Following his impressive win over American boxer Keith Thurman last July, Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao made it to the top 10 best fighters in the world.
In the recent ranking by US-based television sports channel ESPN, the 40-year-old Pacquiao, the world’s only eight-division world champion, is the ninth-best boxer in the world.
Pacquiao, who holds 62W-7L-2D, 39 KOs record, continued to defy father time as he is coming off a split decision win over Thurman.
ESPN’s ranking installed Ukranian boxer Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10KOs) at the number one spot followed by American fighter Terrence Crawford (35-0, 26KOs).
Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez (52-1-2,35KOs) is at third, while getting the fourth spot is Japan’s Naoya Inoue (18-0,16KOs).
Another American boxer made it to the top 10 with Errol Spence Jr. (25-0, 21KOs) sitting at fifth spot.
Lomachenko’s compatriot Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12KOs) is at sixth spot followed by Gennady Golovkin (39-1-1, 35KOs) of Kazakhstan.
Mexican Juan Fancisco Estrada (39-3, 26KOs) sits at number eight, while Mikey Garcia (39-1, 30KOs), also from Mexico, rounds up the top 10.
The panel which made the ranking is composed of THE PANEL: Dan Rafael, Andre Ward, Timothy Bradley Jr., Joe Tessitore, Teddy Atlas, Steve Kim, Bernardo Pilatti, Eric Raskin, Nick Parkinson, Nigel Collins, Charles Moynihan, Claudia Trejos and Salvador Rodriguez.
The rankings are based on a descending points system, with a first-place vote receiving 10 points, a second-place vote receiving nine points and so on. A tie goes to the fighter with the highest ranking, and then with the most votes at that ranking.
