With more than half a year since the last update, there’s been plenty of room for changes in the BoxingScene Pound-for-Pound top ten.
The biggest change is at the top and there is only one thing every voting staff member could agree on…
Oleksandr Usyk is a unanimous choice for the third spot.
The big debate was of course for the top two spots in a battle between Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue. Following Crawford’s crushing victory over Errol Spence to stamp himself the lone welterweight king, Crawford got the nod.
Among other changes, Errol Spence and a Tyson Fury who doesn’t seem interested in serious fights right now exit while the top ten welcomes Gervonta Davis and Teofimo Lopez after big wins for both in 2023.
The full update can be found at: https://www.boxingscene.com/rankings/pound-for-pound
Contributing Staff: Manouk Akopyan, Jake Donovan, Lyle Fitzsimmons, Keith Idec, Sean Nam, Cliff Rold, Hans Themistode
As always, feel free to agree…and disagree. This list is for entertainment purposes only and based purely on imagination, hypotheticals, and conjecture just like every other pound for pound list ever written. Neither it nor any other such list made up of such illusory ingredients should be used to forward corporate agendas of any kind.
That doesn’t make it any less fun to argue about.
Last Update: December 29, 2022
Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene, a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, a member of the International Boxing Research Organization, and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at roldboxing@hotmail.com