Maravilla! Canelo! It’s like an all Spanish nickname edition of the BoxingWatchers power rankings.
Okay, not quite. But Sergio Martinez rejoins our top 10 following his knockout of Darren Barker, and Saul Alvarez enters for the first time as he continues… well, being Saul Alvarez.
Also making a charge up the list is Amir Khan, who didn’t fight this past month. However, his loss to Breidis Prescott moved outside of the rolling three-year period (though it doesn’t seem that long ago) we use for the rankings, and with that albatross now in his past, his score improves by quite a bit.
This is as good a time as any to make the obligatory mention that this is not a pound-for-pound list, but rather our own patent pending method of ranking how impressive top boxers have been during the past three years. Activity and wins are most important, plus the wins are modified by the decisiveness of the victories (KOs are best, followed by UD with SD bringing up the rear). The recent winning percentages of your beaten opponents is also a big factor. Losses, obviously, are not so good. If your favorite top pound-for-pound boxer isn’t in the top 10 (most notably Floyd Mayweather and Bernard Hopkins), it’s usually because he hasn’t been active enough during the past three years.
