Tyson Fury did sufficient on the scorecards to defeat Francis Ngannou by cut up determination, however his disappointing efficiency, which included being knocked down in Spherical 3, pressured our panelists to drop him 4 spots to No. 10 within the newest ESPN pound-for-pound rankings.
Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) fought Ngannou (0-1 in boxing) in a 10-round boxing match on Oct. 28 in Saudi Arabia, however his WBC world title wasn’t on the road. Fury’s scheduled battle in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk on Dec. 23, to unify all 4 main heavyweight titles, has since been pushed to February, because of small cuts suffered by Fury on his brow and outdoors the left eye.
“Tyson Fury regarded the worst he has regarded on this current championship run in opposition to an enormous robust novice in Francis Ngannou,” ESPN boxing commentator Joe Tessitore mentioned about dropping Fury from his top-10 checklist. “I cannot justify this model of Fury within the P4P checklist.”
Boxing coach and commentator Teddy Atlas agreed, saying that Fury’s lack of preparation and never being prepared has to rely, dropping him three spots to No. 8 on his checklist.
“Though I chalk it up partly to Fury not being mentally ready or conscious of what he was dealing with, Ngannou being significantly better than he or anybody anticipated and an general unhealthy night time for him, there have been nonetheless technical flaws that have been uncovered via all of it,” Atlas mentioned. “And if I’ll be honest and constant in standing by a course of to guage what we decide right here then the efficiency has to matter and he has to a minimum of drop some spots.”
Our panel of Mike Coppinger, Ben Child, Timothy Bradley Jr., Joe Tessitore, Teddy Atlas, Nick Parkinson, Eric Raskin, Michelle Pleasure Phelps, Claudia Trejos, Bernardo Osuna, Eric Woodyard, Crystina Poncher, Bernardo Pilatti, Charles Moynihan, Salvador Rodriguez, Jim Zirolli, Michael Mascaro, Aladdin Freeman, Victor Lopez and Damian Delgado Averhof, shares its votes.
Extra rankings: Divisional rankings and ESPN’s ladies’s pound-for-pound rankings.
Observe: Outcomes are via Nov. 8.
1. TERENCE CRAWFORD     Earlier rating: No. 1
RECORD: 40-0, 31 KOs
DIVISION: Welterweight (undisputed champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (TKO9) Errol Spence Jr., July 29
NEXT FIGHT: TBA
2. NAOYA INOUE  
  Earlier rating: No. 2
RECORD: 25-0, 22 KOs
DIVISION: Junior featherweight (unified champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (TKO8) Stephen Fulton, July 25
NEXT FIGHT: Dec. 26 vs. Marlon Tapales
3. OLEKSANDR USYK     Earlier rating: No. 3
RECORD: 21-0, 14 KOs
DIVISION: Heavyweight (unified champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (TKO9) Daniel Dubois, Aug. 26
NEXT FIGHT: TBA vs. Tyson Fury
4. CANELO ALVAREZ     Earlier rating: No. 4
RECORD: 60-2-2, 39 KOs
DIVISION: Tremendous middleweight (undisputed champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (UD12) Jermell Charlo, Sept. 30
NEXT FIGHT: TBA
5. DMITRY BIVOL     Earlier rating: No. 5
RECORD: 21-0, 11 KOs
DIVISION: Mild heavyweight (champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (UD12) Gilberto Ramirez, Nov. 5
NEXT FIGHT: TBA
6. ARTUR BETERBIEV  
  Earlier rating: No. 7
RECORD: 19-0, 19 KOs
DIVISION: Mild heavyweight (unified champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (TKO8) Anthony Yarde, Jan. 28
NEXT FIGHT: Jan. 13 vs. Callum Smith
7. DEVIN HANEY     Earlier rating: No. 8
RECORD: 30-0, 15 KOs
DIVISION: Light-weight (undisputed champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (UD12) Vasiliy Lomachenko, May 20
NEXT FIGHT: Dec. 9 vs. Regis Prograis
8. SHAKUR STEVENSON     Earlier rating: No. 9
RECORD: 20-0, 10 KOs
DIVISION: Light-weight
LAST FIGHT: W (TKO6) Shuichiro Yoshino, April 8
NEXT FIGHT: Nov. 16 vs. Edwin De Los Santos
9. GERVONTA DAVIS     Earlier rating: No. 10
RECORD: 29-0, 27 KOs
DIVISION: Light-weight
LAST FIGHT: W (KO7) Ryan Garcia, April 22
NEXT FIGHT: TBA
10. TYSON FURY  
  Earlier rating: No. 6
RECORD: 34-0-1, 24 KOs
DIVISION: Heavyweight (champion)
LAST FIGHT: W (SD10) Francis Ngannou, Oct. 28
NEXT FIGHT: TBA vs. Oleksandr Usyk
The components
The rankings are primarily based on a descending factors system, with a first-place vote receiving 10 factors, a second-place vote receiving 9 factors, and so forth. A tie goes to the fighter with the very best rating after which the one with probably the most votes at that rating.
Others receiving votes: Teofimo Lopez Jr. (18), Vasiliy Lomachenko (6), Errol Spence Jr. (5), Emanuel Navarrete (2), Jaron Ennis (1), David Benavidez (1).
How our writers voted
Atlas: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Davis, 5. Lomachenko, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Alvarez, 8. Fury, 9. Haney, 10. Ennis
Bradley: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Beterbiev, 6. Alvarez, 7. Haney, 8. Stevenson, 9. Lopez, 10. Davis
Coppinger: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Alvarez, 6. Haney, 7. Stevenson, 8. Beterbiev, 9. Fury, 10. Davis
Tessitore: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Beterbiev, 5. Bivol, 6. Stevenson, 7. Alvarez, 8. Haney, 9. Lopez, 10. Davis
Parkinson: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Alvarez, 4. Usyk, 5. Beterbiev, 6. Bivol, 7. Davis, 8. Haney, 9. Fury, 10. Stevenson
Raskin: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Bivol, 4. Alvarez, 5. Usyk, 6. Stevenson, 7. Davis, 8. Beterbiev, 9. Lopez, 10. Benavidez
Child: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Alvarez, 4. Usyk, 5. Beterbiev, 6. Haney, 7. Bivol, 8. Stevenson, 9. Fury, 10. Spence
Phelps: 1. Crawford, 2. Alvarez, 3. Inoue, 4. Haney, 5. Usyk, 6. Fury, 7. Bivol, 8. Beterbiev, 9. Spence, 10. Lopez
Trejos: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Alvarez, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Fury, 8. Haney, 9. Stevenson, 10. Davis
Osuna: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Alvarez, 6. Haney, 7. Lopez, 8. Beterbiev, 9. Stevenson, 10. Davis
Rodriguez: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Alvarez, 4. Usyk, 5. Bivol, 6. Fury, 7. Davis, 8. Haney, 9. Beterbiev, 10. Stevenson
Woodyard: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Alvarez, 4. Fury, 5. Davis, 6. Haney, 7. Lopez, 8. Usyk, 9. Stevenson, 10. Spence
Moynihan: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Alvarez, 4. Usyk, 5. Bivol, 6. Haney, 7. Beterbiev, 8. Davis, 9. Fury, 10. Spence
Poncher: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Alvarez, 5. Bivol, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Haney, 8. Stevenson, 9. Davis, 10. Lopez
Pilatti: 1. Inoue, 2. Crawford, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Beterbiev, 6. Davis, 7. Fury, 8. Haney, 9. Stevenson, 10. Navarrete
Zirolli: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Stevenson, 4. Alvarez, 5. Usyk, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Haney, 8. Fury, 9. Bivol, 10. Lopez
Mascaro: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Stevenson, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Davis, 8. Haney, 9. Alvarez, 10. Lopez
Freeman: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Bivol, 5. Stevenson, 6. Alvarez, 7. Haney, 8. Beterbiev, 9. Davis, 10. Navarrete
Lopez: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Alvarez, 5. Bivol, 6. Fury, 7. Davis, 8. Stevenson, 9. Beterbiev, 10. Haney
Delgado Averhof: 1. Crawford, 2. Inoue, 3. Usyk, 4. Alvarez, 5. Bivol, 6. Beterbiev, 7. Haney, 8. Fury, 9. Stevenson, 10. Davis
ESPN specialists’ ballot
First place: Crawford (19), Inoue (1)
Second place: Inoue (18), Crawford (1), Alvarez (1)
Third place: Usyk (12), Alvarez (5), Inoue (1), Bivol (1), Stevenson (1)
Fourth place: Bivol (7), Alvarez (5), Usyk (4), Beterbiev (1), Haney (1), Davis (1), Fury (1)
Fifth place: Bivol (6), Beterbiev (4), Usyk (3), Alvarez (3), Stevenson (2), Davis (1), Lomachenko (1)
Sixth place: Beterbiev (6), Haney (5), Fury (3), Alvarez (2), Stevenson (2), Bivol (1), Davis (1)
Seventh place: Haney (5), Davis (5), Alvarez (2), Bivol (2), Fury (2), Lopez (2), Beterbiev (1), Stevenson (1)
Eighth place: Haney (6), Beterbiev (5), Stevenson (4), Fury (3), Usyk (1), Davis (1)
Ninth place: Stevenson (5), Fury (4), Lopez (3), Beterbiev (2), Davis (2), Alvarez (1), Bivol (1), Haney (1), Spence (1)
tenth place: Davis (6), Lopez (4), Spence (3), Stevenson (2), Navarrete (2), Haney (1), Ennis (1), Benavidez (1)