Avila’s Pound for Pound List 2011 |
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:23
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Khan’s victory over Argentina’s hard punching Marcos Maidana in the talented junior welterweight division places him on the list. Hopefully, Khan will be fighting fellow pound for pounder Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley later this year. donputo69 says:
Ugly List...Why scareweather is still there?...That clown hasnt fought since...uuuummmmm....uuuuuummmmm....I cant even remember....Heres my list: 1. Pacquaio...2. Martinez...3. Donaire...4. W.Klitschko...5. Cotto...6. Juanma...7. Bute...8. Khan...9. donputo69...10.Judah...Let the hate begin...Holla Back!!! Editor Mike says:
I'd have me a coupla Klitschkos on my T10, I think...Don has Judah at 10! donputo69 says:
@Mike...Lets give my boy Zab a shot...I rather have Zab at 10 than to have Scareweather and Hopkins 2 & 3....Lmfao...Also...I think maidana should get atleast a honorable nomination...Holla Back!!! Condor says:
P4P is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Mayweather doesn't belong (inactivity) and Hopkins is way too high (Pascal scored two knockdowns; Hopkins failed to knock him out and take the judges out of the equation, something that a wickedly wise pugilist would have done). Donaire and Ward should be higher, and the Klitschkos at a minimum are top 10 (higher in my book, based on the definition of P4P). MisterLee says:
1.) Pacquiao 2.) Donaire 3.) Martinez 4.) Bhop 5.) Andre Ward 6.) Juan Manual Marquez 7.) Timothy Bradley ...okay... throw in a couple K bros. in there.... i don't think Khan belongs. He's way too green, has many flaws, and has beaten: a boxer who can't punch (malig) and a puncher who can't box (maidana). Bradley will expose him. Holler! MisterLee says:
Andre Ward 2011! amayseng says:
as everyone is entitled to their own opinion i have no idea how floyd is in the top ten. first he beat a jmm who came up 2 div and floyd still didnt make weight, then he beat a 39 year old 16 month inactive shane, plus floyd hasnt fought in 11 months, shouldnt be on there. FighterforJC says:
Terrible list. It's all subjective, I understand, but one can only ignore dominance and cherrypicking/inactivity so much, as in why are the K-bros missing in the top 5, and how is Mayweather still #2? And why is B-Hop #3? So B-Hop managed to get dropped twice by Pascal, who isn't very good to begin with. That makes Hopkins #3? And how in the world is urine-drinking JMM ranked above Martinez? JMM has been feasting on corpses in the last two years. I'm surprised that Pacquiao made it in this top 10 list, let alone the #1 spot, considering its atrocity. FighterforJC says:
as everyone is entitled to their own opinion i have no idea how floyd is in the top ten. first he beat a jmm who came up 2 div and floyd still didnt make weight, then he beat a 39 year old 16 month inactive shane, plus floyd hasnt fought in 11 months, shouldnt be on there.
1. sergi0---his last 4 opponents are more impressive and not weight drained compared to pacs, pac fighting clottey and marg took him out of this spot 2. pac 3. bernard 4. nonito 5. ward im too tired to think of the next 5 hahaha Here we go again with the "weight drained" BS. Yep. Margarito, a lifelong 147 pounder who has fought maybe twice at 154, and all of a sudden he's weight drained when he gets to put on 3 extra pounds above 147 to fight Pacquiao? And how is fighting Clottey, one of the top 3 welters at the time detrimental to Pacquiao? In the meantime, Martinez puts a beating on a fighter no one's heard of before after knocking out the overrated, on-the-downhill Paul Williams against whom he struggled with in the first match, not to mention the HIGHLY competitive bout against Pavlik, who was beaten in a one-sided bout by Hopkins, and that makes Martinez more impressive? LOLLLLL amayseng says:
fighterJC dont get me wrong, im a huge pac fan, he is a stud, brings it, is exciting admin says:
So in your mind how does Pacman move higher on your P4P list? fighterJC dont get me wrong, im a huge pac fan, he is a stud, brings it, is exciting
i just dont think you can count the dlh fight because he was drained, and although cotto is a stud i dont like how they had him come down a few lbs, and yes a few lbs is detrimental, even though pac beats him at 154... marg didnt deserve the fight due to illegal complications but more importantly shane almost killed him then he was lackluster in a 10 round decision in mexico pac is a stud, but these circumstances put his comp behind martinez is all FighterforJC says:
Absolutely you can count the DLH fight. It was De la Hoya who pursued Pacquiao, not the other way around. DLH figured that the odds were heavily stacked in his favor with Pacquiao having to jump two weight classes after having had just one fight at lightweight. If DLH felt like he would be "weight drained" at 147, he should've challenged Pacquiao at at least 150. And as I've mentioned numerous times before which nobody seems to care about, if you recall the live broadcast, the commentators said that Freddie Roach was surprised by Pacquiao's official weight because Pac was about 3 to 4 pounds heavier on their own scale from their hotel room not too long before the official weigh in. That implies that the scales were tampered with in order for DLH to make the contracted weight. In reality, DLH came in a pound or two OVER the limit. Of course, HBO quickly realized their mistake and the implications of what they said and immediately covered up their mistake by stating later in that DLH supposedly reweighed himself on fight day, thereby validating the official weights from the day before. Cotto was the ONLY real "catchweight" fight for Pacquiao, and to this day, Cotto puts no blame on the weight. Pacquiao haters and Cotto fans ought to follow suit. And like I mentioned, how can you possibly consider Marg to be weight drained when he was allowed to put on 3 extra pounds? I could understand if Marg had been fighting at 154 for several years then having to drop down to 150, but was not the case. As for Martinez, his quality of opposition reeks. Paul Williams has been looking more and more average prior to the rematch with Martinez, practically ending all the speculation about Williams' mythical potential. Same with Pavlik, who was soundly whipped by Hopkins but managed to make the Martinez fight very competitive. And now we have the dzinzurik or however you spell that, who came out from under a rock. No, Martinez doesn't deserve to be in the top 3 let alone the top spot. The Klitschko bros have a far stronger claim for the #1 slot as they've been dominating for years. amayseng says:
Absolutely you can count the DLH fight. It was De la Hoya who pursued Pacquiao, not the other way around. DLH figured that the odds were heavily stacked in his favor with Pacquiao having to jump two weight classes after having had just one fight at lightweight. If DLH felt like he would be "weight drained" at 147, he should've challenged Pacquiao at at least 150. If the so-called experts were truly concerned about DLH's weight, they shouldn't have made him the 3 to 1 favorite over Pacquiao. And as I've mentioned numerous times before which nobody seems to care about, if you recall the live broadcast, the commentators said that Freddie Roach was surprised by Pacquiao's official weight because Pac was about 3 to 4 pounds heavier on their own scale from their hotel room not too long before the official weigh in. That implies that the scales were tampered with in order for DLH to make the contracted weight. In reality, DLH came in a pound or two OVER the limit. Of course, HBO quickly realized their mistake and the implications of what they said and immediately covered up their mistake by stating later in that DLH supposedly reweighed himself on fight day, thereby validating the official weights from the day before. Cotto was the ONLY real "catchweight" fight for Pacquiao, and to this day, Cotto puts no blame on the weight. Pacquiao haters and Cotto fans ought to follow suit. And like I mentioned, how can you possibly consider Marg to be weight drained when he was allowed to put on 3 extra pounds? I could understand if Marg had been fighting at 154 for several years then having to drop down to 150, but was not the case. As for Martinez, his quality of opposition reeks. Paul Williams has been looking more and more average prior to the rematch with Martinez, practically ending all the speculation about Williams' mythical potential. Same with Pavlik, who was soundly whipped by Hopkins but managed to make the Martinez fight very competitive. And now we have the dzinzurik or however you spell that, who came out from under a rock. No, Martinez doesn't deserve to be in the top 3 let alone the top spot. The Klitschko bros have a far stronger claim for the #1 slot as they've been dominating for years.
i did not mean to imply marg was weight drained in any way, but what i mean is that marg is damaged goods after shane, and had a poor, poor outing right before pac... FighterforJC says:
i did not mean to imply marg was weight drained in any way, but what i mean is that marg is damaged goods after shane, and had a poor, poor outing right before pac... pavlik got out classed by hop but pav did go up two weight classes...his power was irrelevant...still an excellent win for bhop doesnt matter if dlh challenged or pursued pac, that was a weight drained dlh, a very poor dlh therefore you cant put much measure on it.. pac did not fight a good version of dlh is all. fact is fact. i love pac, but i do have a problem with him getting a title at 154 when neither guy weighed in at 154.... how does that work? The same way it worked for Leonard vs Lalonde. Isaiah says:
Ya'all musta forgot! It's #1)Sergio Martinez, #2)Manny Pacquiao, #3)Juan Manuel Marquez, #4)Bernard Hopkins #5)Nonito Donaire #6)Wladimir Klitschko #7)Timothy Bradley #8.)Fraud Bedwetter, I mean Floyd Mayweather (who can't even mention Martinez or Pacquiao's names without pi$$ing herself! LOL!) #9)Miguel Cotto and #10)Vitali Klitschko. What?! Did anyone think I was gone for good?! Shoot! I hurt the right hand and hit him with the left! Ya'all musta forgot! LOL! Radam G says:
Enchantment of jive optical illusions and mass confusion is absolutely astounding! Hum! Sergio Martinez is the latest master of fooling those bandwagon jumpers that he is all that and a bag of chips. Humbuggery Bullspittin' Organization -- HBO -- is darn GOOD! That broadcasting team is straight-up AWESOME! WTF! HBO has now convinced many fanfaronades that SM is now the most superbad pound-for-pound fighter on the planet. Max Kellerman, YA DA MAN! Apparently you can spit to these HBO fight fans that King Kong ain't nuffin' on Sergio Martinez. And SM is the latest version of the prime Superman Roy Jones Jr. It is all good, though! Max K has said many times that "Boxing is the theatre of the unexpected." So no one should unexpectedly be surprised of the latest HBO superhype who is so enchanted with boxing skills and speed that Da Manny, Da Money and even Da Miguel are trembling, hiding and now ducking this professional great amateurish fighter.
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Two pound for pound candidates breezed through recent tests to maintain their spot on the list and the guy on the top still remains.
Largely ditto da TSS West Bureau Chiefy David Double-A P4P list. Holla!