{"id":51475,"date":"2015-03-08T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51475"},"modified":"2015-03-08T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T04:03:17","slug":"travis-flemings-top-20-pound-for-pound-fighters-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51475","title":{"rendered":"Travis Fleming\u2019s Top 20 Pound For Pound Fighters On The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"full\"By who else? Travis Fleming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are my top 20 pound for pound fighters on the planet as of today.<\/p>\n

Andre Ward has been left off the list due to being inactive for over a year. If he returns and notches a high quality win, he will regain his #2 ranking.<\/p>\n

1. Floyd Mayweather, JR.<\/strong><\/span>
\n 2. Manny Pacquiao<\/strong><\/span>
\n 3. Guillermo Rigondeaux<\/strong><\/span>
\n 4. Roman Gonzalez<\/strong><\/span>
\n 5. Wladimir Klitschko<\/strong><\/span>
\n 6. Timothy Bradley<\/strong><\/span>
\n 7. Juan Manuel Marquez<\/strong><\/span>
\n 8. Sergey Kovalev<\/strong><\/span>
\n 9. Saul Alvarez<\/strong><\/span>
\n 10. Gennady Golovkin<\/strong><\/span>
\n 11. Terrence Crawford<\/strong><\/span>
\n 12. Carl Froch<\/strong><\/span>
\n 13. Miguel Cotto<\/strong><\/span>
\n 14. Danny Garcia<\/strong><\/span>
\n 15. Nicholas Walters<\/strong><\/span>
\n 16. Juan Francisco Estrada<\/strong><\/span>
\n 17. Erislandy Lara<\/strong><\/span>
\n 18. Marcos Maidana<\/strong><\/span>
\n 19. Amir Khan<\/strong><\/span>
\n 20. Keith Thurman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is just one scribes personal list, and in reality, a case can be made for many different fighters for #5-#20 and an argument can be made to place certain fighters higher or lower than my personal ranking. All in all, I took into account recent quality wins, obvious top level skill sets and established high level operators. Some fighters were skilled enough to be higher but were new to the elite level and lacked the overall body of work to be placed higher.<\/p>\n

Let the hate emails and posts begin\u2026 We welcome them all at Ringside Report \u201cThe Heart of Boxing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Stay gold fight fans!<\/p>\n

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