Holding all things equal, who’s the best boxer on the planet?
Round By Round Boxing (RBRBoxing) surveys a distinguished and diverse panel of boxing writers, photographers, videographers, and podcasters, an award-winning scholar, and an Emmy-award winning sports anchor to answer this question, which helps to determine our Quarterly Pound-for-Pound (QP4P) Rankings.
Our panel considers each fighter’s skill, ability, longevity, activity level, and their level of competition. Equally important, our panelists take into account how well each boxer would fare against the other fighters on our list.
Rankings as of January 8, 2020 – Click here to read the article breakdown
| Rank | Name | Record | Points | Move |
| 1. | Canelo Alvarez | 53-1-2, 36 KOs | 107 | +2 |
| 2. | Vasiliy Lomachenko | 14-1, 10 KOs | 96 | -1 |
| 3. | Terence Crawford | 36-0, 27 KOs | 92 | -1 |
| 4. | Naoya Inoue | 19-0, 16 KOs | 65 | +1 |
| 5. | Aleksandr Usyk | 17-0, 13 KOs | 61 | -1 |
| 6. | Errol Spence Jr. | 26-0, 21 KOs | 47 | – |
| 7. | Juan Francisco Estrada | 40-3, 27 KOs | 31 | +1 |
| 8. | Gennadiy Golovkin | 40-1-1, 35 KOs | 23 | -1 |
| Manny Pacquiao | 62-7-2, 39 KOs | 23 | – | |
| 10. | Tyson Fury | 29-0-1, 20 KOs | 15 | – |
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The movement column indicates whether and how (+/–) much a fighter has moved up or down in RBR’s pound-for-pound (P4P) rankings since our previous list was published. Empty cells reflect no movement in the P4P list. More information on our weighted scoring system can be found here.
RBR Pound-for-Pound Panel
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