Boxing P4P Top 10: Does Canelo move back up after dominating Charlo?

A brand new month, a brand new pound-for-pound record!

October 2023

The voters: Scott Christ, Wil Esco, John Hansen, Patrick Stumberg, and Lewis Watson

Others Receiving Votes: Errol Spence Jr 7, Jaron “Boots” Ennis 6, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez 5, Emanuel Navarrete 4, Juan Francisco Estrada 1

Scott Christ

(1) Terence Crawford, (2) Naoya Inoue, (3) Oleksandr Usyk, (4) Dmitry Bivol, (5) Gervonta Davis, (6) Artur Beterbiev, (7) Shakur Stevenson, (8) Devin Haney, (9) Emanuel Navarrete, (10) Kenshiro Teraji

Identical as final month. I used to be giving Canelo an opportunity to return again in, that’s how I went into that combat, however I nonetheless simply don’t see it.

He appeared actually good and I believe the win is stable, however we’re speaking in regards to the elite within the sport. If he does that in opposition to a David Benavidez and never a man who’s been at 154 his total profession and hasn’t fought in a yr and alter, he’ll come again in. However I didn’t see him in earlier than primarily based on latest kind and whereas I believed he was sharp, the competitors was missing in a P4P sense. Jermell Charlo is an effective fighter

Wil Esco

(1) Terence Crawford, (2) Naoya Inoue, (3) Oleksandr Usyk, (4) Dmitry Bivol, (5) Jaron “Boots” Ennis, (6) Canelo Alvarez, (7) Artur Beterbiev, (8) Shakur Stevenson, (9) Devin Haney, (10) Gervonta Davis

I had sufficient foresight to take away Jermell Charlo from my P4P record even earlier than this loss to Canelo, and his efficiency in opposition to Canelo leaves me with a way of vindication.

As for Canelo, it’s exhausting for me to boost or drop his inventory all that a lot contemplating what we noticed over the weekend. Canelo confirmed an improved potential to chop off the ring, however he nonetheless didn’t look fairly like one of the best model I’ve ever seen of him. That’s completely comprehensible. Even nonetheless, Canelo did look loads good all in all. So name it recency bias or what have you ever, however I’m bumping him up one spot, swapping locations with Beterbiev.

John Hansen

(1) Naoya Inoue, (2) Terence Crawford, (3) Oleksandr Usyk, (4) Dmitry Bivol, (5) Artur Beterbiev, (6) Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, (7) Kenshiro Teraji, (8) Errol Spence Jr, (9) Emanuel Navarrete, (10) Gervonta Davis

No adjustments for me this month. I did give it some thought after final weekend, however slotting Canelo in means dropping Tank Davis, and recency can be the one cause to price beating Jermell Charlo over beating Ryan Garcia. If Tank had fought and overwhelmed Rey Vargas or Luis Alberto Lopez as a substitute, then I’d don’t have any drawback dropping him for Canelo.

So a tip of the distressingly-larger-than-when-he-was-younger hat to Canelo for his work final Saturday. However my record stays the identical as September’s.

Patrick Stumberg

(1) Naoya Inoue, (2) Terence Crawford, (3) Oleksandr Usyk, (4) Canelo Alvarez, (5) Dmitry Bivol, (6) Shakur Stevenson, (7) Errol Spence Jr, (8) Artur Beterbiev, (9) Devin Haney, (10) Kenshiro Teraji

September’s featured attraction was Canelo vs Charlo, and whereas Canelo held Charlo to 1 or two fewer rounds than I anticipated, dominating a man 14 lbs smaller than you is type of the other of a P4P achievement in relation to shifting up the record.

Doesn’t appear like there’s any fights with the potential to shake issues up till at the very least November, however issues ought to get attention-grabbing across the finish of the yr. Till then, I get to copy-paste this record to my coronary heart’s content material.

Lewis Watson

(1) Terence Crawford, (2) Naoya Inoue, (3) Oleksandr Usyk, (4) Dmitry Bivol, (5) Artur Beterbiev, (6) Devin Haney, (7) Canelo Alvarez, (8) Kenshiro Teraji, (9) Gervonta Davis, (10) Juan Francisco Estrada

Canelo shot 5 on a par-five in cruising previous Charlo, expectedly. Beating a man who’s shifting up two weight lessons received’t see you make any strikes within the P4P rating (following my interpretation of the legendary record), so the Mexican sticks in at No. 7 with the record not altering a jot.

Kenshiro was good to look at from ringside in Tokyo. He took a number of whacks from a gallant Budler however by no means actually appeared in hassle as his energy ultimately got here by way of. I toyed with bumping him up and few spots, however thought I’d most likely be fan-boying.

Opetaia seems the true deal at cruiserweight and on the attention check may very well be the largest climber under tenth spot. He may nicely be a few massive wins from breaking by way of if he’s matched proper over the following 12 months.