He's done great things for sure but he doesn't top the pacman.

It will be interesting next month though. I mean Pacquaio is fighting a really tough fight against Oscar. If he loses that then by default he'll have to drop a place even though Oscar is bigger so Calzaghe may well be number 1 then.

I know Marquez if often ranked above him though but I don't think he can continue to be.

I don't see how a close defeat and a draw to the Pacman, and wins over an old Casamayor and old Barrera match up to wins over Jones, Hopkins, Kessler and Lacy. When you add in Marquez's loss to Chris John in the same time period as well it's really hard to argue a case for him being higher than Joe on anything except favouritism imo.

Especially in the light of Barrera clearly being finished as a top level fighter as demonstrated by his lacklustre effort against Pacquiao in the rematch.

Hopkins may be old but his performance against Pavlik shows he's still very much amongst the best in the world.