Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Canelo’s Loss Is Crawford’s Gain

There’s a new No. 1 after Canelo Álvarez’s stunning defeat over the weekend.

Well … this just got interesting.

For months, boxing pound-for-pound lists—including this one—have been fairly stable. Canelo Álvarez, a four-division titleholder, has been cemented at the top. Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue, Oleksandr Usyk and Errol Spence Jr., in some order, filled in the slots beneath him. There would be some movement toward the bottom, but most lists didn’t spark much debate.

All that changed Saturday, when Dmitry Bivol, the undefeated (and largely unknown) light heavyweight titleholder knocked off Álvarez, defeating Canelo by unanimous decision.