Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s win over Shane Mosley earned him the pound-for-pound top ranking in Yahoo! Sports.
Mayweather beat Pacquiao by 6 points in the voting conducted with boxing sportswriters around the world. Mayweather got 20 first place votes for a total of 317 points while Pacquiao received 13 first places votes for 310.
Pacquiao, however, is still Ring Magazine’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter and Mayweather is No. 2.
Here is the complete list of the Yahoo! Sports Top 10 Pound-for-pound boxers:
- Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Manny Pacquiao
- Paul Williams
- Juan Manuel Marquez
- Chad Dawson
- Sergio Martinez
- Vladimir Klitschko
- Timothy Bradley
- Shane Mosley
- Juan Manuel Lopez
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FLOYD if you reclaim as the best boxer ever…why you would hesitate to fight manny??? Are you afraid of losing??? IF that’s what u think you are “COWARD” hehe
your correct…Floyd BAYOT!!!
a person who votes for mayweather jr. as pound 4 pound was also a coward…
If he was the best fighter this year why he refuses to fight against the 7 weight title holder Manny Pacquiao???Let “FLOYD die” without loss in his boxing history and to all the fans of Floyd make him an statue to Las Vegas which He holds a banner sayin “FLOYD THE BEST GAY EVER IN BOXING HISTORY”…haha