Boxing Top 10 Pound-for-Pound World Rankings

Boxing Top 10 Pound-for-Pound World Rankings

Different ways to become a top pound-for-pound fighter in boxing. Top Boxer Rankings list are presented by their points as wins, losses, draws, KOs based prepaired.

Rating by Current World Rankings

POUND-FOR-POUND TOP 10

1. Floyd Mayweather - Light welterweight
Floyd Mayweather - Former two-weight world champion
United States (35 wins, 0 losses, 0 draws, 24KOs)

Unbeaten at super lightweight and feather, Mayweather destroyed Arturo Gatti to win the WBC light welterweight crown. This win combined with Bernard Hopkins' loss puts him at top of tree.

2. Marco Antonio Barrera - Super featherweight
Marco Antonio Barrera - WBC super featherweight champion
Mexico (61-4, 42KOs)
Remove any suggestion he was a spent force by beating Morales in the third installment of their trilogy cracks. Battle-marked at age 31, he became a force to be reckoned with and a giant dragon.

3. Winky Wright - Middleweight
WBC and WBA light middleweight champion
United States (49-3, 25KOs)
Exploded from the shadows by beating Shane Mosley in a welterweight and placed on a left master, stepping up the outbox Felix Trinidad.

4. Manny Pacquiao - Featherweight
Manny Pacquiao - Former two-weight world champion
Philippines (41-3-2, 33KOs)
Pacquiao defeated Erik Morales was brave in 2005. But he was brilliant revenge in January, became the first man to stop in Mexico.

5. Ricky Hatton - Light welterweight
Ricky Hatton
England (40-0, 30KOs)

The "Hitman" has been cut, but then cut WBA champion Carlos Mauss. A confrontation with tasty Mayweather could continue in 2006.

6. Joe Calzaghe - Super middleweight
Joe Calzaghe - IBF/WBO super middleweight champion
Wales (41-0, 31KOs)
Calzaghe gave one of the largest screens by a British boxer to beat Jeff Lacy and Welsh today in the world at his feet.

7. Jermain Taylor - Middleweight
Jermain Taylor - Undisputed middleweight champion
United States (25-0, 17KOs)
Taylor claimed the biggest scalp in boxing when he won a split decision over Hopkins and he saved with a less controversial victory in the rematch.

8. Jose Luis Castillo - Lightweight
Jose Luis Castillo
Mexico (53-7-1, 47KOs)
Took their revenge on Diego Corrales fast and trying to move up to the power-packed welterweight division.

9. Antonio Tarver - Light heavyweight
Antonio Tarver
United States (24-3, 18KOs)
Roy Jones Jr. beat Glen Johnson and enhance its reputation and earned him a place in the table of boxing.

10. Rafael Marquez - Bantamweight
Rafael Marquez - IBF bantamweight champion
Mexico (35-3, 31KOs)
Marquez held the IBF belt since 2003 and in his six title defenses have shown that he can box or bang their way to victory.