior flyweight for flyweight prior to the match.) Nietes made 14 defenses of his two belts and wants to take on big
names at 112 lbs. He moves up two spots from #17 to #15. Miguel Cotto and Danny
Garcia both drop a position.
It's exceptionally rare when a
fighter enters the Rankings following a loss but Carlos Cuadras accomplished that
feat after taking number-one pound-for-pound fighter Roman Gonzalez to the brink last month in
a very competitive match. Prior to his loss with Gonzalez, Cuadras had made six
defenses of his junior bantamweight belt. His rousing performance against
Gonzalez clearly indicates that he belongs among the top fighters in the world. He
enters the Rankings at #20. As a result, Keith Thurman drops off the list.
On another note,
Tyson Fury will maintain his position in the Rankings until it becomes clear how
the various sanctioning bodies and commissions will rule on his positive test
for cocaine.
The complete Saturday
Night Boxing Pound-for-Pound list is below:
- Roman Gonzalez
- Manny Pacquiao
- Andre Ward
- Sergey Kovalev
- Terence Crawford
- Gennady Golovkin
- Saul Alvarez
- Juan Estrada
- Tim Bradley
- Guillermo Rigondeaux
- Naoya Inoue
- Adonis Stevenson
- Tyson Fury
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Donnie Nietes
- Miguel Cotto
- Danny Garcia
- Vasyl Lomachenko
- Carl Frampton
- Carlos Cuadras
He is also a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
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