Welcome everyone, to the slowest time of the year for boxing fans. I’m talking about the period from mid-December to early January when the sport essentially shuts down, at least at the highest levels.
On the plus side, that barren time is coming to an end. Just as the birds usher in the Spring, the return of Friday Night Fights heralds a brand new year of fisticuffs. And since FNF is coming our way in two days, we’ve almost made it.
In the meantime, we can debate who’s hot and who’s not, which is what our Power Rankings are all about (well, the former part anyway). This isn’t a pound-for-pound list (we just did one of those, and we only do it once a year), but a pseudo-scientific manner of determining who has impressed the most during the last three years. It’s probably heavier on the pseudo than the scientific, but none of us were math or physics majors, so we do the best we can.
Our top four remains intact from December, but there was shuffling around among the other spots thanks to Amir Khan’s recent loss and Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Oscar De La Hoya now falling outside the three-year rolling window for these rankings. And if that isn’t one for the “time flies when you’re having fun” file, I don’t know what is.
On to the numbers!
