Saddo's Pound For Pound Voting (Summer 2010) voting open till May 31st

[Kev]

1.Mayweather
2.Pacquiao
3.Wladimir
4.Martinez
5.Ward
6.Mosley
7.Hopkins
8.Bute
9.Bradley
10.Adamek

i'd say somewhere around there

If Haye doesn't make it in to the top how does Adamek?

And who has Bute beat to justify being number 8?

And where is J M Marquez? Or Paul Williams who beat your number 4 last time out?

This is a shitty list

Bute has wins over Andrade, Bika, Miranda just to name a few

Adamek has been a champion in 2 weight classes just like Haye, yet he already has a better resume than Haye at HW, Adamek's 3rd weight class

JMM is fighting Juan Diaz again, Malignaggi just took Diaz to school, if i was to take anyone out to put Marquez back in it would be Hopkins who looked done in his last fight

Williams just barely beat Martinez, and Martinez went on to become the lineal Middleweight champion of the world in his very next fight

How does Adamek have a better resume than Haye at heavyweight? Haye beat Valuev who to my understanding was rated number 3 in the world, Arreola has never held a belt and lost every round in his world title challenge before being stopped.

And Haye beat THE man at cruiserweight so his resume is better there too.

Adamek also lost a lopsided decision to Chad Dawson only a couple of years ago.

Marquez is still p4p, many thought he beat Pacquaio only a couple years ago and since then knocked out Casamayor and Juan Diaz. Floyd was well over his natural weight limit.

Williams has to be higher than Martinez considering he beat him.

[amat]

I calculate my P4P lists differently based more on talent then accomplishments. Of course accomplishments are factored in but honestly these are who I believe the 10 best fighters in boxing are who are at least champions. Guys with more accomplishments (Marquez, Bradley) though are given the benefit of a higher position.

1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Manny Pacquiao
3. Timothy Bradley
4. Juan Manuel Marquez
5. Paul Williams
6. Sergio Martinez
7. Andre Ward
8. Juanma Lopez
9. Wladimir Klitschko
10. Chad Dawson
11. Nonito Donaire
12. Lucian Bute
13. Fernando Montiel
14. Chris John
15. Celistino Caballero
16. Yohnny Perez
17. Shane Mosley
18. Poonsawat Kraetingdaenggym (the best fighter from Thailand in the last 10 years imo even though I haven't seen his last fight)
19. Arthur Abraham (I have him ahead of Dirrell because I think he beats more fighters then Dirrell)
20. Miguel Cotto

You could pretty much arrange 4-20 however way you want to imo.

[Kev]

I calculate my P4P lists differently based more on talent then accomplishments. Of course accomplishments are factored in but honestly these are who I believe the 10 best fighters in boxing are who are at least champions. Guys with more accomplishments (Marquez, Bradley) though are given the benefit of a higher position.

1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Manny Pacquiao
3. Timothy Bradley
4. Juan Manuel Marquez
5. Paul Williams
6. Sergio Martinez
7. Andre Ward
8. Juanma Lopez
9. Wladimir Klitschko
10. Chad Dawson
11. Nonito Donaire
12. Lucian Bute
13. Fernando Montiel
14. Chris John
15. Celistino Caballero
16. Yohnny Perez
17. Shane Mosley
18. Poonsawat Kraetingdaenggym (the best fighter from Thailand in the last 10 years imo even though I haven't seen his last fight)
19. Arthur Abraham (I have him ahead of Dirrell because I think he beats more fighters then Dirrell)
20. Miguel Cotto

You could pretty much arrange 4-20 however way you want to imo.

I like this list but you are damn big on Bradley. I'm not confident he will even be champ at 140 past 2010 to be honest.

I think Devon Alexander gives him fits. He'd not compete at welter either imo.

I think you're overating him a lot. Even Amir beats him imo.

[amat]

No way. I'd say Bradley behind Pacquiao is the most rapidly improving boxer in boxing. You look at him versus Peterson and him versus Witter and it's two completely different fighters. He's the ultimate volume punching guy these days and he would absolutely drown Amir Khan. Khan doesn't have any seasoning, Bradley's whole style is to expose that.

I've been as high on Alexander as anyone but Bradley is a tall task I hope that fight happens.

[amat]

What's sad is Valero would have been high on my list and I also thought of him as one of the most improving fighters, probably right behind Bradley.

[0james0]

I struglled with my top 10, now I'm glad I'm not alone.

3-10 is tough, 10-20 is near impossible to seperate.

I go for current skills though over past accomplishments. The past doesn't mean much, it's all about who would beat who based on skills, style and ability if weight was equal.

IMO Haye would beat most as he can bang and he can move.

The Klitches are hard to fathom, not only because they have fought poor fighters, but because they haven't had the fighters to fight.

[JazMerkin]

I'm gonna ask one of the MODs to merge this into the Pound For Pound votes thread, seeing as there's a few here & no point people doing it again, if that's cool with you Bilbo?