“Pound-for-Pound” has always been a concept as elusive as it is alluring. Boxing experts and fans alike have always differed in how much weight to give certain criteria; recent and past activity, number of belts held, quality of opposition, head-to-head ability (also known as the infamous “eye test”), etc. As a community of passionate fans well-versed in online debate and discusison, we’ve decided to try and calculate a consensus by tallying each of our individual rankings. Our results are as follows:
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1. Canelo Alvarez
2. Naoya Inoue
3. Oleksandr Usyk
4. Terrence Crawford
5. Josh Taylor
6. Juan Estrada
7. Errol Spence Jr.
8. Teofimo Lopez
9. Vasyl Lomachenko
10. Tyson Fury
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