One of the easiest ways to get into a debate on Boxing is to try and rank the sport’s top practitioners on a pound-for-pound basis. Everyone’s got an opinion and there’s no way to definitely determine who’s right and who’s wrong. Sure Wladimir Klitschko would defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr. if they fought each other -- Klitschko outweighs Mayweather by nearly 100 pounds! But if - and this is the big if – Klitschko and Mayweather were in the same weight class and were to match their skills against one another in the ring, which fighter would emerge victorious?

Every boxing enthusiast has seen pound-for-pound rankings online and in various magazines. Most of these lists include only ten boxers. Occasionally, you’ll see a pound-for-pound top twenty. Why stop at twenty? In order to provide even more fodder for conversation and debate, here is a pound-for-pound ranking of the top fifty fighters in the world today:

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (154)
2. Andre Ward (168)
3. Manny Pacquiao (147)
4. Gennady Golovkin (160)
5. Guillermo Rigondeaux (122)
6. Juan Manuel Marquez (147)
7. Wladimir Klitschko (Heavy)
8. Timothy Bradley (147)
9. Mikey Garcia (130)
10. Roman Gonzalez (112)
11. Sergey Kovalev (175)
12. Danny Garcia (140)
13. Miguel Cotto (160)
14. Terence Crawford (135)
15. Carl Froch (168)
16. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (154)
17. Juan Francisco Estrada (112)
18. Naoya Inoue (115)
19. Nonito Donaire (126)
20. Leo Santa Cruz (122)
21. Lucas Matthysse (140)
22. Jhonny Gonzalez (126)
23. Abner Mares (126)
24. Adonis Stevenson (175)
25. Marcos Maidana (147)
26. Miguel Vazquez (135)
27. Adrien Broner (140)
28. Sergio Martinez (160)
29. Anselmo Moreno (118)
30. Takashi Uchiyama (130)
31. Evgeny Gradovich (126)
32. Erislandy Lara (154)
33. Keith Thurman (147)
34. Shawn Porter (147)
35. Bernard Hopkins (175)
36. Orlando Salido (126)
37. Lamont Peterson (140)
38. Akira Yaegashi (112)
39. Vasyl Lomachenko (126)
40. Raymundo Beltran (135)
41. Peter Quillen (160)
42. Shinsuke Yamanaka (118)
43. Donnie Nietes (108)
44. Jean Pascal (175)
45. Marco Huck (200)
46. Omar Narvaez (115)
47. Yuriorkis Gamboa (135)
48. Amir Khan (147)
49. Demetrius Andrade (154)
50. Simpiwe Vetyeka (126)

Outside the Top 50:

51. Chris Algieri (140)
52. Mikkel Kessler (168)
53. Ruslan Provodnikov (140)
54. Katsunari Takayama (105)
55. Nicholas Walters (126)
56. Rances Barthelemy (130)
57. Devon Alexander (147)
58. Brian Viloria (112)
59. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (160)
60. Mike Alvarado (140)
61. Robert Guerrero (147)
62. Brandon Rios (140)

No doubt your top Fifty would look much different. Maybe entirely different! Tell us what you think of our rankings and share your thoughts on the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world today.