Ring Magazine pound for pound

Pound for pound is a term from martial arts, particularly boxing. It is about the categorization or ranking of boxers according to their performance and corresponds to a world ranking. Since there are 17 different weight classes in professional boxing, which leads up to 5 different world champions, this division of the objectivity and clarity is.

A direct duel of a lighter athlete with a much heavier in martial arts would usually lead to the victory of the heavier and larger, without something to testify about the individual class of the heavier or lighter.

The pound-for- pound ranking ranking is intended to reference the fight gradients ( dominance, technical skills, fantastic history, impact or hit rate) and the class of the past opponents facilitate a classification based on considering the wealth of world champions in the 17 weight classes of term " world champion" so is not given.

Pound -for-pound leaders are often been world champions of different weight classes or associations. So have been the basis of the above criteria in the past 15 years as a leader in this ranking Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Shane Mosley, Roy Jones, Oscar de la Hoya, Joe Calzaghe, Juan Manuel Marquez and Bernard Hopkins.

The Ring as a boxing journal and other publications and Internet forums to update monthly basis the ranking that identifies the top 50 boxers.