Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Still The Best In The World
Hard to believe, but it’s Sports List of the Day‘s 4th annual installment of the best boxers in the world, courtesy boxrec.com – the best boxing site on the Web. Thanks to all the sports fans out there who have kept both sites going!
Now, let’s take a look.
The still-undefeated Floyd Mayweather (46-0) continues to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. His media-nemesis (for they will never meet in the ring, it seems), Manny Pacquiao, clings to second-best.
Three Americans fell from last year’s list, but they have been replaced by three other Americans, maintaining the United States’ five-man presence (and leadership) amongst the rankings.
Japan comes in very strong in the lighter classes, including tops in four of the five lightest.
And how about Gennady Golovkin, the first Kazakh boxer to take over a No. 1 slot since we’ve been covering the best boxers in the world: 2011, 2012, 2013 and now…2014, below.
Follow @VinGetz| WEIGHT CLASS | TOP WEIGHT | BOXER | COUNTRY | 2013 TOP BOXER | |
| 1. | Pound For Pound | N/A | Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | USA | |
| 2. | Heavyweight | 200 lbs+ | Wladimir Klitschko | Ukraine | Vitali Klitschko (Ukraine) |
| 3. | Cruiserweight | 200 lbs | Yoan Pablo Hernandez | Cuba | |
| 4. | Light Heavyweight | 175 lbs | Adonis Stevenson | Canada | Bernard Hopkins (USA) |
| 5. | Super Middleweight | 168 lbs | Andre Ward | USA | |
| 6. | Middleweight | 160 lbs | Gennady Golovkin | Kazakhstan | Sergio Gabriel Martinez (Argentina) |
| 7. | Light Middleweight | 154 lbs | Saul Alvarez | Mexico | |
| 8. | Welterweight | 147 lbs | Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | USA | |
| 9. | Light Welterweight | 140 lbs | Danny Garcia | USA | Lamont Peterson (USA) |
| 10. | Lightweight | 135 lbs | Miguel Vazquez | Mexico | Adrien Broner (USA) |
| 11. | Super Featherweight | 130 lbs | Mikey Garcia | USA | Yuriorkis Gamboa (Cuba) |
| 12. | Featherweight | 126 lbs | Nonito Donaire | Philippines | Abner Mares (Mexico) |
| 13. | Super Bantamweight | 122 lbs | Guillermo Rigondeaux | Cuba | |
| 14. | Bantamweight | 118 lbs | Shinsuke Yamanaka | Japan | |
| 15. | Super Flyweight | 115 lbs | Omar Andres Narvaez | Argentina | Juan Carlos Sanchez, Jr. (Thailand) |
| 16. | Flyweight | 112 lbs | Akira Yaegashi | Japan | Juan Francisco Estrada (Mexico) |
| 17. | Light Flyweight | 108 lbs | Naoya Inoue | Japan | Roman Gonzalez (Nicaragua) |
| 18. | Minimumweight | 105 lbs | Katsunari Takayama | Japan |
Photo: bbc.com
