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This table lists the current pound-for-pound

Pound for pound

Pound-for-pound is the term used in boxing, mixed martial arts and other combat sports to describe a fighter's value in relation to fighters of different weight classes....
rankings of The Ring

The Ring (magazine)

The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication....
magazine (the self-proclaimed "Bible of Boxing", owned by Golden Boy Promotions Inc.), which some boxing experts and fans regard as an authoritative source for ranking the best pound-for-pound boxers

Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
in the world. Floyd Mayweather Jr had been ranked number-one in The Rings P4P rankings from 2005 until he announced his retirement on June 6, 2008, after which he was replaced by Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiáo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
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This table lists the current pound-for-pound
Pound for pound

Pound-for-pound is the term used in boxing, mixed martial arts and other combat sports to describe a fighter's value in relation to fighters of different weight classes....
rankings of The Ring
The Ring (magazine)

The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication....
magazine (the self-proclaimed "Bible of Boxing", owned by Golden Boy Promotions Inc.), which some boxing experts and fans regard as an authoritative source for ranking the best pound-for-pound boxers
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
in the world. Floyd Mayweather Jr had been ranked number-one in The Rings P4P rankings from 2005 until he announced his retirement on June 6, 2008, after which he was replaced by Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiáo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
. Floyd Mayweather Jr was preceded by Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins is an United States Boxing. He is best known for his ten year reign as Middleweight World Champion in which he defended his title a record 20 times....
, who was in turn preceded by Roy Jones Jr.

Top 10 rankings

Rank Fighter * Record The Ring weight class Titles held at the moment
1 Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiáo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
48-3-2 (36 KO) Welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....

2 Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel M?rquez M?ndez is a Mexico professional Boxing and the current World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Organization lightweight world champion as well as the current The Ring lightweight champion....
50-4-1 (37 KO) Lightweight
Lightweight

The word lightweight usually refers to a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for liquor....

3 Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins is an United States Boxing. He is best known for his ten year reign as Middleweight World Champion in which he defended his title a record 20 times....
49-5-1-1 (32 KO) Light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....

4 Israel Vázquez
Israel Vázquez

Israel V?zquez Casta?eda is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the current The Ring Super Bantamweight champion after being stripped of his WBC Super Bantamweight championship for being inactive after a retina surgery....
43-4 (31 KO) Junior featherweight
5 Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley

"Sugar" Shane Mosley is a boxing from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current World_Boxing_Association#Current_WBA_world_title_holders....
46-5-0-1 (39 KO) Welterweight
6 Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez (boxer)

Rafael M?rquez M?ndez is a Mexican professional boxing. He is a former world champion at the IBF / IBO Bantamweight and WBC Super Bantamweight divisions....
37-5 (33 KO) Junior featherweight
7 Iván Calderón
Ivan Calderón (boxer)

Iv?n Calder?n Marrero is a Puerto Rican people professional Boxing. As an amateur Calder?n represented Puerto Rico in international competitions and attended the 2000 Olympic Games in Australia....
32-0 (6 KO) Junior flyweight
8 Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton

Richard John Hatton Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a United Kingdom professional boxing is a two-time International Boxing Federation and International Boxing Organisation light welterweight champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to step back down to the weight class and bea...
45-1 (32 KO) Junior welterweight
9 Celestino Caballero
Celestino Caballero

Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero is a professional boxing from Panama and is the unified World Boxing Association and IBF super bantamweight champion....
31-2 (22 KO) Junior featherweight
10 Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan

Vakhtang Darchinyan , more commonly known as Vic Darchinyan is a professional boxer who is the current World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation Undisputed Super Flyweight World Champion....
32-1-1 (26 KO) Junior bantamweight
* Fighters' nationalities as stated by The Ring -- the magazine considers the home countries as separate and distinct from one another.

See also

Boxing weight classes
Boxing weight classes

Boxing body weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...
List of current world boxing champions
List of current world boxing champions

This is a list of current boxing world champions who are certified by the four major boxing sanctioning bodies and The Ring magazine. Each champion's professional boxing record is shown in the following format: wins-losses-draws-no contests ....