Saddo's Official Pound for Pound List II

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Not trying to enter your little debate about Hatton or Mijares, but I'll just point out the flaw in the logic here - you cannot really compare the ring rankings across divisions, and think that #7 in one division is necessarily better than #9 in another.

Beating the third best at 135 (Joan Guzman) is helluvalot better than beating the third best at 130 (Luevano), while beating the fouth best at 147 (Margarito) is even better still.

The point is Mijares is fighting the best competition available to him and doing well against them. Hatton is not fighting the best competition available (except Mayweather where he lost).

That may or may not be a good point (I'm not sure actually). Shouldnt a boxer be judged solely on the merits of who he beats (and not by who he does not beat (or face))?

I still dont want to get into the argument over Hatton or Mijares, though.

No I think any fighter that is worthy of p4p status has to make the decision to fight the best available or do something that far exceeds his peers. So by comparison two undefeated fighters 'Finito' Lopez was a p4p fighter, while Sven Ottke was not. The reason Ottke was not a p4p fighter was because he elected to not face the highest level of competition available to him. This is an extreme case and I an definately not trying to liken Hatton to Ottke by any means except to illustrate my point.

I would like to make clear that my p4p list changes often and for fighters to keep my respect and stay on my list they have to continue to do things to impress. This makes fighters accountable to not live off of one win and limit the amounts of fights to 1 or 2 per year, which lets be honest it is the standard operating procedure nowadays.

As far as the Hatton - Mijares argument goes

Noones gonna say they were wrong here, not me, not Fenster, not Lefty, not CutMeMick and not Hattonthehammer