The inaugural Yahoo! Sports boxing pound-for-pound top 10 poll is out, with no surprises at the top.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a near-unanimous choice of the elite 10-member panel, getting nine first place votes to top the list.
Manny Pacquiao, who was the 2006 Fighter of the Year, was a clear second choice.
Pacquiao got the first-place vote that didn’t go to Mayweather, was second on eight ballots and third on another.
ADVERTISEMENT Mayweather and Pacquiao are the only fighters who were named on all 10 ballots.
The question is how much the poll will change by the end of the year, because so many fighters who are on the list or who narrowly missed making it are scheduled to meet.
Mayweather, for example, will take on unbeaten Brit Ricky Hatton on Dec. 8. Hatton didn’t make the top 10, but he came in 12th.
WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, who was voted sixth, will meet No. 10 Shane Mosley in November. Pacquiao will face Marco Antonio Barrera, who came in 14th in the voting.
The poll members who voted, in additi
