The YouTube star-turned-boxer has never been afraid to have his say on the sport’s elite, and named current WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury at the top of his list. Terrence Crawford and Errol Spence were tied in second, with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol in joint-third.
Oleksandr Usyk was only deemed good enough for fourth place, with Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor sharing fifth spot. But the main talking points to emerge from the list were who didn’t make it, with Canelo joined by the likes of Vasiliy Lomachenko, Juan Estrada, and Claressa Shields also missing out.
Canelo, a multiple world champion over four weight classes, is widely considered one of the best pound for pound fighters of all time. He’s been beaten just twice in 62 fights, first by Floyd Mayweather and then in May by Dimitry Bivol, a bout where he stepped up to light heavyweight level, but that was enough for Paul to justify an exclusion.
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Paul’s list contrasts quite significantly from the acutal pound for pound rankings, where Usyk sits top from Naoya Inoue, Crawford, and Spence Jnr. Canelo is in fifth from Lomachenko.
Bivol, Josh Taylor, Charlo, and Beterbiev make up the top 10, with Fury down in 11th. Paul however argued: “Fury has just been so dominant in the heavyweight division for so long.
“He beats every heavyweight by KO/TKO including Usyk – and there hasn’t been a heavyweight in the history of the sport who hasn’t fallen off eventually and Tyson Fury has remained on top.”
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